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The voices echoing from the billboards, and the soaring synths of the stirring Vangelis-inspired soundtrack combine to create a really thrilling sonic landscape. It sounds every bit as good as it looks, and the result is a game that is absolutely drenched in atmosphere. Okay, the city is incredible. We’ve established that. But what do you actually do there? You play as Rania, a newcomer to Nivalus who takes a job with a legally dubious courier company called Cloudpunk. Your job is simple: pick up packages, deliver them, and don’t ask any questions. Ominously, your dispatcher—a crotchety but likeable old guy you know only as Control—tells you that most new drivers don’t make it past the first night. Cloudpunk is a game almost entirely about exploration and conversation. As you make your deliveries you’ll meet a large cast of characters along the way, including shady nightclub owners, hackers, hover car racers, CEOs, cops, and self-aware androids. Nivalus is a city filled with stories, although the quality of the writing and voice acting is pretty uneven. There are some great characters here, though. Huxley is a private detective who speaks like he’s narrating a hard-boiled crime novel, and frustrates Rania with his tortured mixed metaphors. And I love Camus, Rania’s AI companion, who has an infectiously naive, optimistic personality.

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There’s a story to follow too. As Rania makes her deliveries she learns more about Cloudpunk, how the city is run, and the tensions bubbling beneath the surface. And as Control grows to trust you, you’re given more lucrative jobs—including a visit above the clouds to the Spire, where wealthy corporate stooges live and work away from the mass of humanity below. But what really holds Cloudpunk together is the driving. Or is it flying? Your little hover car is a delight to control, with a nice feeling of speed, weight, and momentum. Gliding across those dazzling cityscapes, weaving through traffic, and firing your repulsors to gain altitude feels sensational. And it only gets better as you spend your hard-earned wages on upgrades, including a nifty booster that gives you a short, satisfying surge of speed. There are some light simulation elements too, such as stopping at garages to refuel, or forking out for repairs if you’ve traded paint with a few too many hover buses. But for the most part, Cloudpunk is a pretty easygoing experience. It’s a narrative game first and foremost, more concerned with telling you a story than challenging you. You’re never really in danger. Occasionally you’re forced to park your car and explore parts of the city on foot. Fixed camera angles and slightly floaty character movement mean these sections aren’t as compelling as when you’re in the air.Death Trash

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But there are some nice, light navigation puzzles here, using elevators and walkways to find clients hiding in the dark corners of the crowded city. There are a few fun extras, like an apartment you can decorate, optional missions that reveal more about the city, and even the opportunity to trade your hover car in for a faster model. But the core of the game is navigating the city and meeting the strange people who live there. There’s a faint but noticeable disconnect between some of Cloudpunk’s working parts, as if the city and the hover cars came first, and the rest was grafted on later. But despite this, and some distractingly poor acting in places, I basically love it. Even if the story doesn’t grab you, it’s worth playing just to fly around that wonderful city. And it’s nice playing a cyberpunk game where you’re a regular working stiff, not a corporation-toppling superhacker. Flying cars seem to have become a thing of the past. Where once we were practically promised that we’d one day be soaring above the streets during the morning commute, we’ve now accepted that, yeah, maybe that’s not such a good idea. People can barely drive when they have four wheels on the pavement; putting them hundreds of meters into the air just means they have further to fall when they botch parallel parking. But it was a nice dream.

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Movies like Bladerunner and The Fifth Element offer a tantalizing peek into the air traffic nightmare that is flying cars. Rows of soaring lumps of metal speeding through the air between massive neon-lit skyscrapers. It’s dazzling. It’s an aesthetic we haven’t seen much in video games, so how about a game that is all about it. Cloudpunk is essentially Flying Car: The Game, and it knows it. Rania is a new citizen of Nivalis, a city of towering skyscrapers and cloudy streets, where it never seems to stop raining. She’s run into some financial trouble, so she takes a job as a courier for an elicit delivery company, Cloudpunk. There are two rules at Cloudpunk: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ever ask what’s in the package. Actually, we’re told those are more of guidelines, which is a good thing, because the second rule is never, ever followed. The gameplay loop generally involves going to a location to collect a package, then traveling to its destination. It’s not always so simple, but that’s the core of it. Gameplay is broken up into two modes: flying and walking. You fly your car to a parking space, hop out, and you’re free to hit up the merchants or talk to passersby on the way to your destination.Breathedge

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That may sound rather dull, but it’s helped by the fact that the game is absolutely gorgeous. Not in the traditional sense of pushing polygons, but rather in its aesthetic. The cyberpunk city is well-realized, ripped straight out of Bladerunner. Giant signs glow from monstrous buildings, flying cars zoom around in careful rows, bright lights illuminate windows, the city is drenched in an eternal rain; it’s a visual treat. The city is lively and believable, even with all its fantastical elements. Interestingly, this is all done in a voxel art style, but rather than using it to attempt a lo-fi visual style, it’s quite subtle and blends in well. You barely even notice the chunky cubes unless you get in close. The music is also pretty spot-on, capturing the cyberpunk style quite well. Swelling synth underlines all the driving and drama masterfully. Cloudpunk styles itself as a noir story, but it’s here that it stumbles the hardest. While the lack of a compelling gameplay hook is forgiven by the excellent aesthetic, underneath is a directionless narrative that never takes off. A major part of the issue is that none of the characters are particularly interesting, and some of them are simply annoying, but the game is committed to its world-building, so each one of them will provide you with ample backstory.

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Whether you want to hear it or not. Everyone’s hardships are dumped on you relentlessly, and few of them are worthwhile. Despite all the dialogue, the game doesn’t have much to say. Cyberpunk is usually a platform to examine corporate overreach, the chasmous rich/poor divide, or transhumanism in general. The story makes glimpses of these grander themes, but won’t commit to examining them. Corporations run everything in a corrupt system, but you never see how that’s really affecting people. Rich people lord above poor people, but aside from constant snobbiness, they don’t seem to be making it worse for anyone. Automata are striving for equal rights, but that’s none of your business. The narrative in general is just kind of limp. It lacks any tension, the central antagonist exists mostly in the background, and, as mentioned, few of the characters are very likable. It’s not completely bad — it has its merits — it’s just not very compelling overall. Personally, the higher we flew, the more of a Mega City One vibe we got from the crumbling city of Nivalis. Perhaps that’s down to the distinctly English flavour of the script, the country that is, rather than the language. This also extends to some of the collectibles mentioned, though we’ll spare you the details so you can find them yourself.

Cloudpunk came out on PS4 back in October 2020 and somehow entirely passed this reviewer by for whatever reason. Perhaps it was due to the usual rush of releases around that time or limited marketing budget. Though we recall the games release slate felt rather barren while the industry held its breath and waited for the PS5 to launch, Ray’s The Dead being our focus at the time. At any rate, what a gem we missed back then. The voxel graphics do a great job, even on a standard 1080p set that this reviewer was stuck with a couple of days while our usual set was packed for a move. Playing Cloudpunk‘s PS5 iteration on our 4k set was nothing short of revelatory. The screenshots give you some idea of how good looking this game is. In motion it is often nothing short of spectacular. Your main contact is a cranky controller at Cloudpunk HQ, he sends you the various missions as well as filling in some of the background lore regards the almost deity-like chief antagonist. That being the AI construct CORA. We got a bit of an Otis from Dead Rising vibe, only slightly less hectoring than him thankfully. Your name is Rania. This is your first night working for Cloudpunk, the semi-legal delivery company based in the sprawling city of Nivalis. You go everywhere, from the Marrow below to the spires that pierce the grey clouds high above before scraping the edge of the troposphere. No delivery job is too dangerous, and no one is faster than a Cloudpunk driver.

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At points in the story you’ll have binary choices to make. They’re generally clearly the right or wrong thing to do in most instances, though on occasion the outcome will be a little more ambiguous. The core gameplay loop is get mission, fly to NPC, take item to destination. This isn’t quite Crazy Taxi as unlike Sega’s glorious yet ultimately shallow coin-op, you actually have to disembark your vehicle on a regular basis. The downside of this is that the minimap preview in your HUD isn’t always the clearest and unless you get lucky and fly over a parking stand or lot, you’ll have to resort to viewing the map proper to find a landing zone. More often than not you’ll find the objective you need and end up a fair distance away when you actually end up parked. It’s a bit annoying at times, especially when you have to negotiate all manner of catwalks and elevators to get to your destination. You can switch to a first person view while on foot if you wish, but we found it to be a slight hindrance. The newly added on consoles in-HOVA view rather than chase cam is great fun, but perhaps a little disorientating if you use it before you’ve got used to the controls. While you’re on foot you can pick up collectibles and trade items, highlighted in white and blue on the minimap respectively. The collectibles include instruments and obsolete games software, whereas the trade items are mostly junk. On occasion you can repair elevator or similar, so it’s worth keeping a couple on hand.Starmancer

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