Given Phantom Liberty’s superspy theme, I expected, nay, demanded a good high-society shindig infiltration level, and Cyberpunk 2077’s first and only expansion pack delivered. The centerpiece of the soiree mission was a long, tense dialog puzzle where I had to earn the trust of a pair of deliciously awful French twins while playing high stakes roulette. I had to engage, provoke, and eventually befriend the international con artists all while I watched my funds provided by the FIA (Cyberpunk future CIA) dwindle away. Shoulda bet on black. At the last minute I chose a particularly inflammatory and insulting dialog option and my handler pre-emptively chewed me out over the radio, but the little freaks absolutely ate it up. Maybe I am cut out for this superspy stuff.
Phantom Liberty is an extra-refined bite of Cyberpunk 2077 – an expansion pack’s expansion pack.
It doesn’t reinvent the game as a whole, but it’s a fantastic final outing for V and Night City, as well as one of the best individual stories CD Projekt Red has told to date.