Cyberpunk2077: No Wrong Turns, Only Unexpected Paths
As we’re all trembling in pathological expectation for CD Projekt RED’s latest herculean feat, Cyberpunk2077, more and more official info seeps out for our delight.
Until a few months ago, Cyberpunk2077 was a big smoky bag of Keanu Reeves. The purpose and type of the game was not clear at all. Plenty of info is out now, so this article might prove useful to those who are interested in the game and are eager to pre-pay the pre-sales of the pre-game when its pre-release will be pre-announced.
One Cyber Hell Of An RPG
Cyberpunk2077 will be played mostly in first person, so tough luck for you pervs building female characters just to admire their bouncing derrières. Cutscenes will be in third person, though. The REDengine 4 seems excellent at rendering the smokey, tense atmosphere of a dystopian, near future world, completely dominated by avid corporates. It will always be dark, even in the morning, and people will always look gloomy and be distrusting of each other. A bleak and overly technological world where the fittest survives, and everyone else will suck deadbolts. Sounds crunchy, doesn’t it?
Choose Your Path, And Let The Future Choose You
One of the most interesting features of the game is the lifepath character building system. Classes are so WoW-last year! We want a background for our digital alter ego, a very tough and bleak one to state our badassness in a world where bullets are dispensed as Cadbury Fingers for the slightest argument. Your character has a very dark past, so forget falling in love with him or her and aim for a milder person with no homicide intent instead.
Three main life paths will be available at start of Cyberpunk2077, and there will probably be more with DLCs and expansions in the future.
Corpo Lifepath
You were born in a wealthy family and you gnawed your way through the corporate jungle, and then broke free of it. You witnessed how rotten humans can be, you saw how wealth can buy one’s life or death, you saw how gigantic commercial institutions can meddle with the fate of the world with the excuse of life threatening viruses and… Oh, no, that is another story. How gigantic commercial institutions can influence what’s left of the governments, public forces and how even the filthiest of crimes can be waived if there’s enough cryptospondoolies to pay for it.
Nomad Lifepath
Saying the word “gipsy” is semi-officially considered a crime in 2020, so it will probably get you horribly murdered in 2077. Nomad it is then. You spent your painful childhood in the badlands, roaming through dry, toxic, lifeless roads. Hokuto No Ken-like wild tribes pillage the pillageable, steal the stealable, grab the grabbable. And they brought you up. Life was never easy for you, but you will find a silent ally (or something pretty similar to that) in those who shared your same past. Also, your knowledge of vehicles will be higher than average, and you’ll be able to mix organic and non-organic substances to obtain several effects.
Street Kid Lifepath
You’re that street urchin everyone hates, and it’s mutual. You grew up in Night City, a metropolis with millions of people, all hostile. And you know how to deal with them, using good, bad and worse manners. You’ll be quite good at overcoming financial difficulties by using not exactly licit escamotages and hacking wizardries. You’ll know how things work in gangs, as you were part of them, and joining them will immediately put you in a place of relative safety and loyalty with your compàdres.
One Path To Rule Them All
The greatest thing about lifepaths is that they define who you were until the game starts, not who you will be. Obviously, interaction with people related to your life path will have several specific effects, but in substance you can shape your character, skills and whatnot to your complete liking. The choice of CD Projekt RED of making the game mostly playable in first person is not to create another shooter for jumpy, trigger-happy people on perpetual psychotherapy. They managed to make you feel actually involved with the present, the past and the future of your cyber avatar. There will be plenty of fast paced action if you want, including very cinematic car chases and such, but you’ll also be able to go around issues in a very subtle, sneaky and still very lethal way, if this is how you want to play.
One More Thing…
And here comes the money shot. Keanu Reeves will interact with you not only depending on your lifepath, but also on how you’ll behave during the game. Or I should say Johnny Silverhand, the leather-clad corporate war veteran everyone knows and phearrs. And he’s in your head, Joker style. Mentoring and advising you as your story unfolds. Aside from the obvious celebrity bait, this is one of the most interesting features in the game. To have a samurai cyborg always talking in your head, without having to take illegal drugs, that is.
The murderous and cybernetically-enhanced Mr Miyagi we always wished for.
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