Cyberpunk 2077 will have lip sync for ten languages, including Italian

Source: HW Upgrade added 21st Oct 2020

Less than one month from highly anticipated debut, we return to talk about Cyberpunk 2077 and, more precisely, its localization. Ten of the different languages ​​the game has been translated and voiced into will boast full lip sync, which dramatically increases the realism of the ambitious RPG. Among the supported languages ​​we also find Italian.

by Pasquale Fusco published , at 12: 11 in the Videogames channel

CD Projekt Red

There are no longer any doubts regarding the high production quality of Cyberpunk 2077 . Less than a month to go before the launch of the colossal title of CD Projekt RED – authors of the acclaimed The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt – but in the last hours there has been talk of another interesting feature of the new role-playing game.

The expected RPG will boast the full lip sync for ten of the different languages ​​it has been translated and dubbed into; among these, luckily for us, we also find Italian.

Cyberpunk 2077: customized lip-sync for the Italian language

This incredible result was achieved thanks to the technology of JALI Research , a Canadian company founded by researcher Pif Edwards and by animator Chris Landreth. In the company of Mateusz Popławski , Lead Character Technical Director of CD Projekt RED, the two co-founders of JALI they told us about the collaboration with the software house and the entire creative process that lies behind the facial animations of Cyberpunk 2077.

How explains Popławski himself, in the plans of the Cyberpunk developers 2077 it should have had better lip sync than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and , in this regard, a customized support extended to the different languages ​​in which the game would have been localized.

The goal has been largely achieved for ten languages: every single character in the open world will boast an almost perfect lip-sync and extremely realistic facial expressions. This was made possible by the AI ​​and machine learning implemented by JALI, which allowed CD Projekt RED to ‘bypass’ the motion capture usually used in this phase.

Beyond all ‘ Italian , the nine languages ​​that can enjoy the synchronized lip are: English, French, Spanish, German , Polish, Russian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin.

Recall that Cyberpunk 2077 will be available from next time 19 November on PC , PS4 and Xbox One . The game will be backwards compatible with new generation platforms, but it is in the 2021 that we will welcome the update that will introduce full support to PS5 and Xbox Series X hardware | S.