The sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in growth on the CD Projekt Purple studios in Boston and Vancouver. The principle purpose for creating the Boston studio was to let CDPR develop Cyberpunk and The Witcher concurrently. Nevertheless, the builders say it can additionally assist make the sport extra authentically American.
How is CD Projekt making the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel extra genuine?
“I believe Cyberpunk is clearly a uniquely American story,” mentioned performing govt producer Dan Hernberg. It’s acquired quite a lot of like, punk vitality, and [the tabletop game] was written by an American, so it simply appears proper to do it in America.” He and different builders mentioned this and extra in a latest episode of the AnsweRED Podcast, as GameSpot reported.
After all, Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CDPR’s principal studio in Wrocław, Poland. Sadly, the European builders ignored a couple of subtler cultural markers, which CDPR needs to repair within the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.
Affiliate sport director Paweł Sasko gave the instance of Cyberpunk 2077’s “manhole debacle.” Whereas many gamers may not have observed, Evening Metropolis’s manhole covers are unusually European for a metropolis in California. Different examples embrace streetlights, the place of rubbish bins, the colour of road indicators, and the design of curbs. “It doesn’t break immersion,” mentioned Sasko, “but it surely’s simply that little factor the place you’re like, ‘Properly, possibly this wasn’t made by individuals who dwell right here or individuals who absolutely perceive all of American tradition.’”
It’s not simply manholes and road indicators, with Sasko additionally discussing issues like motion pictures and music. “I additionally assume that being in America, it permits us to have these cultural touchpoints with the bigger American, you realize, type of affect with Hollywood,” he mentioned. “Clearly, Cyberpunk 2077 passed off in LA, and so there’s simply type of all these cultural touchpoints and issues that we will type of work together with, whether or not that’s from music or story or simply completely different elements of America which are attention-grabbing to discover.”
