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Some details for Cyberpunk 2077 via Destructoid's hands-on impressions:

The demo starts with the character creation menu and it's our first introduction to the many ways that Cyberpunk 2077 is so very big. There's basic character stuff like hair, skin color, and facial attributes. But other tabs paint a deeper picture of who you play as. There's birth record, background check, biometric scan, and biostates. Life events like "death of a sibling" and "ran away from home" are said to influence your demeanor and maybe how others perceive you. The playable protagonist is V, and Cyberpunk 2077 again offers plenty of freedom. V can be either male or female (our demo was played as a woman). Besides all the stuff in the previous paragraph, there are also stat categories for Strength, Constitution, Intelligence, Reflexes, Tech, and Cool. These define who you are, but this role-playing game never asks you to pick a preset class. It's more fluid, and actions throughout the course of the game seemingly eventually funnel you toward class specializations.

The later half of the demo was meant to showcase how different choices can lead to different outcomes. V was tasked with buying a spider bot from a local organization. An encounter outside their compound led to an agent giving V a currency chip with a lot of money on it. This added a non-violent option to acquiring the bot. Without doing that, it would've had to have been guns blazing. But, because this is supposed to be a high-octane showing, things trended toward violence soon thereafter anyway. There were plenty of creative shooting moments, where V used the environment to change the battlefield. Cyberpunk 2077 gives you options in combat too. However, this is where we saw one of the neater violence mechanics: Stealth takedowns result in V jacking into the enemy's head and accessing whatever he knows to her benefit. For instance, we got a floor-by-floor overview of the entire compound and were able to take control of the security system. It pays to be prepared.

https://www.destructoid.com/cyberpun...d-507936.phtml