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It's been dark for quite a while, but Cyberpunk 2077 is destined to leap back into the limelight in the relatively near future. With production having shifted to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's two expansion packs - the first of which is out on PlayStation 4 next week - CD Projekt Red will be thinking about how to start pushing its next property.

According to visual effects artist Jose Teixeira, "Cyberpunk is far bigger than anything else that CD Projekt Red has done before". Speaking to MCV, he adds: "We're really stepping into the unknown in terms of complexity and size and problems we encounter."

With the critical and commercial success of The Witcher 3, it's no surprise that the Polish developer is now using the title as a benchmark when developing Cyberpunk 2077, as Teixeira explains: "The Witcher helped Cyberpunk quite a bit, because the game got so big and so complex that it really taught us [...] I can guarantee that almost everyone in that studio has something that they go 'I did this this time, next time I can do it differently, I can do it better'."

A single CG trailer is all that we've seen of the supposedly gritty role-playing game so far, but we'd put money on hearing more about the highly anticipated release as we move into 2016. Are you eager to see what CD Projekt Red has been cooking up? Feel free to watch the fantastic reveal video again, and then relay your hype levels to us in the comments section below.

[source mcvuk.com, via segmentnext.com]