No matter how you put it, 2020 was the year of capital Cs. Rewind just a bit, and everyone in the video game community was looking forward to the long-overdue release of Cyberpunk 2077. Hell, “looking forward” is an understatement.
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Before rising to prominence with Metal Gear Solid in 1998, game designer Hideo Kojima was involved in multiple noteworthy projects. Snatcher has garnered cult status, being revered as one of the greatest cyberpunk games of all time. But does it truly live up to its status?
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Steam Has Emerged as the Mainstay for Cyberpunk Video Games. Cyberpunk is a genre that I feel always translates well to games. It drips with style and has the versatility to fit into multiple types of games. Cyberpunk games offer both high-octane action and a thoughtful story.
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On the surface, Crysis ain’t cyberpunk. It’s a science-fiction military shooter. It starts with Nomad, a soldier with a super-powered exoskeleton suit, investigating North Korea’s military presence on the fictional Lingshan Islands. Soon he’s trying to stop an alien invasion that started eons ago, before our hairy ancestors dropped from the banana trees they used to call home. You could safely say it’s more War of the Worlds than Johnny Mnemonic.
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Who is Johnny Silverhand? More people have been asking this question since the figure was seen in the popular Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, played by internet treasure Keanu Reeves. This newfound curiosity calls for a revisiting of this enigmatic character’s roots.
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With Cyberpunk 2077 now delayed until November, let’s take a moment to talk about one of the best old-school cyberpunk games of all time: Shadowrun on Sega Genesis. The game is a moderately faithful recreation of the pen & paper Shadowrun game, except with some of its weaker points blissfully altered for sensible gameplay.
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The excitement surrounding Cyberpunk 2077 has steadily risen. Following the monumental success of The Witcher 3 in 2015, the hype reached new heights when CD Projekt Red held its first Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay presentation during E3 2018.
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Did you Enter the Matrix in 2003? If you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably seen The Matrix Trilogy, but have you seen the secret footage embedded in the 2003 video game, Enter the Matrix? Featuring new cinematic sequences, Enter The Matrix tells a tale that runs parallel to The Matrix Reloaded. Are you ready for some Deja Vu?
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By now, everyone’s heard of BioShock However, not everyone might be aware that System Shock 2, released in 1999, was developed by the same studio – Irrational Games – and heavily influenced the ideas later fleshed out in BioShock.
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We’ve dug through Archive.org to bring you early perspective from the creators of Cyberpunk 2077. Up first is the introduction to the Cyberpunk 2077 blog itself from Mateusz Kanik, who at the time was the Cyberpunk 2077 Game Director.