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Heading into our Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty appointment throughout this 12 months’s Summer time Video games Fest, it is onerous not to consider the launches that got here earlier than this. Regardless of the entire points that plagued Cyberpunk 2077 at its 2020 launch, it is easy to overlook should you took the prospect to sit down down and play the sport now, on fashionable platforms, and with the entire patches it has obtained so as to add new content material and enhance efficiency throughout the final 3 years. The present state of Cyberpunk 2077 is a sport that CD Projekt Crimson might be really proud to showcase, and by no means has that been extra clear than with how the press periods for the Phantom Liberty enlargement have been dealt with. We had the prospect to spend an hour within the new Dogtown space, and deal with the story involving NUSA President – and the plot that revolves round her tried assassination.

Essentially, Phantom Liberty is extra Cyberpunk; the distinction is that this time round – not solely has the sport had years price of polish via updates, however CD Projekt Crimson has made the choice for the DLC to be unique to current-gen consoles and PC. Accordingly, the scope and scale of the world and the setpieces really feel a step above these from the basegame. 

So far as the expansions’ story is worried – it slots in through the center of the sport, with titular character V counting down the times till they will succumb to the Relic after they’re enticed with the potential of a treatment; with a catch. A brand new wave of change has come to Night time Metropolis, and with the NUSA’s Area Drive One shot down into Dogtown gamers are tasked with securing the President, activating Sleeper Brokers, and exploring the brand new areas of Night time Metropolis.

An hour-long demo is, in fact, nonetheless not sufficient to have the ability to choose the standard of the enlargement forward of time – however we did stroll away from our session impressed at what seems to be the scope for the enlargement. Even inside the opening hours gamers are afforded loads of autonomy for a way they wish to have interaction with the story, and the voice appearing from each newcomers Idris Elba as Solomon Reed and the returning Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand.

Whereas we did not get the prospect to expertise the entire modifications for ourselves, Phantom Liberty will include various gameplay modifications and additions. One factor to notice is that with the upcoming enlargement’s launch, CD Projekt Crimson might be altering the advisable and minimal system necessities for taking part in the sport on PC – chief amongst these modifications is the axing of assist for taking part in the sport on a conventional HDD, requiring using an SSD in some kind.

Going by the system necessities for the sport working RT Overdrive, and the truth that we have been capable of verify that the sport was working on a check system with an RTX 4080 for our demo, it feels protected to imagine that what we managed to play ought to be consultant of what gamers will expertise when working the sport on an equal system themselves. We didn’t have an opportunity to check the enlargement on some other platforms throughout our session.

Cyberpunk 2077 may need had a rocky launch, however CD Projekt Crimson appears assured within the enlargement that they’ve crafted for the sport – and we’re desperate to see extra. We is perhaps heading right into a crowded launch schedule for RPGs, however it looks like there’s by no means been a greater time to check out the sport for your self. Sit up for our additional protection of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, as we get nearer to the enlargement’s September 26 launch date.