CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Project Orion, is a carefully guarded secret, however that hasn’t stopped Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith from teasing some beforehand unknown particulars.
Pondsmith, who labored carefully with CD Projekt on the 30 million-selling Cyberpunk 2077 and was concerned in selling the game forward of its 2020 launch, was requested in regards to the scope of his involvement with Project Orion at the Digital Dragons 2025 conference.
Responding, Pondsmith admitted he wasn’t as concerned this time round, however he does review scripts and had been to CD Projekt to take a look at the continuing work.
“Last week I was wandering around talking to different departments, and seeing what they had, ‘Oh look, this is the new cyberware, what do you think?’ ‘Oh yeah, that’s pretty good, that works here.’ "
And then, the morsel of detail on the sequel: that it features a brand new city in addition to the Night City we know from Cyberpunk 2077. Pondsmith described this new city as “like Chicago gone wrong.”
“I spent a lot of time talking to one of the environment guys, and he was explaining how the new place in Orion, because there’s another city we visit — I’m not telling you any more than that but there’s another city we visit. And Night City is still there. But I remember looking at it and going, yeah I understand the feel you’re going for this, and this really does work. And it doesn’t feel like Blade Runner, it feels more like Chicago gone wrong. I said, ‘Yeah, I can see this working.”
It’s price mentioning right here that Pondsmith’s feedback don’t essentially counsel the Cyberpunk sequel will function a future Chicago, reasonably a metropolis that has the texture of a dystopian model of town. It could be a tackle future Chicago, however that isn’t confirmed based mostly on these feedback.
There can be already some debate about whether or not the Cyberpunk sequel will broaden upon the Night City that’s in Cyberpunk 2077 or function a new model, and the extent to which it’s playable. There are a lot of unknowns, however it appears like there could also be two fleshed out playable cities on this sequel.
While CD Projekt’s focus proper now’s The Witcher 4, it has a new studio set up in Boston to work on Project Orion. Earlier this 12 months, CD Projekt stated 84 of its 707 workers had been engaged on Project Orion, which remains to be within the idea section. Much can change, and we’re not anticipating the game for some time.
There’s additionally a new Cyberpunk animation mission on Netflix following the well-received Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. In the shorter time period, Cyberpunk 2077 is ready to launch on Nintendo Switch 2.
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