Who is Keanu Reeves playing in Cyberpunk 2077?

The appearance of Keanu Reeves during the Cyberpunk 2077 presentation was one of the most electrifying moments of the beginning of E3 2019. Let's think about who Keanu can actually play.

When Keanu Reeves appeared on E3 2019 and with great excitement in the voice announced the release date Cyberpunk 2077, the audience almost exploded with joy. However, this is just the beginning of great news. The Poles from CDP RED not only engaged the actor to promote Cyberpunk, but also made Keanu one of the characters in the game world!

Who can Keanu Reeves play in Cyberpunk 2077 ?

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The plot of Cyberpunk 2077 is shrouded in mystery. Until now, the artists' materials have focused on showing the world of the game and the dystopian climate of Night City, in which we will do dirty business. The newest trailer, in which Keanu Reeves appears, reveals a bit more. It is possible that Cyberpunk 2077 will be the revenge story of the main character for the death of his friend. However, this is still only the shreds of information.

Let's see what actually happens in the trailer.

A dilapidated car with bullet holes goes under a seedy motel.

V gets out of the car, the main character of the game. He is wearing a jacket with the inscription "Samurai" under which there is a large logo of this formation.

V meets in a motel with contractors. He has a chip for them and wants money. Counterparties are careful. We find out that V is wanted by the police.

V goes to the bathroom, where he intends to wash his blood after the last action in which he won the chip.

During the flashback, we learn that the action had a bittersweet finale. The main goal was achieved, but the hero's friend lost his life.

V comes out of the bathroom, after which he gets a blow from the bodyguard. Counterparties do not intend to work with him on agreed terms, because they do not want to expose themselves to the police. There is a bloody fight with the use of mechanical limbs.

The whole goes completely against the plan. There is a shot in the scuffle, it is not known which way. V takes damage but escapes with life. He wakes up in a completely different place, probably on a scrap yard.

The character played by Keanu extends to V. It seems that it is the mysterious long-haired hero who saved V. The character has a silver hand and looks as if he has already passed many times in his life.

The only words spoken by the character played by Keanu are rather laconic:

Wake the fuck up Samurai, we have a city to burn. (Get up Samurai, we have a city to burn).

It is worth noting that on the stage during the Cyberpunk 2077 presentation, Keanu Reeves was wearing a t-shirt with the Samurai logo, visible in the trailer on the V jacket.

Who are Samurais with Cyberpunk 2077?

Remember that Cyberpunk 2077 is to be an adaptation of the classic role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020, only embedded 57 years later. We can therefore assume that characters from Cyberpunk 2020 will appear in the game.

In the paper game Samurai is a legendary rock band, for whom music was a way to rebel and fight the system. There are more such bands in the Cyberpunk's world and they have a lot to do with real punk rock bands from the 1980s.

The vocalist and main guitarist of the band Samurai is Johnny Silverhand , a character with a silver, shiny, mechanical hand. Do you associate it with something? Yes, it looks like Keanu Reeves is Johnny Silverhand.

Johnny Silverhand also has anger, anger and a desire for personal revenge. Like V, he lost close friends and family, and the enemies deprived him of his hand.

Silverhand has a big impact on the world of Cyberpunk 2020. After the breakup of the Samurai group, the music label wanted to resume a solo contract with the artist, but he decided to leave the stage. The factory blackmailed him by revealing his dark history. Silverhand was a marines deserter and participated in wars in Central and South America.

Is Johnny Silverhand ... alive?

Very likely not. In Cyberpunk 2077, Silverburn's character can only be a memory, an idol of the main character from childhood, and the Samurai band is a former rock legend with which V identifies itself. Silverhand's hand looks like a relic of the past. It is not covered with artificial leather and does not really resemble the super-modern bionic limbs that we saw in the trailer.

In addition, in the trailer Johnny Silverhand for a moment disappears from the view of the hero, as if it was just a projection, or a memory. As we are rotating in the world of cyberpunk, it is very possible that the whole is electronic, and the figure of Silverhand lives in digital form. Who knows, maybe it's sewn in the chip that starts the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer ...

Keanu Reeves is the perfect choice!

The actor certainly feels the atmosphere of Cyberpunk well. After all, Keanu created such creations as Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and John Wick, so who would play the rebel person Johnny Silverhand better?

One thing is certain, Cyberpunk 2077 promises to be a great game with a great world and an interesting story. Until recently, I did not feel the excitement of this title - or at least not as big as my editorial colleagues - but after the latest materials from the game I want to order a preorder. This is how the promotion of the game should be done!

Who is Keanu Reeves playing in Cyberpunk 2077?