The first episode of Cyberpunk 2077‘s Night City Wire just wrapped, broadcasting more deets from CD Projekt’s long-awaited open-world hackathon. Almost a yr since we final hit the streets of Night City, we’ve hacked into the 25-minute livestream to dig up a few of Cyberpunk’s mind-invading “braindance” investigations, hands-on gameplay, and an explosive new trailer pieced collectively from the game’s brutal opening hours.
Cutting to the chase, Night City Wire kicked off with a brand new trailer pieced collectively from Cyberpunk’s prologue. A heist is deliberate, a quiet job goes loud, cyborg gangers get gunned down and Keanu Reeves says a foul phrase.
Briefly, we see a bit extra of The Mox, Cyberpunk’s sex worker defence force, alongside the Mad Max-lookin’ Badlands exterior town and an enormous cyborg fascist named Adam Smasher. It’s all very blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, however happily, that trailer wasn’t the one gameplay on present at this time.
Later, we get an prolonged have a look at a “braindance”, an in-universe replay editor that permits you to jack into somebody’s eyeholes to relive their experiences. Here, we hop into the cranium of a hapless ganger as he busts right into a retailer, clears the money register, and in the end finds himself with a bullet within the cranium earlier than managing to make an escape. What’s extra fascinating is what occurs subsequent.
After taking a breather, V hops again in to start out enhancing and analysing the recording, breaking out of the goon’s eyes for full free-camera investigation. The disembodied punk can scrobble backwards and forwards by way of the recording and use environmental cues to unpiece the scene in a fashion that’s paying homage to Tacoma, by the use of the detective imaginative and prescient off these Batman: Arkham games.
While we have been rudely left off the mailing listing for a hands-on preview, former RPS vidbud Alice L joined VG247‘s Alex Donaldson to run through some of the distinct character prologues, open-world structure and incidental Cyberpunk details he discovered through the game’s opening hours.
Besides all that, CD Projekt additionally introduced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, an anime sequence from Promare and Kill La Kill creators Studio Trigger. If all that’s not fairly charged your Cyberpunk batteries for now, fear not. Another episode of Night City Wire ought to hit the airwaves in “just a few weeks”.
Assuming no extra delays, Cyberpunk 2077 is about to launch correct on November 19th.
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