Warsaw (AFP)

Polish video game studio CD Projekt RED has announced that it will once again delay the release of its highly anticipated game Cyberpunk 2077, which should finally be available on November 19.

The game was originally scheduled to be released in April, before a new date is set for September.

"We have decided to postpone the release of Cyberpunk 2077 from September 17 to November 19. Players who know the way we work know that we will not release something that is not ready," wrote CD Projekt managers. Red in a statement released Thursday evening on Twitter.

If, technically, the game seems finished, CD Projekt RED writes that it needs more time to fix the bugs and check that everything is working.

"At the time of writing, Cyberpunk 2077 is finished in terms of both content and gaming experience," said the creators. However, according to them, due to the abundance of content and the interlacing of the internals, "we have to go through everything properly in order to balance the mechanisms and fix many bugs".

Action-RPG solo video game, Cyberpunk 2077, immersed in a dystopian punk world, has its origins in the table role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020. It was announced in 2012 but the Polish studio first got involved to create the latest installment in The Witcher saga - Wild Hund, a game acclaimed by players around the world and which has sold tens of millions of copies.

One of the main characters of Cyberpunk 2077 will have the features and the voice of the Canadian actor Keanu Reeves, known for his roles in "Matrix" or "John Wick".

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