E3 – Cyberpunk 2077 and Watch Dogs: Legion will support Ray Tracing

This week, during E3 2019, we had more announcements of games that will support Ray Tracing, an advanced graphics technique used to give movies their ultra-realistic visual effects, and which has started to be implemented in several games through GeForce graphics cards RTX, by NVIDIA, with Turing architecture. The new games that will support the technology are the cyberpunk 2077 It is Watch Dogs: Legion.

Cyberpunk 2077 is CD Projekt RED’s next The Witcher title. The RPG won a new trailer during the Microsoft conference and will feature actor Keanu Reeves, from the Matrix and John Wick films.

E3 – Cyberpunk 2077 and Watch Dogs: Legion will support Ray Tracing

“Cyberpunk 2077 is an incredibly ambitious game that blends first-person perspective and deep RPG mechanics, while creating an intricate and immersive world to tell its story,” said Matt Wuebbling, Head of Marketing, GeForce at NVIDIA. “We believe the world of Cyberpunk will benefit enormously from the realistic lighting that ray tracing provides.”

“Ray tracing allows us to realistically portray how light behaves in a crowded urban environment,” says Adam Badowski, Head of Studio at CD PROJEKT RED. “Thanks to this technology, we can add another layer of depth and verticality to the already impressive megacity in which the game takes place.”

Watch Dogs: Legion was announced a few days before the event and was officially unveiled at the Ubisoft conference, with an innovation never seen before in the series by allowing you to recruit and play as anyone you see in the iconic city of London.

Every character in the open world is playable, and everyone has a backstory, personality, and abilities that will help you customize your own team. Bring your characters online and join forces with friends to take back London in four-player co-op missions, ultimate challenges, and daily events.

“The futuristic London of Watch Dogs: Legion comes to life with a vibrancy and realism that can only be achieved with ray tracing,” said Chris Early, Vice President of Partnerships and Revenue at Ubisoft. “GeForce RTX is taking gaming into the future and is the perfect platform to host Watch Dogs: Legion.”

Watch Dogs: Legion will be released on March 6, 2020. Cyberpunk 2077 will be released on April 16, 2020. In addition to these games, ray tracing will also be used in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Wolfenstein: Yongblood and has recently been implemented in Quake II RTX, with a demo available for free on Steam and the official website. Other games that already have support are Battlefield V, Shadow of The Tomb Raider and Metro: Exodus.