Though it's a joy to just sightsee, Dreamfall Chapters is well worth your time for its story of political subterfuge and inter-dimensional culture clashes.Ī cyberpunk sketch or two likely lurks in the back pages of many a studio portfolio, so sumptuous is the subject matter. The streets are hued in bruised blue and livened with pink paper-lantern-light and the fizz of rainy neon. Stretching from Poland, across Germany to the Netherlands, swallowing France and the Baltic countries, it's a riven land, sutured with Cyberpunk staples. Its setting, Europolis, is – as you may have intuited – a moody slab of European concrete. Developer Red Thread Games gave the game's heroine, Zoë Castillo, capacious pockets of time to wonder the streets. You achieve this through much murder, all the while chivvied along by a psychotic hacker who refers to you as her 'puppy.' All in the name of fun.ĭreamfall Chapters is the conclusion to a rich adventure game saga that began in 1999, with The Longest Journey. You play as a masked vigilante trying to save his kidnapped brother from a shadowy conglomerate. And there’s plenty of that to go around.ĭeveloper Reikon Games' top-down shooter is injected with a little of the same anarchic hatred as Hatred only Ruiner runs on different fuel, casting aside petty provocation for excitement and smarts. It isn't so much dystopic as dyspeptic it's jostling citizens have been spiked with spite, and the entire town is bathed in the red foreglow of bloodshed. Ruiner's East Asian city of Rengkok is a greebled garbage dump, combining classic cyberpunk with a heavy emphasis on industrial pipework and verticality. Here are a few recommendations to tide you over until the game finally drops – hopefully, a little nearer to now than its title suggests.
Developer CD Projekt Red has said the streets of its upcoming RPG are filled with 'cyberenhanced street warriors, tech-savvy netrunners and corporate life-hackers.' And while it sounds as if the Polish studio has drawn inspiration from a visit to Shoreditch, it's alluring all the same. The game's magnetism lies in its buzzing metropolis of Night City. The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 at this year's E3 delivered thrills at such a high bit-rate you may not be able to contain yourself.
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