The Witcher Remake Will Be Open-World & Reimagine the Original

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CD Projekt offered some new particulars about the extremely anticipated remake of The Witcher.

When CD Projekt RED introduced the upcoming remake of the unique The Witcher sport, the developer didn’t present many particulars.

Today we get some extra tidbits of data as a part of the firm’s monetary outcome presentation. The sport is described as a “story-driven, single-player open-world RPG” and “a modern reimagining of 2007’s The Witcher.”

This solutions one in all the most widespread questions on the sport’s construction. The open-world setup represents a big change in comparison with the unique sport, which was made with considerably in depth however linear ranges.

It’s additionally attention-grabbing to see the sport outlined “a modern reimagining,” albeit that’s not unsurprising as the new open-world construction will essentially contain plenty of adjustments.

Incidentally, we additionally heard from President and joint CEO Adam Kiciński that the remake will likely be launched after the subsequent mainline The Witcher Game (cod-named Polaris) as it would largely be based mostly on technological developments made for Polaris.

It’s value reminding that the remake gained’t be developed internally by CD Projekt RED as work is being dealt with externally by Fool’s principle, which incorporates a number of veterans of the sequence. Of course, CD Projekt will present technical help and supervision.

The sport will likely be created from the floor up in Unreal Engine 5 (to which CD Projekt as a complete has just lately switched from the proprietary RED Engine) and it’s being dealt with “with the utmost care and attention to detail.” At the second, no launch date or platforms have been introduced.

Today the developer additionally introduced very sturdy monetary outcomes for Q3 2022, breaking information for the strongest third quarter of its entire historical past.