The best thing about Cyberpunk 2077? Its alleyways and bars
At times Night City can feel a little like concept art, but it s alive and bustling in its dingy alleyways
I’m leaving the Afterlife, a mortuary turned bar that caters to hardened mercs and guns for hire. Passing a couple of augmented dancers suspended in tanks of water, I hear a gangster pleading with a ripperdoc to save his dying buddy. He’s not coming. Outside on the streets, a bunch of garish advertisements bombard my artificial retinas: Mr Whitey’s legal highs, a multi-part TV series called Watson Whore, and a food company trying to sell patrons an “explosion of taste”. A disgruntled man stands next to a cardboard sign, reading, “Got no home, sick kid, and cheating wife. Need booze money ASAP”. Off in the distance, a series of corporate buildings dominate the skyline, a constant reminder of who runs this benighted town.