During an interview with EDGE, quest designer Patrick Mills has discussed the will of the development team at CD Projekt RED when it comes to delivering Cyberpunk 2077.
The ambition is pretty high, as the developer says it wants to show other studios how to work on video games for the future, especially for what matters dealing with political themes. It’s a bold statement, even though it’s coming from one of the best out there.
“One of the things about this company has always been we want to show the game industry how to do things. We want to change the game industry. We want to say, ‘We can do things differently, we don’t have to do things that way.’ It’s in our motto: ‘We are rebels’, right?,” Mills said.
“So when you’ve got other studios saying, ‘Oh, no no no, there’s nothing political here’, we say, ‘Yeah, there is.’ It’s not necessarily what you’re expecting, and we’re not going to talk about exactly what we’re going to say- it’s for you to decide when you play it. But Cyberpunk is relevant to today, extremely so.
To pretend like it’s not? Come on. Mike [Pondsmith, Cyberpunk 2020 creator] wouldn’t let us. Mike would throw a fit if we tried to say, ‘This is just about cool hairstyles and cool guns, that’s all.’”
CD Projekt RED is releasing at some point during the course of the PS4 and Xbox One generation.
