The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Developer(s)	CD Projekt RED
Writer(s)	Sebastian Stępień, Marcin Blacha
Series	The Witcher
Engine	REDengine 3
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
Release	2014
Genre(s)	Action role-playing, hack and slash
Mode(s)	Single-player

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an upcoming action role-playing video game currently being developed by CD Projekt RED and officially announced on February 5, 2013.

The game will be the third in the series, which is based on the book series of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The Witcher 3 is set "In an open world 30 times larger" than the previous games, featuring the return of protagonist Geralt.

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Screenshots demonstrating distance and perspective in both outdoor and indoor settings.

REDengine 3

The Witcher 3 features the new REDengine 3 game engine. REDengine 3, developed by CD Projekt RED, is a new state-of-the-art game engine designed specifically for nonlinear RPGs set in vast open-world environments.

REDengine 3 improves significantly upon prior RPGs in a number of ways. REDengine 3 is a new technology, utilizing the 64-bit precision of modern personal computing. REDengine 3 produces better quality visuals via high dynamic range rendering with the 64-bit precision.

Additionally REDengine 3 allows for a complex nonlinear story line that previous game engines could not create except by sacrificing visual detail. Prior to REDengine game engine, RPG developers utilized game engines that force trade-offs during development. Either developers could create a vast, graphically detailed visual environment at the expense of telling a simplified linear story or they could create a complex nonlinear story at the expense of creating a limited visual environment.

REDengine helps to 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." As in the prior 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 visual detail.

Consequently, The Witcher 3 features no loading screens, providing players a vast visual environment that allows players to freely explore and roam. Without loading screens, the new REDengine 3 game engine further enhances and improves upon the concept of open-world gameplay that similar games, such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, currently offer.

REDengine 2 (internal name) was the game engine for The Witcher 2, and the REDengine 3 game engine takes computer graphics in The Witcher 3 several leaps farther, as follows. REDengine 3 creates more life-like visuals — better graphics, better lighting effects, better in-depth views. The Witcher 3 will feature new facial and body movements described as "movie quality," plus living ecosystems that react to player choices, all set in a more realistic open-world environment. The visuals are described as "superior picture quality." More realistic and precise lighting no longer suffer from reduced contrast ratio. REDengine 3 has a flexible renderer prepared for deferred or forward+ rendering pipelines. The result is a wide array of cinematic effects, including bokeh depth-of-view, color grading and flares associated with multiple lighting. The high performance terrain system layers varying material which can be easily blended and uses tessellation to produce superior visual detail.

External links

• Official website