"The team is divided right now…There's a sizable team still working on [The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine], but an even more sizable team has actually been working on Cyberpunk for quite a while right now." That’s a quote from Michal Nowakowski, CD Projekt SVP of business and publishing following a rash of wins for Witcher 3 at the Golden Joystick Awards.
Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t really a new idea, CD Projekt RED announced it all the way back in 2012 as an open-world sci-fi RPG, which sounds amazing, but four years later is still vague on details. However, team members such as visual artist Jose Teixeira have gone on record proselytizing the scale and style of the ambitious project, “I’m very much looking forward to it. It’s going to be a challenge. Our ambitions and expectations about the amount of visual information onscreen at any given time is going to be pretty brutal.”
Cyberpunk 2077 also hopes to surpass the 200+ hours of The Witcher 3, an impressive feat if it can be pulled off. Also, with games like Deus Ex flourishing, it’ll be great to see more solid entries into the cyberpunk genre, especially an open-world RPG approach.
