Forgot password
Enter the email address you used when you joined and we'll send you instructions to reset your password.
If you used Apple or Google to create your account, this process will create a password for your existing account.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Reset password instructions sent. If you have an account with us, you will receive an email within a few minutes.
Something went wrong. Try again or contact support if the problem persists.
Category:
News

Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer Released, Meatsacks Rejoice

Teaser trailer of in-development Cyberpunk 2077 released by Polish developers CD Projekt RED.
Image of Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
|

Published: Jan 10, 2013 10:37 pm

This article is over 11 years old and may contain outdated information

Cyberpunk, a prediction of a near future so close they have to keep changing the date. The genre invented by William Gibson that inspired the pen-and-paper RPG is set to become a video game developed by Polish development studio CD Projekt RED, whose previous work includes The Witcher.

Recommended Videos

As the teaser video above shows, Cyberpunk 2077 is set in a near future dystopian society where body augmentation is the height of fashion and its followers happily sacrifice their humanity to sport the latest look.

When Cool Kills

The subject matter is a darkly satirical prediction of the moral and technological direction of our own societies. It is brutal, sassy and could happen in your lifetime. Well, the game almost certainly, but maybe even the prediction. Although the projected date of the age of flying cars and quick-fitting cybernetic augmentations keeps being shifted like a Duke Nukem release date.

The first edition of the pen-and-paper near futurism, published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988, was set in the then distant 2013, so it is deliciously fitting that 2013 is the very year when we are now invited to enjoy a virtual Cyberpunk world set in 2077 (even if it’ll be another couple of years before we actually can).

In a very meta move, CD Projekt RED also embedded a message in the above video, providing more details. In it, they describe the kind of game they plan Cyberpunk 2077 to be: a “story-heavy, nonlinear, open world RPG”.

They also reference an announcement planned for the 5th February, regarding a”fully open world game with an intense story” which is “much closer to completion”. No title was mentioned, but there is popular speculation regarding a Witcher sequel.

The final message gives a release date of “when it’s ready” and a link to the Cyberpunk website for further information as it is released.

BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy

BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy

Source: Kotaku

Post Tag:
cd projekt red
cyberpunk
the witcher
GameSkinny is supported by our audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Learn more about our Affiliate Policy
related content
Author
Image of Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Broken paramedic and coffee-drinking Englishman whose favourite dumb animal is an oxymoron. After over a decade of humping and dumping the fat and the dead, my lower spine did things normally reserved for Rubik's cubes, bringing my career as a medical clinician to an unexpectedly early end. Fortunately, my real passion is in writing and given that I'm now highly qualified in the art of sitting down, I have the time to pursue it. Having blogged about video games (well, mostly EVE Online) for years, I hope to channel my enjoyment of wordcraft and my hobby of gaming into one handy new career that doesn't involve other people's vomit.