Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED has revealed that the team has eschewed the option to pick your gender when creating your character in the upcoming sci-fi juggernaut. Speaking with Metro, Marthe Jonkers, the game’s senior concept artist, confirmed that players will be able to freely pick their body type and assign either a male or female-sounding voice instead.
Cyberpunk 2077 Does Away With Gender Options
Jonkers revealed that the team is looking to offer a more inclusions character customisation system, hence why the typical gender option is being given the boot.
With [Cyberpunk 2077] we really want to make a video game that’s really inclusive. Of course, if you tackle certain subjects then you will expect people to have an opinion about it and we respect that. And it’s good that people give us feedback. And our character creation menu, for instance, compared to the last demo we now give you so many more options. For instance, you don’t choose your gender anymore.
You don’t choose, ‘I want to be a female or male character’ you now choose a body type. Because we want you to feel free to create any character you want. So you choose your body type and we have two voices, one that’s male sounding, one is female sounding. You can mix and match. You can just connect them any way you want. And then we have a lot of extra skin tones and tattoos and hairstyles. So we really want to give people the freedom to make their own character and play the way they want to play.
Cyberpunk 2077 is pencilled in for release on April 16, 2020 for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One. The game features an open-world to freely explore, which is denser than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt but not quite as large.
The studio recently confirmed that it’s still looking at the possibility of adding a New Game Plus mode for the game.
Source: Metro