Cyberpunk 2077 Players Unlock Third-Person Mode, It's Nightmare Fuel

Cyberpunk 2077 players have just unlocked a hidden third-person mode in the game, and it’s the stuff of nightmares.

Despite CD Projekt Red having found success in the third-person RPG space with The Witcher series, the decision to make Cyberpunk 2077 a first-person game was met with some criticism by fans.

After all, Cyberpunk 2077 is a game where you can create your own character and design how they look, so it would have been nice to be able to see your V in parts of the game aside from the photo mode.

The lack of a 3rd-person mode has been called out many times, and some modders have even been able to unlock a third-person mode for use. But the results are, well, let’s say they’re less than ideal.

As shared on X (formerly Twitter), user TheGameVerse posted a video demonstrating what a third-person camera mode would really look like if Cyberpunk 2077 had the feature.

“This is why there’s no third-person camera in Cyberpunk,” they wrote in a post featuring the video.

The video itself shows off a few isolated clips of the player performing a few actions in Cyberpunk 2077 using the third-person camera mode, and it’s quite nightmarish.

Cyberpunk 2077's Third Person Mode Is Quite Horrifying

The video starts off rather well, showing a female V walking and running across the street in Night City. It looks fine, not perfect, but decent enough. Unfortunately, it’s a bad day for anyone with eyes as the quality rapidly dips from there.

The next clip shows the player performing a nonlethal takedown on a cop, and it looks like their entire neck dislocates from the rest of their body, creating a rather nightmarish result as V transcends all notion of healthy human anatomy.

The clip after that shows them Naruto-running down an empty city street, with absolutely no care taken to how other citizens of Night City are perceiving them.

Perhaps V just has too many intrusive thoughts, and lacks the self-humiliation to become embarrassed by it?

Further clips feature V brandishing a katana and crouch-walking along the floor, which also look rather messed up.

Obviously, these animations look the way they do because Cyberpunk 2077 is a first-person game, and the animations need to work for first-person mode. Then again, as someone who grew up with PS1 and PS2 games, these animations are how I remember games from that era looking anyway.