Cool fully non-spoilery bits from the new gameplay demo
You can change V’s hair color, skin color, eye color, and facial features. There are lots of facial customization options.
Life path choice may open up an alternate dialogue option.
There’s real-time translation of someone talking to you in Creol, thanks to an implant chip. They speak it and you just read subtitles.
There are lots of shops to find, and more stuff unlocks as your street cred goes up.
There are lots of clothing customization options.
There’s a fully dynamic day and night cycle. Sunset looks nice.
Motorcycle driving looks fairly arcadey and sort of stiff.
When riding a motorcycle, you can change the radio to listen to different stations and can swap between first and third-person perspectives.
You can travel across the whole world freely and seamlessly with no loading screens.
“Players can play the entire game without killing an enemy if you wish.”
Hacking minigame confirmed: there’s a grid of hex codes that you pick out the right ones for. Completing the basic level will give you access but you can get more optional benefits for doing even better.
You can use the environment to distract enemies.
You can use perk points earned on level-ups to upgrade a number of categories: blades, rifles, handguns, assassination, cold-blood, sniper rifles, engineering, hacking, shotgun melee, two-handed (and most likely some more).
The level-up skill tree is a branching thing that looks like a motherboard almost, with cables going out from the center.
Perks also affect dialogue options.
