Ontwikkelaar CD Projekt Red was al tijdens de ontwikkeling van The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, bezig met de futuristische open wereld RPG genaamd Cyberpunk 2077. Na de lancering van The Witcher III en met name de Blood and Wine-uitbreiding, ging de studio over naar een zogenaamde ‘Deep Development’ wat betreft Cyberpunk 2077.
Drie jaar later tijdens de Microsoft E3-presentatie toonde CD Projekt Red de allereerste officiële trailer van Cyberpunk 2077. Echter, achter gesloten deuren konden journalisten al een uitgebreide gameplaydemo van Cyberpunk 2077 bekijken. Afgelopen week tijdens de Gamescom was dit weer het geval. De ontwikkelaar toonde dezelfde demo met kleine aanpassingen.
Gisteren hield CD Projekt Red een mysterieuze livestream die wel tien uur lang duurde. Negen uur lang zagen we een data transmission met heel veel witte code. Na het negende uur kregen we een boodschap van CD Projekt Red waarin stond dat er is besloten om de uitgebreide gameplay video openbaar te maken. Maar de ontwikkelaar waarschuwt wel dat alles wat je in de video hieronder ziet, nog veranderbaar is.
Bekijk de waanzinnige gameplay reveal van Cyberpunk 2077 met commentaar van de ontwikkelaar hieronder.
Sorry to have kept you waiting for this for so long!
Did you like what you saw? Because for us, the fact that we’re finally showing you Cyberpunk 2077 is HUGE. Please go to our forums, twitter, facebook, discord, and do tell what you think. Is the game world how you imagined? Do you see what we meant by “immersion” when we talked about CP2077 being an FPP RPG? How does our vision of “cyberpunk by day” make you feel? We really want to know.
Aside from that, we think we owe you a few words of explanation on why we’re showing you this gameplay now, some time after industry professionals and media saw it at E3 and gamescom.
Each time we discussed the idea of showing the game to you (and we discussed this idea a lot), we were ending up in this “we’re not 100% sure” limbo. Why? Because (for most people), when a game dev shows gameplay footage from their game, it means that this is how the game is going to look or play like. It’s not the case here. Cyberpunk 2077 is deep in development. We have a lot of design ideas, a lot of mechanics being playtested, but we don’t know what we’ll end up with at launch. This makes publishing videos like what you just saw risky –we don’t want gamers saying ‘but in that previous video that gun was shooting differently’, or ‘why did you change the interface?’. Change is inherent to game development and there’s a ton of things being modified each day. Our fear was (and kind of still is) that you’ll think what you just saw is how Cyberpunk 2077 will look like 1:1.
What gave us that extra confidence to show you a work in progress game? Good initial feedback from people who are accustomed to see games at various stages of development. What they told us (and they told us they really liked what they saw) gave us the boost we needed to show the current version of Cyberpunk 2077 to the most passionate and insightful audience –you.
So… here’s what Cyberpunk 2077 looks like today (or rather looked like when we recorded the video). We sincerely hope you liked it.
Again, thank you for your patience and all the thoughts you shared with us.
Yours,
CD PROJEKT RED
