The Twitch feed for CD Projekt Red, the Polish developers behind the Witcher series of role-playing games, is acting a little funny this morning. For more than five hours, it’s been spewing a seemingly endless stream of nonsense — white characters on a black background with no sound at all. Fans on Reddit are convinced that it’s a teaser, and that a public demonstration of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay is on the way. Cyberpunk 2077 was announced way back in 2012, well before the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. More than six years later, CD Projekt made a huge splash at E3 2018, when it showed off a 50-minute gameplay demo behind closed doors. News from the Gamescom convention, held just last week in Germany, indicates that the same demo was shown privately there as well. Even more tantalizing, however, is word that a rough version of the game is now playable start to finish. That aligns with Polygon’s recent interview with the creator of the Cyberpunk universe, … [Read more...] about The Cyberpunk 2077 Twitch feed is acting funny, tune in here
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Jacking in to Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077's showing at this year's E3 was extremely strong. The 50-minute gameplay demo I saw left me hungry for more, but it also left me wondering - just how much of CD Projekt Red's game was pulled from Mike Pondsmith's pen-and-paper role-playing game? In other words: just how much Cyberpunk 2020 is there in Cyberpunk 2077? The short answer is: loads. I've been poring over the core book for Cyberpunk 2020 over the last few weeks and I'm really impressed by how much detail from this world of netrunners, augmentations and super-powerful corporations CD Projekt managed to cram into the game. I've made a couple of videos on the subject, in fact - the first covers how character creation and classes work, and the second covers pretty much all of the Cyberware (augmentation) types that are likely to make an appearance in the finished game. I go into considerably more detail in those videos, so I'd urge to you to give them a watch, but here's a brief overview for those who can't spare … [Read more...] about Jacking in to Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 Animator Discusses Cinematics And Combat
There were a lot of impressive reveals to come out of E3 this year but arguably the best came at the end of the Microsoft press conference when CD Projekt decided to show off a shiny new cinematic trailer for CyberPunk 2077. With the trailer not revealing anything in the way of gameplay, many fans had questions about what the actual game will look and play like. Now it appears that we have a few more details on the immense project. During a closed-door CyberPunk 2077 presentation at E3, members of the press were shown the fabled 50-minute gameplay demo and VG247’s Matt Martin, got the chance to interview the games lead cinematic animator Maciej Pietras. Pietras was more than willing to explain some of the details of the new game, including how the game moves between cinematic moments and gameplay, calling it a “directive scene system”“From my perspective, we’re trying to blend cinematics and gameplay. The way it works is that since … [Read more...] about Cyberpunk 2077 Animator Discusses Cinematics And Combat
Cyberpunk 2077: Everything We Learned About CD Projekt RED’s FPS RPG
Sitting down to watch Cyberpunk 2077 at E3 2018 it was unclear what to expect. Developer CD Projekt Red had only just recently shown the first “footage” of the game and that was in a self-contained trailer. So when the devs said they were simply going to play the game, it was an impressive revelation in itself. The world of Cyberpunk 2077 is dense and packed with detail from top to bottom. Our E3 2018 demo started out in an apartment complex, where a group of thugs were hiding an android woman. Our character, V, infiltrated the apartment with her (V can be female or male) close friend Jackie and made quick work of the thugs via energetic and fast-paced FPS combat.It’s a First Person Shooter It may come as a surprise that CD Projekt Red is working on a first person shooter, but there are still multiple layers of RPG wrapped around the familiar combat style. As V, players will be able to customize their playstyle through a variety of stats, like the Cool stat, and … [Read more...] about Cyberpunk 2077: Everything We Learned About CD Projekt RED’s FPS RPG
CD Projekt explains why it went with first-person for Cyberpunk 2077
At E3, CD Projekt pulled the curtain back on Cyberpunk 2077, its upcoming sci-fi open world game. As it did, one major revelation emerged: Cyberpunk is a first-person role-playing game.Not everyone, it seems, is thrilled at the news. The Witcher 3, CD Projekt's previous game, was of course a third-person adventure. The switch to first-person for Cyberpunk 2077 means the game is in part a first-person shooter, and it's this realisation that seems to have worried some fans of the studio's games.So, why did CD Projekt go with first-person for Cyberpunk 2077? Quest designer Patrick Mills told me there were a few reasons for it. First up, the developers wanted the player to feel like they were in the body of the character they control.In Cyberpunk 2077 you play V, a mercenary who is making their way through Night City on the hunt for the big time. However, you can create your own version of V - male or female - and customise everything from how they look to their backstory. Your version of … [Read more...] about CD Projekt explains why it went with first-person for Cyberpunk 2077