What is Cyberpunk 2077

Today, when people have not taken off their blinkers for video games, a major production game has just been launched. And soon it has appeared in various social media headlines. It has strong sense of technology, shocking plot, and advanced world view.It requires a very good computer or game console if you want to play it. These elements make it seems that all players who have already entered the cyberpunk world have boarded the high-speed train to the future, leaving others behind for a century. 

A Polish game developer produced the role-playing game and named  it as “Cyberpunk 2077”. The main scene of the game is a futuristic city called “Night City”. Although it is high-tech, it also has the dark side of modern society, drugs, violence, poverty, dictatorship, people’s greed, selfishness and narrow-mindedness have also intensified. The protagonist grew up on the streets, looking for ways to grow up in a city full of filth and evil.

The story of “Cyberpunk 2077” is designed in the future, but society has become more declining and barbaric. People have a way of entertainment: super dreams. Super dreams are very cheap, but they can allow one person to experience the lives and moods of other people. When this type of entertainment is for the public, a novel vision arouses people’s dark thoughts. Some people use superdreams to feel curiosity beyond the limits of the body and even to engage in aberrant behavior in order to satisfy their desires. 

The rapid development of technology, social ideological changes, and inner struggles of small characters. This game perfectly fits the definition of cyberpunk literature by science fiction writer Lawrence Pulson.

Classic cyberpunk characters are alienated loners. They live on the margins of social groups, a future filled with a dystopian atmosphere, daily life is affected by drastically changing of technology, word covering universal computerized information, and invasive human transformation.

Cyberpunk literature is full of strong dystopian and pessimistic color. They usually put their perspective on nobody who are at the bottom of the era of highly advanced technology of the future, describe the decay of society and the degeneration of human nature under the appearance of the peaceful and heyday. To make pessimistic predictions about the future. Bu heroes with hopes will be born also in this kind of dark corner.