Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot to live up to.
We called its grand E3 2018 reveal “the most mind-blowing demo we’ve ever seen”. Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red’s previous game, earned a prime spot as one of our favourite games of this generation. Witcher 3 actually usurped Deus Ex as my personal favourite game of all time, so CD Projekt Red working on a first-person cyberpunk role-playing game is as close to a ‘dream game’ as I could envision. Add in Keanu Reeves and a star-studded custom soundtrack that includes a banger from Run The Jewels – my favourite musicians of this millennium – and this hype train couldn’t possibly be more stoked. There’s almost no way a game could live up to this level of expectation.
It does. I’m only about a dozen hours in, but so far, Cyberpunk 2077 absolutely nails it in every way. This game is amazing.
LIVING AND DYING IN NIGHT CITY
You play as V in Cyberpunk 2077, a cybernetically enhanced mercenary who winds up hosting the AI ghost of legendary rockstar-turned-terrorist Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) in your brain after a series of thrilling events. But the real star of the game – at least so far – is Night City itself.
Night City is a sprawling, dystopian megacity set somewhere in California. Its dense urban jungle and teeming streets were what wowed us in that first mind-blowing demo. Here’s what my colleague Hayden Dingman said at the time:
“Listen, I’ve played a lot of video games in my life. Almost 30 years of them
