Cyberpunk 2077's 48-minute gameplay demo finally revealed to the public
After a cryptic pre-stream, the world finally gets a look at the upcoming open-world RPG.
It turns out the cryptic pre-stream on the official CD Projekt Red Twitch channel was leading up to the reveal of a 48-minute gameplay demo for Cyberpunk 2077 that has previously only been shown behind closed doors. The demo is from Gamescom 2018 and includes a few changes from the E3 2018 demo.
After the livestream, the CD Projekt Red team sent out this message from the game director for Cyberpunk 2077:
“What we’re releasing today was recorded from a game deep in development.” — says Adam Badowski, Cyberpunk 2077 Game Director and CD PROJEKT RED Head of Studio. “Since many of the assets and mechanics in the current version of Cyberpunk 2077 are most likely to be modified, we initially decided to show this gameplay only to media. Elements like gunplay (both in terms of visuals and how RPG stats influence it), netrunning, car physics, or the game’s UI — everything’s pretty much still in the playtest phase and we felt uneasy about publicly committing to any particular design. Animation glitches, work-in-progress character facial expressions, early versions of locations — all this made us hesitant to release what you’re about to see.”
“However, we are also well aware that many of you want to see what the media saw.” — adds Badowski. “Although this is probably not the same game you’ll see on your screen when we launch, we still decided to share this 48-minute video with you. This is how Cyberpunk 2077 looks today. Let us know what you think!”
We also learned today that Cyberpunk 2077's current development build is 100% playable from start to finish. There's still a lot of work to be done, but we can see the game was even pretty far along in the gameplay demo above.
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yea man this is amazing
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I'm playing through Der_Witcha 3 for the first time right now so CDPR already have a lot of stock in my book. I may have to pre-order this just to support them, especially if they're releasing DRM-free still.
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This strikes me as a pre-emptive marketing warning to Ubisoft, to not bother making another Deus Ex for years to come; like they are staking out the cyberpunk sub-genre.
I felt no empathy for the main character in this demo, which is the primary attraction of Jensen's DX run, so that's what I'll be looking for in future C2077 info-dumps. This video was filled with details on gadgets & weapons; good, but I want more 'human interest' which the DX:HR & DX:MD marketing campaigns put a huge effort into (you could argue MD had too much HM marketing).-
Yes, this definitely has a Deus Ex feel to it. And that's a good thing. But you're right, there didn't seem to be any human interest elements in this video, and based on what we saw, I wasn't having any warm and fuzzies towards the PC either . Just a good time girl and her partner trying to make a living in the corporate/street life of the future. But then, it was only a single quest. Hopefully there will be some kind of story, although the narrator seemed to imply quite a large amount of game direction shaping from seemingly minor decisions. It's difficult to build any kind of deep story arc with that kind of freedom to change things. I wonder if the background you choose for yourself during character creation will have any effect on story direction. I also wonder if I'll even be able to play this thing on my current rig. Talk about a lot of NPCs wandering around that city, whew!
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I only played a little of the modern Deus Ex but it seems to me they could still keep the franchise alive by going all Tom Clancy with it, and make it highly tactical gameplay with a lot of political factions and a plausible real world conspiracy theory bent, like classic Deus Ex, maybe even with a squad.
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Why warn ubisoft?
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It is ridiculously early to start talking about how the game portrays characters in game.
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I don't like the voice acting. It's all trying a little too hard to be techno cool.
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Having finished the demo, it wasn't all so bad, but I do think the sound design is underwhelming. The voice acting, the car engine, the guns, even the ambient city noise is all a bit flat. It's my only complaint, really.
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That's cyberpunk. One of my favorite things about it is the dumb names for everything.
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I want to end up looking like Scud The Disposable Assassin, but I can't decide how to start out. I'm leaning towards classic Frank Castle as drawn by Tim Bradstreet. https://www.allposters.com/-st/Tim-Bradstreet-Posters_c62003_.htm
It's actually difficult to pick a single one of these... http://www.photobucket.com/gallery/user/Damaged88/media/cGF0aDovdWRfcHVuX2NhcmRfYXZlbmdlcnMuanBn/ -
Nerd.
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This game looks so fucking rad.
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Oh man this looks goood. It’s out for switch on day one right lol I’ll play it on PC but these days I prefer the couch because I’m maximum lazy :(
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I want to play this video game.
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Bethesda has their work cut out for them
