
Songbird offers V an out for their predicaments from the base game (no spoilers here), in exchange for help should they crash land in Dogtown. Their shuttle is set to crash land in or near Dogtown, a new section of Pacifica in Night City that is controlled by a breakaway paramilitary group led by a man named Hansen. Hacking into your character's cybernetics (you're known as V in Cyberpunk 2077), Songbird elaborates that she works for the New United States President, who is under attack aboard Space Force One. Phantom Liberty kicks off with a distress signal from a mysterious character known as Songbird. It could also be that my TV at home just sucks, but I suspect there will be little complaints about how the game looks on the higher-end consoles hereon. I found myself double checking that CD Projekt RED hadn't snuck the build into a higher-end PC rig or something for my playthrough, because it felt as though the visuals were more dynamic and more crisp than what I remembered from my time with the base game. I experienced Phantom Liberty on Xbox Series X, and while there's still likely some optimization work ongoing, it played extremely well and looked incredibly gorgeous. It adds new endings and can be experienced concurrently with other open world quests within the base game, after completing its explosive intro sequence.

Phantom Liberty is essentially a new chapter for Cyberpunk 2077, while also sporting world-changing upgrades for the base game.
