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by Andrew Yoon, May 30, 2012 10:35am PDTCD Projekt RED has formally announced their new game. Like The Witcher before it, the team's new project is actually a licensed game. Simply titled Cyberpunk, this new RPG is based on Mike Pondsmith's pen and paper RPG, also called Cyberpunk.
The new game promises to offer many of the traits that made The Witcher so critically acclaimed, including a "realistic and brutal" mature RPG. "We are not making a game for everyone," CD Projekt proudly declared when announcing the game.
Unlike in The Witcher, you'll be able to create your own character in Cyberpunk, with a slew of different classes to choose from. There will also be an arsenal of weapons, upgrades, and implants to choose from--as expected from a cyberpunk RPG.
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CD Projekt RED has formally announced their new game. Like The Witcher before it, the team's new project is actually a licensed game.
CD Projekt RED has formally announced their new game. Like The Witcher before it, the team's new project is actually a licensed game. : Shacknews
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Cyberpunk thematically is a non-rosy near future extrapolated from current cultural and technological trends.
The problem is the first and most monumental works in the genre were written in the eighties - your Neuromancer, Blade Runner, so on. Some people think cyberpunk should look like that forever, so pretty much a future world as imagined from the eighties. Which I don't agree with. I think that's a bit boring. This thing CDPR is making is very much along those lines. But DX is not, DX takes into account stuff that happened up to the year 2000 and compensates for that. I think that's more interesting.
Also, if you think about it, we live in a cyberpunk future right now pretty much. Any third world slum will be a masala of abject poverty, rampant capitalism and modern fashion/mobile phones of the kind you can read about in Neuromancer - hyperstylising a setting like that basically gives you a modern cyberpunk setting, and I'd love to see a game that does that, actually.
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