Phantom Liberty is CD Projekt RED's masterpiece. Not only is Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty graphically easily three generations ahead of the entire industry and redefines how we experience video games with pathtracing, it's also written even more thrillingly and staged even more explosively. Anyone who doesn't enjoy this several times in different play styles has never loved video games. Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion is a reminder of how incredibly explosive gaming has become – and the perfection with which CD Projekt RED manages to involve its actors. When Idris Elba is on a train out of Dogtown, joking with Songbird about how they really need to eat that one famous burrito of his together sometime, and there's such an eerie silence to the flirtation – the nervous looks of the head hacker because she's about to betray him – these are moments that feel like they'd belong in House of Cards or 24.

Idris Elba, who stars in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, sees a future where films and games converge.

After dozens of stories, we're just about wrapped with our coverage of Summer Game Fest 2023. Following the cancellation of E3 back in March, we had a smaller, stripped-back experience at SGF. It began... before it all began, with Sony holding its own PlayStation Showcase livestream on May 24th. It was a pretty packed show, featuring Bungie's Marathon, Haven's Fairgame$, a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, more info on Final Fantasy XVI and Spider-Man 2, and a release date for Alan Wake II. There was also the Project Q handheld streaming device.

Only the neon-colored OLED walls remind us that this was once a district of Pacifica, the Dubai Night City, a luxury oasis that ran out of money in the corporate war. We stand on high scaffolding that was supposed to be a sports stadium. We look up – rockets scream towards a plane, it goes down, literally whizzing over our heads before crashing with a thunderous explosion. But this isn't just any plane, it's Space Force One, the government plane of President Myers of the New United States of America in Cyberpunk 2077's hotly anticipated Phantom Liberty expansion. This article was translated from German to English, and originally appeared on pcwelt.de.