Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty almost corrects the past

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Phantom Liberty is Cyberpunk 2077’s final shot to get it right.

Following a much-publicized launch back in 2020 marred by significant bugs and the conspicuous absence of several promised features, developer CD Projekt Red has worked to optimize the game’s performance and realign some of its finer details. Nothing can erase the past, but Phantom Liberty and the accompanying 2.0 patch come pretty damn close.

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Phantom Liberty is an unmistakable bullseye, an explosive spy-thriller adventure that not only opens up a host of opportunities for replayability and rewarding moment-to-moment excitement, but a fitting swan song to protagonist V’s laborious journey from the gutters of Night City to the heights of legend.

The expansion, which becomes available shortly after the “Transmission” gig in Act 2 of the main campaign, opens with V being contacted by Songbird, a mysterious netrunner working for the Federal Intelligence Agency and a right-hand advisor to Rosalind Myers — the president of the New United States of America. The president’s plane has been remotely hijacked and is set to ground in Dogtown, a militarized section of Night City’s Pacifica district ruled by Kurt Hansen, a former Militech soldier turned warlord and his private army of Barghest mercenaries. The deal itself is simple: Rescue Myers from the