It’s been a long seven years since CD Projekt Red dropped their first cinematic teaser for Cyberpunk 2077: a highly ambitious open-world game set in the farflung future. The teaser ended with a rather bold statement: ‘Coming: when it’s ready’. That sentence has aged like milk on a sunny day.
In many ways, Cyberpunk 2077 still delivers. Night City is a jaw-droppingly beautiful place, and every crevice of this world brings about a renewed sense of spectacle. However, playing Cyberpunk 2077 on current-gen (PS4, Xbox One) consoles is a lot like snapping the leg offa table before standing on it. It’s not going to go well for either you or the table.
AT A GLANCE
DEVELOPER CD Projekt Red
PUBLISHER CD Projekt Red
GENRE Action, Adventure, RPG, Open-world
PLATFORM C, PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Stadia
PLAYERS Single
Cyberpunk 2077 puts you in the shoes of V, a mercenary who enters the city from three different places. Whichever life path you choose however, know that they branch towards the same main storyline after the game’s prologue. Each V enters Night City after a brief mission, and never looks back. You’ll have different dialogue options later on depending on whether you’re a Nomad, Street Kid or Corpo - but they never feel consequential, and as such, the entire concept of life paths feel disappointingly hollow.
This story is from the January 2021 edition of HWM Singapore.
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