Shooting will be a good way to get rid of people, but it’s not Doom—you have other options.
What do we know about Cyberpunk 2077 character creation?
During the 2018 demo, we got a quick peak of the character creation screen. You can customize hair, tattoos, and clothing. It doesn’t look like you can change your character’s bone structure, though—no deep menu of facial feature sliders here, unless that’s changed over the past couple years.
It may have, because something else we didn’t see in 2018 was customizable genitals. According to the ESRB’s rating for Cyberpunk 2077 (which unsurprisingly got an ‘M’), players can “select a gender and customize their character; customization can include depictions of breasts, buttocks, and genitalia, as well as various sizes and combinations of genitals.”
At E3 2019, quest director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz explained to Gamasutra that Cyberpunk’s character creation won’t be limited by gender. “We have put a lot of thought into this. One of the things we want to do in the final game (which we couldn’t show in the demo yet, because as you mentioned it’s a work in progress) is to give the players as many options of customization in the beginning of the game as we can.”
You can also change your stats. There are basics like Strength and Intelligence, but also a ‘Cool’ stat that determines how well you handle stress, which affects weapon accuracy. The full list from what we saw in the demo: Strength, Constitution, Intelligence, Reflexes, Tech, Cool. Notably, there are some important stats from the tabletop Cyberpunk not represented here, like Empathy.
You can also change your backstory, referred to as a Lifepath, choosing from Nomad, Corpo or Street Kid, which each have their own origin story and starting location in the world. Each Lifepath unlocks unique dialogue options that can alter how quests play out, so it’s an important decision to make early on.
However you customize your character, you’re still one specific person: V. Not ‘Vee.’ Just V. You’re a mercenary, and that’s most of what we know so far.
Will there be romance?
As much “romance” as you can find in a cyberpunk future, yes. Like in The Witcher 3, you’ll be able to pursue romance as V. Because Cyberpunk includes character creation, these romance options will be more diverse than they were in The Witcher series.
“There are a lot more options. You know, you’re defining your own character here, which means defining their sexuality any way you want,” quest designer Patrick Mills said in an interview with Game Informer. “With Geralt, you had a character whose sexuality was very well defined by the novels and the short stories and the previous games. But in this one, it’s up to you to decide. We’ve got NPCs that are gay, we’ve got NPCs that are bi, we’ve got NPCs that are straight, because we want them to feel real and that they have preferences as well.”
In June, CDPR said that romantic plot lines will be “similar” in scope and detail to Geralt’s relationships, despite there being more of them. CD Projekt Red clarified to us further: “Romancing is something heavily present in Cyberpunk, and players will be able to form meaningful connections with other characters as well as go for one night stands.”
That’s all fine and good, but unfortunately, you can’t smooch Keanu. “Keanu plays a crucial role in the game, but as for the option to romance him, I don’t believe you can,” level designer Max Pears told VGC at Tokyo Game Show 2019…
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