Patrick Mills: Cyberpunk 2077 is "inherently political"

Patrick Mills, quest designer for Cyberpunk 2077, who has also worked on The Witcher 3, used a recent interview in the latest issue of Offical Xbox Magazine to explain the politics of the upcoming sci-fi game, and why they chose the first-person perspective.

According to PC Gamer, Mills had this to say about the game and its political undertones:

"Cyberpunk 2077 is a game about people with power at the top and people at the bottom with none. That power can come from money, hierarchies, technology, and violence. The original Cyberpunk 2020 setting, like the setting of The Witcher stories, was a complex critique of the author's world, and we don't shy away from that in our games. On the contrary, I think it's one of the things that sets us apart [...] Cyberpunk is an inherently political genre and it's an inherently political franchise."

When asked about why the chose to use the first-person perspective in their new RPG, Mills replied:

"There's a lot of things we get from first person, and part of it is being closer to the character and to feel like you're inhabiting that character."