Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is a first-person open-world RPG with FPS elements. The Polish studio CD Projekt RED, which gained international fame thanks to the bestselling Witcher series, is responsible for its creation. The title is based on the license of Cyberpunk 2020 - a role-playing game created in 1990 by Mike Pondsmith.

The action of Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in the year 2077, in a fictional metropolis called Night City located on the northern California coast. It's a dystopian retrofuturism straight out of the 1990s, in which the devastated world is ruled by brutal megacorporations, and the streets are the realm of gangs and the titular cyberpunks - independent rebels living outside the system. Moreover, thanks to technological advances, people commonly modify their bodies with implants.

We play as V, an up-and-coming mercenary (or merceness) building his position in the harsh reality. Once, while fulfilling one of the orders, the protagonist comes into possession of a chip hiding the secret of immortality, which is the object of desire of the most powerful forces in the cyberpunk world. We create the protagonist from scratch, deciding, for example, on gender (interestingly, you can freely combine female and male features), appearance, or character's origin (we have three paths to choose from - nomad, punk or corp - which decide, for example, where we'll start the game and offer additional dialogue options). In the character creator we also set the initial level of the basic five attributes: physique, reflexes, technical skills, intelligence and composure.

The key role in the plot of Cyberpunk 2077 is played by Johnny Silverhand - a feisty rockerboy (in the world of CP2020 this term is used to describe a rocker known for his contacts with the criminal underworld), who died in mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, many years before the action of the game. The protagonist's consciousness has been digitized and recorded on a chip, which V comes into possession of. The fate of the uncompromising star is therefore connected to the protagonist, but this does not necessarily mean that he is his ally - he may, for example, try to take over V's body against his will.