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0 CommentsCyberpunk 2077 co-creator talks about the inspirations behind the game
By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 14, 2013 01.14.13
Mike Pondsmith, co-creator of Cyberpunk 2077, revealed the real-world inspirations behind the game's Night City and thematic choices during a recent video interview with Machinima. Pondsmith is the creator of pen-and-paper role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020, of which CD Projekt is basing 2077. He is contributing to different aspects of the video game's world and mechanics. According to Pondsmith, Cyberpunk is not about saving humanity, but "about saving yourself." "In the Cyberpunk world, I realized real soon it was a world where people had the technology, but it didn't fundamentally change the fact there was a lot of treacherous, nasty behavior, large weapons and a lot of serious danger," said Pondsmith. "The important part in Cyberpunk is just that. It's not the technology. It's the...
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31 CommentsCyberpunk 2077 debut trailer introduces the Psycho Squad
By Griffin McElroy on Jan 10, 2013 01.10.13
Cyberpunk 2077's first official trailer introduces some of the themes players will encounter in CD Projekt Red's upcoming adaptation of the pen-and-paper franchise: Physical augmentation, a bleak cityscape and a good deal of violence. The trailer mainly focuses on still models, depicting a gruesome scene in the streets of Night City, Cyberpunk 2077's setting. A woman has massacred 14 people with blades protruding from her arms after going "psycho," a thoroughly unscientific term for when a human's surgical and substance-based augmentations overcome them, turning them into killing machines. When this happens, a special branch of the police are called in to deal with the situation: the Psycho Squad. "These guys are exceptional, these guys are crack troops," said CD Projekt Red studio...
