Cyberpunk 2077 May Feature "Sexualized Tasteless Violence", But Players Won't Be Directly Involved

The release date of Cyberpunk 2077 may have been pushed back to September 2020 from its original slated release in April, but CD Projekt Red's RPG is still one of the biggest games, if not the biggest, coming this year. Since the game features a cyberpunk setting, Night City is expected to be filled with drugs, violence, and sex, but the developer recently promised that it won't be "tasteless".

During a lengthy interview with ONMSFT, Producer John Mamis talked about the content of Cyberpunk 2077, specifically in relation to the strict Australian rating board. He seems to hint that the RPG could have some type of "sexualised violence," but assures that the player character won't be directly involved in that.

"We have a big list of things that could be bad for us in Australia," Mamais said. "The two big things are sexualized violence and drugs with rewards but you can't really do cyberpunk without drugs, right?

"We're not going to water it down but I don't think there are any situations where you can take any real street-named drug and get a reward from it. And there definitely aren't going to be any tasteless sexualized violence either.

"In the real-world, there's lots of sexualized violence, right? It happens. So it might exist in this world but the player will never be involved with something like that."

Mamis went on to explain why the player character won't be involved in sexualized violence in the game.

"It's an art form, or we want it to be an art form, and we want to talk about difficult subjects like that but, yeah, we won't… We're not going to make a game where the player can do those kinds of things. It would be awful and tasteless," he explained.

It seems that CD Projekt Red has created some reasonable boundaries despite their focus on making the Cyberpunk 2077's world true to its cyberpunk roots, and I don't think players' experience in the game will be diminished because of that.

Synopsis:

"Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a megalopolis obsessed with power, glamour and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality. You can customize your character's cyberware, skillset and playstyle, and explore a vast city where the choices you make shape the story and the world around you."

Cyberpunk 2077 is set to release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 17, 2020.

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