While details from the CD Projekt Red team about Adam Smasher's involvement in the game or backstory are thin, the developers confirmed his in-game presence with a brief appearance in a trailer titled "The Gig."Here, Smasher appears while the characters plan a heist against Arasaka, one of the corporations that run Night City, which matches his factional alignment in the tabletop Cyberpunk game.

From the tabletop game and extended universe around it, more details of Smasher's life are available. A video from GameSpotexplains his early life via Cyberpunk lore, growing up in the Bronx district of New York City sometime before 2000. Smasher's first exposure to violence took form in gang activities and then transferred into a brief stint in the army. After being discharged for insubordination, Smasher returned to New York to offer his services as a gun for hire.

However, his life as a human mercenary wouldn't last forever. One day, enemies hit Smasher with rocket launcher rounds that disintegrated most of his body. The Arasaka corporation rebuilt his shattered torso with machine augmentations and made Smasher a Solo, or cybernetic mercenary, in exchange for 15 years of service.

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