E3 2019 is proving to be slightly disappointing this year – the annual gaming convention
has yet to live up to the hype of its previous years, and so far, we haven’t seen a whole
lot of reveals that have gotten gamers really jazzed.
But, despite that, one amazing thing did happen – Keanu Reeves took the stage and single
handedly made us all feel really great about E3 2019.
The superstar actor was announced to be part of the cast of the upcoming and incredibly
hyped CD Projekt Red title Cyberpunk 2077.
While we got to see an awesome glimpse of him in the title – which includes him donning
a prosthetic robotic arm of sorts – the character’s name is Johnny Silverhand, a
character taken directly from the original Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop RPG – we see him
in the trailer rebooting your playable character after you’ve been dumped in a junkyard outside
of the city.
He then invites you to burn the city down alongside him.
The character is a class called rockerboy, which according to the game’s original text,
is this: Rockerboys are the street poets, social consciences
and rebels of the 2000’s.
With the advent of digital porta-studios and garage laser disk mastering, every Rocker
with a message can take it to the street; put it in the record stores, bounce it off
the comsats.
Sometimes, this message isn’t something the Corporations or the Government wants to
hear.
Sometimes what you say is going to get right in the faces of the powerful people who really
run this world.
But you don’t care, because as a Rockerboy, you know it’s your place to challenge authority,
whether in straight-out protest songs that tell it like it is, or just by playing kick-ass
rock n’ roll to get the people away from the TV sets and into the Streets.
You have a proud history as a Rockerboy — Dylan, Springsteen, Who, Elvis, the Stones — the
legions of hardrock heroes who told the truth with screaming guitars and gut-honest lyrics.
In addition to this, a representative for the game told Ploygon this concerning Reeve’s
character – As a musician and someone who believes in
making an impact in the word, someone who has known fame and the way it can lift and
cut, its clear Mr. Reeves can understand Johnny in a way few people can.
We’re beyond excited.
Sounds awesome right?
We can’t wait to know more.
But back to Keanu’s appearance.
Ever since he hit the stage, memes have been abound all over the internet.
The best part?
When someone in the audience shouted out you’re breathtaking!
And Keanu responded with you’re breathtaking, along with you’re all breathtaking.
Oh Keanu.
The internet is already calling this moment the best part of E3 2019, and it’s not hard
to see why.
Keanu also served a very important purpose with his appearance at the Xbox press conference,
sharing with us some information that many have been dying to know – the release date
for cyberpink 2077.
It’ll be hitting stores and consoles on April 16th, 2020.
Get pumped!
In addition to that, the Microsoft conference confirmed something we all figured would be
confirmed – project Scarlett, the next generation Xbox, which will be released in the holiday
season of 2020, along with Halo Infinite – the other gem of the convention that day.
We got to see a teaser trailer for the new title in the Halo franchise that had a lot
of Halo fans hard core geeking out.
We also got news that the rumours about Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin are true – the
author and creator has been working alongside FromSoftware on a new title called Elden Ring
that we got to see a rather mysterious trailer for.
Anywho, what’s your take on E3 so far?
Are you disappointed?
Are you really excited by what’s already been revealed?
Or are you luke warm about the whole thing and still bummed that Playstation and Sony
won’t be making an appearance this year?
Give us a shout in those comments below and let us know your thoughts!
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