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CYBERPUNK 2077
HERE'S YOUR FUTURE
BY MICHAEL GOROFF

he lead-up to CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 has been one of the strangest in gaming history. The Polish studio
first announced the game over half a decade
ago, before it even released The Witcher 3: Wild
Hunt-the game that turned CDPR into one
of the biggest studios in the world seemingly overnight. Since then, Cyberpunk 2077
weathered sweeping design changes, actual
cyber-theft, and no shortage of controversy to
become one of the most anticipated games
of all time. We're talking on the level of a new
Rockstar or Zelda game.
There seems to be something in the air
around the game's release. 2020 is the year
that Mike Pondsmith's 1990 Cyberpunk
tabletop RPG took place. Funnily enough,

three decades later, 2020 is also the year that
Cyberpunk 2077 is launching. The future is
now-and thankfully it isn't as completely dire
as Pondsmith predicted, but there's a kernel
of truth in all the radioactivity and corporate
power. Pondsmith actually worked pretty
closely with CD Projekt Red to make sure that
2077's version of Night City makes sense within
the series' overarching universe.
You don't have to have sat around a table
reading off charts to play Cyberpunk 2077.
This is a wholly original storyline starring a
mercenary named V who lives and works in
Night City, where everyone is cybernetically
enhanced, economic disparity has turned
several burroughs into warzones, and corporations own everything. One day V accepts a job

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PUBLISHER CD PROJEK T
DE VELOPER CD PROJEK T RED
PL ATFORMS XBOX ONE, P S 4, PC
RELE A SE DATE 04.16.2020

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