Review: Cyberpunk 2077 Explores Another Lawless Dystopia

In the game's Phantom Liberty expansion, those who make the laws rarely follow them.

In Cyberpunk 2077, a video game based on the 1988 tabletop game Cyberpunk, players assumed the role of V, a technologically modified denizen of Night City, a sprawling West Coast megalopolis populated by outlaws, criminals, and corrupt politicians. Phantom Liberty, an expansion and follow-up to the original game, takes players to Dogtown, a quasi-anarchist society walled off from Night City. It's run by a militia, and laws barely apply.

In the game's opening moments, the president of what remains of the United States crashes into militia territory. V must escort the president to safety while working with a mysterious AI and unraveling a secretive conspiracy that reaches to the top levels of government as well as to influential private military contractors. Both installments paint a dark portrait of a technologically enhanced future in which those who make laws rarely follow them.

Comments

[Beezard]

Stadia going under f’ed me out of being able to play Cyberpunk with anything approaching decent graphics and control. Was sweet while it lasted.

[RC]

Not much of a review...how is the gameplay? World building? Storytelling? Replayability? While I already own Cyberpunk, if I was thinking of buying the game, this blurb would not help me with that decision.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

"those who make the laws rarely follow them." Sounds very true to life.

[CE]

Another lawless dystopia?
Like Oakland, or more like New York?

[AT]

a dark portrait of a technologically enhanced future in which those who make laws rarely follow them.

So, it's a contemporary piece then.

[B G]

Do they inject V with some kind of virus/bomb giving the player 24 hours to get the President out of the area?

Why even re-use "V" from the original game? You're clearly playing as Snake Plisken in this DLC.

[MilikusFlorium]

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