Caught In A "Sandstorm" - Cyberpunk 2077 - Part 19

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Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One on 10 December 2020 and will release for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2021. The story takes place in Night City, an open world set in the Cyberpunk universe. Players assume the first-person perspective of a customisable mercenary known as V, who can acquire skills in hacking and machinery with options for melee and ranged combat.

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed using the REDengine 4 by a team of around 500 people, exceeding the number that worked on the studio's previous game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015). CD Projekt launched a new division in Wrocław, Poland, and partnered with Digital Scapes, Nvidia, QLOC, and Jali Research to aid the production. Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith was a consultant, and actor Keanu Reeves has a starring role. The original score was led by Marcin Przybyłowicz, featuring the contributions of several licensed artists.

Cyberpunk 2077 received critical acclaim by critics reviewing the PC version, with praise for its narrative, setting, and graphics, although some gameplay elements, AI limitations, and technical issues received criticism at launch.

Night City is an American megacity in the Free State of North California, controlled by corporations and unassailed by the laws of both country and state. It sees conflict from rampant gang wars and its ruling entities contending for dominance. The city is reliant on robotics for everyday aspects like waste collection, maintenance, and public transportation. Its visual identity is derived from the four eras it underwent—austere Entropism, colourful Kitsch, imposing Neo-Militarism, and opulent Neo-Kitsch. Homelessness abounds but does not preclude cybernetic modification for the poor, giving rise to cosmetic addiction and consequent violence. These threats are dealt with by the armed force known as Psycho Squad. Trauma Team can be employed for rapid medical services. Because of the constant threat of physical harm, all citizens are allowed to openly carry firearms in public.

The game begins with the selection of one of three lifepaths for the player character V (Vincent, played by Gavin Drea, or Valerie, played by Cherami Leigh): Nomad, Streetkid, or Corpo. As a Nomad, V quits their clan and moves to the big city for the first time; as a Streetkid, V comes home to Night City after a few years living elsewhere; and as a Corpo, V is suddenly fired from their job at Arasaka Corporation as a result of their supervisor’s incompetent power play. In the first two lifepaths, V befriends local thug Jackie Welles (Jason Hightower), while in the third, Welles is an old friend. All three lifepaths converge on the same title sequence, a montage of V and Welles’s various adventures with a netrunner, T-Bug.

In 2077, local fixer Dexter DeShawn (Michael-Leon Wooley) hires V and Welles to steal a mysterious biochip known as the Relic from Arasaka Corporation. After they acquire the Relic, the plan goes awry when they become inadvertent witnesses to the murder of the megacorp’s leader, Saburo Arasaka (Masane Tsukayama), at the hands of his treacherous son Yorinobu (Hideo Kimura). The son promptly claims his father had been poisoned and triggers a massive security sweep, in which T-Bug is killed by Arasaka's netrunners. When a firefight breaks out as V and Welles make their escape, Welles is fatally wounded, the Relic's protective case is critically damaged, and V is forced to save the Relic by inserting the biochip into the cyberware in their own head.

DeShawn is furious at the unwanted police attention. He shoots V in the head and leaves them for dead in a landfill. V awakens to find themself haunted by the digital ghost of iconic rock star Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves), who was believed to have died in 2023 during an attempted thermonuclear attack on Arasaka Tower.

V learns from their trusty ripperdoc Viktor Vector (Michael Gregory) that they have only a few weeks of life left. DeShawn’s bullet triggered an irreversible process: nanotech on the biochip brought them back from death, but also began to overwrite their memories and personality with that of Silverhand. Removing the biochip will cause instant death. V must now find a way to stay alive and get Silverhand out of their head.

Through flashback sequences, V learns that in 2023, a brilliant netrunner named Alt Cunningham (Alix Wilton Regan) had created Soulkiller, an artificial intelligence powerful enough to copy netrunners' minds through their neural links.