Anyone who has played CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt knows it to be one of the greatest and immersive video games in history, continuing its strong legacy as it celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. That makes the company’s claim The Witcher 4 is their “most ambitious” game in the franchise all the more enticing as they showed off a new demo of the anticipated release. Watch the video below…
At Epic’s State of Unreal, CD Projekt Red showed off two videos of Witcher 4 that runs on Unreal Engine 5. The first is a lengthy cinematic of a monster attack that Ciri, now a Witcher herself, begins to investigate, and the second is a tech demo showcasing Ciri riding into a town and interacting with the marketplace and its various seller. CDPR’s Sebastian Kalemba emphasized the video was not gameplay footage, but a separate tech demo to tease the game’s detailed visuals and vast open world as he called it their “most ambitious” entry in the series.
The Witcher series has followed Geralt of Rivia as players travel across the Continent hunting for monsters and investigating dangerous and immanent threats to all life. The Witcher 4 will place players in the shoes of Geralt’s adopted daughter Ciri some time after the events of Wild Hunt where Ciri has become the first female Witcher by undergoing the trials and mutations to become a Witcher. Whether or not Geralt will feature in the new game has not, like many of the story’s details, been revealed.
A release window has not yet been revealed, by CDPR has been developing The Witcher 4 for several years now. We’ll have to wait for more information on the game, but it is likely to be released on current-gen consoles and potentially Nintendo’s Switch 2, which will be released on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Netflix’s fourth season of The Witcher adaptation is expected to premiere in the fall with Liam Hemsworth stepping in as Geralt of Rivia after Henry Cavill departed the series.
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