Developer: CD Projekt RED
Publisher: TBA
Genre: Mature Role-Playing
Platforms: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Price: TBA
First Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer Shows Cyber-Rampage
CD Projekt RED studio has released a brand new CG teaser trailer for their
upcoming game, “Cyberpunk 2077”. The trailer shows a woman going on a
rampage due to the amount of cybermodifications in her body.
The Night City police try to intervenew ith the help of a member
of an elite police called Psychosquad.
Watch the video on YouTube:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99qJGrPNLs]
“The teaser shows how the Psycho Squad might acquire a new member.
The Psycho Squad specializes in combating “psychos” – individuals
who overuse implants and substances that boost or otherwise alter
the human body. There comes a point when they overdose
on these innovations, and their bodies start to rebel against
their biological body parts as well as against all things
organic around them. Simply put, they start
killing people, who they now derisively call ‘meatbags.’
When a psycho goes on the rampage, strange things can happen.
There’s going to be a lot of carnage, so the psycho might be
taken down by regular police, but they’re not always able to
get the job done. When things spin out of control, they call in
MAX-TAC (Maximum Force Tactical Division), popularly called the
‘Psycho Squad’. And these guys are exceptional, these guys are
crack troops. The fact that they’re proud of that name tells you
a bit about their mindset. They wear a badge with their
official emblem on their right sleeve, but their left is
reserved for their unofficial Psycho Squad emblem. It’s primitively
made and the image itself is on the
crude side of things. It’s not unlike a badge special force
operators might make and wear to distinguish themselves from
the ranks of grunts in any theatre of war,” says
Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt RED studio.
The creators promise that “Cyberpunk 2077” will be true to
the essence of the cyberpunk genre. Players will be thrown into
the dark future of the year 2077 and into a world where advanced
technologies have become both the salvation and the
curse of humanity. A multi-thread, nonlinear story designed
for mature players (a CD Projekt RED trademark) will take place
in the sprawling metropolis of Night City and
its surroundings. Players will have a chance to freely roam
the open-world environment and visit places well known from
the pen-and-paper RPG “Cyberpunk 2020®”, including a combat zone
completely taken over by gangs, the legendary Afterlife joint and
the nostalgic Forlorn Hope. The society of Cyberpunk 2077: We didn’t
get rid of our problems; we multiplied them. CD Projekt RED reveals
more details about the setting of its upcoming RPG.
The world of Cyberpunk 2077 presents a grim vision of the future.
Tech advancement went hand in hand with the decay of society.
Body augmentations invented to serve society simply multiplied the
problems, and sometimes lead to mayhem on the streets.
New inventions led to addictions and poverty became an even
larger problem. In Cyberpunk 2077, the player will be thrown
into a dark future. The metropolis of Night City is a stage set
to tell the tale of one individual, raised on the streets, who
tries to lift himself up from the gutter and find a way to survive
amongst boostergangs and megacorporations in a city of filth and sin.
Drugs, violence, poverty and exclusion haven’t disappeared by 2077,
as people stayed they were for centuries – greedy, closed-minded and weak.
But not only ghosts of the past trouble mankind, but new issues have appeared.
Psychos go on rampages and the streets are filled with junkies addicted to a new
form of entertainment – the braindance, a cheap way to experience the emotions and
stimuli of someone else, someone living a more exciting life.
Braindances are digital recordings of a person’sexperience. The viewer can stream
a braindance directly into his neural system via
special brain augmentations, called a BD player. Braindances allow the viewer to
experience all brain processes registered, including emotions, muscle movements and
all stimuli perceived by the recording person. The range of themes of these recordings
varies from simple braindances made by megacorporations, which e.g. allow the
viewer to feel the full experience of an explorer with all its thrills, sweats, smells, views,
sounds and the real feeling of curiosity that pushes men to go beyond the horizon against
fear and physical weakness. But there are also more controversial sides of braindance,
because some recordings are created illegally in the underground. Entering the mind of a
serial killer means not only seeing the monstrosity he performs, but also living his lust to kill
and fulfillment. You haven’t experienced the latest New Hollywood recording? You’re nobody!
The streets live with braindances, everyone just got crazy and wants to be a part of this new
entertainment fad. Some people push it even too far and they cannot stop living other people’s lives.
If you’re not linked to a braindance right now, you are probably
discussing what happened to you during your last session. Of course,
just like every great new cultural movement, BDs have people who criticize them.
