CD Projekt RED har formået at skabe en forholdsvis massiv hype omkring deres kommende sci-fi-titel Cyberpunk 2077, og meget tyder på, at de har været meget ambitiøse fra start.
Det er måske derfor, at de overhovedet har fået lov til at arbejde med Cyberpunk-franchisen, som originalt er et pen-and-paper rollespil. Designeren bag det originale brætspil, Mike Pondsmith, kan nemlig fortælle i et interview med VGS, at han i flere år har forsøgt at få nogen til at lave et videospil i det samme univers, men at det aldrig blev til noget, fordi udviklere og udgivere ikke synes at være interesseret nok i universet.
"That is why we went with them," fortæller Mike Pondsmith. "This game has been optioned for years to many, many different studios. But what I saw in CD Projekt was that they really cared about it and the things that were important to us were important to them. So I knew it was in good hands."
Han fortsatte med at beskrive CD Projekt REDs passion: "CDPR are fans: they play the [pen and paper] game. Many of them grew up playing the game. So this is like a bunch of guys who watched the Star Wars movies as kids and then got a chance to make a Star Wars game: they would do the best damn job they could."