5 Soviet and Russian tradition allusions in ‘Cyberpunk 2077 ...

The builders of the long-predicted and an awful lot-hyped new laptop online game, Cyberpunk 2077, made by means of the Polish studio CD Projekt crimson, took so an awful lot effort in growing the online game's world that one is tempted to spend hours gaining knowledge of its each aspect. here is precisely what Russian game enthusiasts and gaming media did, and found out a number of surprising allusions to cult Soviet and Russian movies, musicians and bloggers.

1. film: Brother 2

Twitter user @darxtorn found a reference to a film through the super Russian director Alexey Balabanov, "Brother 2", where the leading persona, Danila Bagrov, tells an American villain: "I believe that energy lies in the fact: those who are genuine are superior! examine you: you cheated someone, made some money, but have you ever develop into more desirable?"

These noted traces are observed by the bodyguard of a Russian fixer in a inn in evening metropolis, within the game's Fixer, Merc, Soldier, secret agent gig.

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2. Viktor Tsoi

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one other Easter egg may also be found appropriate in Mega Tower 10, in the house of the protagonist, V, notes Alexey Yegorov on Kanobu.ru. to identify it, go away the apartment, flip left, then appropriate, and on the left wall within the corridor is a big graffiti inscription that says: "Tsoi is alive".

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this is a reference to Viktor Tsoi, the legendary Soviet rock musician and lead singer of the Kino rock band, who died in a car crash in 1990. As a tribute to his reminiscence, the inscription, "Tsoi is alive", may also be discovered on the walls of many residence blocks throughout Russia and even on a wall within the very coronary heart of Moscow.

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three. Soviet comedy: 12 Chairs

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The game developers additionally allude to a well-liked Soviet comedy, "12 Chairs", in which the main characters, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov (Kisa) and Ostap Bender (Osya), are on a hunt for diamonds hidden inner a misplaced chair.

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This Easter egg can be found at the game's very start: you deserve to go away the storage, go to the radio tower, look up and you'll see "Kisa and Osya have been here" written on one of the beams. in the ebook, both characters left the same 'autograph' on a rock all over one in all their travels.

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4. A funny story a few mistake throughout vote counting in a Russian election

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within the online game, players can scan vehicles to find out extra details concerning the online game's world. the outline to one of the most automobiles of the Kaukaz employer says that the magazine, Stakhanovite, has named it 'automobile of the yr' five times in a row since it invariably garnered 146 % of the regularly occurring vote.  

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In a post-election broadcast in 2011 on the state news channel Rossiya 24, when journalists had been summing up the outcomes of an election to the State Duma, they announced that within the Rostov area the voter turnout had been 146 p.c. Later, officers from the vital Electoral commission explained there had been a technical glitch, but ever considering then the figure '146 p.c' has become a popular Russian meme.

5. Russian blogger BadComedian

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one of the most popular bloggers on the Russian phase of YouTube goes by way of the identify ofBadComedian, (his real name is Evgeny Bazhenov), and he experiences dangerous Russian movies. 

game enthusiasts and the blogger's lovers are convinced his image elements in a poster in the online game where a television showman guarantees viewers to "knock the satan" out of them.

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additionally, game enthusiasts have noticed Bazhenov's identify, as neatly as the name of one other Russian blogger, Stas Davydov, within the online game's conclusion credit. The bloggers voiced over one of the crucial characters within the online game's English-language edition, nonetheless it's now not yet clear which specific characters.

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