The sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in growth on the CD Projekt Crimson studios in Boston and Vancouver. The principle cause for creating the Boston studio was to let CDPR develop Cyberpunk and The Witcher concurrently. Nevertheless, the builders say it’s going to additionally assist make the sport extra authentically American.
How is CD Projekt making the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel extra genuine?
“I feel Cyberpunk is clearly a uniquely American story,” mentioned performing govt producer Dan Hernberg. It’s acquired a number 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 foremost studio in Wrocław, Poland. Sadly, the European builders missed 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 won’t have observed, Night time Metropolis’s manhole covers are surprisingly European for a metropolis in California. Different examples embody 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, ‘Effectively, perhaps this wasn’t made by individuals who stay right here or individuals who totally perceive all of American tradition.’”
It’s not simply manholes and road indicators, with Sasko additionally discussing issues like films and music. “I additionally assume that being in America, it permits us to have these cultural touchpoints with the bigger American, you already know, type of affect with Hollywood,” he mentioned. “Clearly, Cyberpunk 2077 came about 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 components of America which are fascinating to discover.”