Review: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
It’s been nearly three years since CD Projekt Red first launched Cyberpunk 2077 into the world. And amid all the issues and updates, the question has constantly been whether Cyberpunk is back; whether it can right the course of its failed launch and regain ground in the eyes of those who were fervently anticipating it.
I’m not sure anything could have cleared those original, lofty expectations, but Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty feels like a fitting swan song for a beleaguered yet still captivating RPG.
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty (PC [Reviewed], PS5, Xbox Series X|S)
Developer: CD Projekt Red
Publisher: CD Projekt Red
Released: September 25, 2023
MSRP: $29.99
Phantom Liberty is the one and only expansion CD Projekt Red is putting out for Cyberpunk 2077, and it’s important to note that it arrives just alongside a big 2.0 update. These pieces intersect in important ways. Update 2.0 smoothes over a lot of Cyberpunk 2077’s notable shortcomings. Phantom Liberty injects a flood of new content, through its campaign and new quests, as well as a whole new area in Dogtown.
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty is framed as a spy thriller, and it nails that feeling. A netrunner named Songbird (Christine Minji Chang) contacts V and informs them that they’re with the President of the NUSA, and their ship—Space Force One—is about to crash, right in the middle of the hotbed of Dogtown.
The story essentially juts into the narrative of Cyberpunk 2077, which has up-and-coming mercenary V trying to save themselves from a soul-stealing Relic in their head that’s slowly overwriting their consciousness with dead rockerboy Johnny Silverhand. CDPR justifies the excursion with a simple, albeit effective, dangling carrot: Songbird knows about
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