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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
File:TW3 Wild Hunt logo.png
Developer(s)CD Projekt RED
Publisher(s)
Writer(s)Borys Pugacz Muraszkiewicz
Marcin Blacha
SeriesThe Witcher
EngineREDengine 3 with PhysX and SpeedTree
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4[1]
Xbox One[2]
Release
  • TBA (earliest speculation Q2 2014)
[citation needed]
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Polish: Wiedźmin 3: Dziki Gon) is an upcoming action role-playing video game currently in development by CD Projekt RED, to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. The game will be the third in the series, preceded by The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which are loosely based on the series of fantasy novels of the same title by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

Gameplay

Plot

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt concludes the story of old Geralt of Rivia, the series' protagonist, whose story to date has been covered in the previous versions.[3]

Development

The game was officially announced on February 4, 2013, via Game Informer, with a 2014 release on PC and "all high-end platforms available".[4] The latter was then clarified to mean the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One on February 21, 2013[5] and June 10, 2013,[6] respectively. According to the official information from Microsoft, The Witcher 3 was originally not going to be available on the Xbox One in Poland, the country where the game's development process is taking place. However, this has recently changed as regional restrictions have been entirely removed from the Xbox One.[7]

The Witcher 3 will introduce "a living open world larger than any other in modern RPG history."[3] The setting is more than "30 times larger" than previous Witcher games,[8] requiring players to catch a sailboat to some locations and ride by horseback to others. However, fast travelling around the areas of known locations is also possible.[3] The Witcher 3 has been described as "20% bigger than Skyrim,"[9] and CD Projekt RED anticipates approximately 100 hours for the completion of the main story and open-world quests.[10] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt received about 60 awards based on its pre-release version.[citation needed]

Game engine

The Witcher 3 will feature the new REDengine 3 game engine, developed by CD Projekt RED and designed specifically for nonlinear role-playing video games set in vast open world environments.[11] It is supposed to help eliminate many of the game development trade-offs previous developers faced, allowing The Witcher 3 developers to create "an open environment with a complex, multi-thread story."[11] As in the previous two Witcher games, players are presented with a complex story featuring multiple choices bearing associated consequences. But REDengine allows for a complex story line without sacrificing the design of the virtual world.[11] Consequently, The Witcher 3 features no loading screens, providing players a vast visual environment that allows players to freely explore and roam.[11]

References

  1. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (February 21, 2013). "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt confirmed for PlayStation 4 in 2014". Eurogamer. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  2. ^ Purchese, Robert (June 10, 2013). "The Witcher 3 confirmed for Xbox One, has optional Kinect commands, SmartGlass stuff". Eurogamer. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Screenshots of next-gen RPG The Witcher 3. Update: It won't be the final Witcher game". Game Informer. February 4, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  4. ^ Biessener, Adam (February 4, 2013). "March Cover Revealed: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt". Game Informer. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  5. ^ Kato, Matthew (February 21, 2013). "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Confirmed For PlayStation 4". Game Informer. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  6. ^ Marchiafava, Jeff (June 10, 2013). "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Coming To Xbox One". Game Informer. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  7. ^ "The Witcher 3 not on Xbox One in Poland". Cinemablend. June 13, 2013.
  8. ^ "March Cover Revealed: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt". Game Informer. February 4, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  9. ^ "GS News - The Witcher 3 set to be 20% bigger than Skyrim". GameSpot. February 5, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  10. ^ Luke Karmali (October 25, 2013). "The Witcher 3 to Have Over 100 Hours of Content". IGN. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
  11. ^ a b c d "Press release posted to IGN forums". Projekt RED. February 1, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
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