Just a few days ago we saw some tantalizing new footage of the upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077. Along with learning new details about the game’s various worlds and factions and gameplay systems, we saw more of the mysterious digital ghost Johnny Silverhand played by Keanu Reeves. Keanu. Reeves. Unfortunately, while the game will offers lots of options in terms of gender and sexuality and romance, you can’t actually date Keanu Reeves. At least, that’s what level designer Max Pears told VGC. Maybe it’s because as an apparition inside your head Johnny’s not real, but what are video games if not imaginary kissing? More likely they’re just scared of the sheer power cybersex with Keanu Reeves would unleash. Cowards. John Wick wouldn’t approve. He thinks we’re all breathtaking.
But it’s not all bad news. When the game launches next April look forward to the rich single-player experience you’d expect from the makers of The Witcher. And after launch you can expect more than that. Cyberpunk 2077 will eventually receive some kind of multiplayer mode. CD Projekt Red is recruiting new developers as we speak.
1/2 Until now, the only thing we said about multi was that it was in R&D. As we’re getting closer to launching ‘single player’ Cyberpunk 2077 in Apr. 2020, we’d like to confirm that multiplayer’s in the works! If you feel like lending us your skills apply: https://t.co/QQV6qsuvhk pic.twitter.com/GHbiS5N3DT
— CD PROJEKT RED (@CDPROJEKTRED) September 4, 2019
There are still plenty of exciting video games still in coming in 2019, but frankly our eyes are still set on Cyberpunk 2077 coming in April 2020. That’s what happens when the makers of the Witcher 3 decide to make a sci-fi open-world RPG and cast freaking Keanu Reeves in it. After the game’s big re-reveal last year CD Projekt Red showed off first gameplay in behind closed doors sessions before releasing the footage to the public. And that whole cycle repeated again this year.
Check out this lengthy new gameplay trailer for Cyberpunk 2077.
There’s a point when a big hyped AAA game goes from being flashy pre-rendered trailers to an actual video game. Some look at this as a downgrade since inevitably visuals get more modest and gameplay gets more defined compared the limitless possibilities of your imagination. But to me this just gives me more faith that the dream game in question will actually exist.
Cyberpunk 2077 now seems like a game that actually exists. The gameplay demo is set in Pacifica, a gaudy beach tourist trap turned cyber slum and one of the six main regions in the game. Players navigate a gang war between the Haitian hacker collective the Voodoo Boys and the musclebound bouncers the Animals.
There are multiple ways to achieve this goal, approaches that aren’t super radical compared to games of this type but approaches that seems appreciably expressive here. Go in with brute force, ripping guns out of turrets and beating the Animal leader Sasquatch to death. Or be stealthy and hack into your surroundings to cause chaos without firing a shot. Sounds like a video game to me!
The new trailer also tells us how the internet is integrated into the decidedly 1980s version of a tech-drowned dystopian future. Players travel through cyberspace almost like it’s a religious experience, attempting to communicate with rogue artificial intelligence beyond the Blackwall. To do this though you’ll contend with NetWatch agents trying to maintain order. Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand maybe seems like one of these Blackwall digital ghosts who haunts you through a chip in your head. But of course that’s still a mystery.
Cyberpunk 2077 releases next April. Get ready with the newest version of the Cyberpunk tabletop game and by playing as Keanu Reeves in Metal Gear Solid V.
