Cyberpunk 2077 is already one of the most hotly anticipated games of the year thanks to CD Projekt Red’s show-stealing E3 trailer. Since the event, the studio has revealed more and more about the upcoming title. Although they have yet to show fans any actual gameplay footage, the game sounds to be one of the most ambitious projects of recent years. In a recent interview, Mike Pondsmith, the creator of Cyberpunk 2020, gave fans an idea of the research which the developers have been doing for their new setting; specifically, the Cyberpunk 2077 cyberware.

The Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberware

Speaking in a recent interview with IGN, Mike Pondsmith explained how the team at CD Projekt Red were conducting research for the upcoming game. According to Pondsmith, the team avoided anything futuristic which did not seem “tangibly” connected to reality.

“What I love about the PnP is the reality of it,” he explained; “The fact is that we didn’t just pull the ideas, the concepts, and the technology out of nowhere. We built them on things that we could actually tangibly back in reality. For example, we did cyberware. We sat down with a guy who’s a neurosurgeon, and we said; ‘how do we make this stuff work? How do we implant it? What’s the surgical procedure? What can we get away with?'”

The studio recently teased the cyberware which will feature in the upcoming game. A recent edition of CD Projekt Red’s frame-by-frame blog highlighted the technology and its widespread usage in Night City. Cyberware is likely to play a major role in Cyberpunk 2077. However, without any gameplay footage, fans don’t know exactly how cyberware will work in practice. The studio has yet to announce a release date, or any indication of when fans might see more of the game. A 2019 release is currently looking likely, but is by no means guaranteed.