CD Projekt showed the first trailer of The Witcher 4, the next part of the fantasy series about killing monsters. This is another single-player open-world RPG, and the main character is Ciri from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. In fact, she is the heroine of a completely recent Witcher saga, although at the end of the material there is an announcement that ancient grumpy Geralt may also return.
The Witcher 4 video just unveiled at the Game Awards is both a showcase of the engine’s technology, “pre-rendered in a custom version of Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU,” and a demonstration of the kind of tasks you might encounter in the game, which seems to be heading directly behind the Witcher 3 launch tracks.
We see Ciri take on a contract to save a girl from being sacrificed to a spidery forest creature. “Desire to kill the beast and save the girl at the same time, Ciri comes into conflict with the prejudices and superstitions of the people she tries to protect, which leads her to face a painful Witcher lesson: that monsters come in all forms.” comments press release on the official website.
The trailer also shows off some of Ciri’s tools, including witcher spells and a hook-and-chain weapon, which you’ll apparently employ to hold off running monsters, readying them for your silver sword.
Ciri won’t just be the star of this game, according to game director Sebastian Kalemba: She’ll be heading up the next few Witcher games, according to game director Sebastian Kalemba.
“We are starting a completely new Witcher saga, this time with Ciri at the heart of the story!” – he announced in a press release. “It’s so good to finally be able to say these words – we’ve known for a long time that we wanted Ciri to be the heroine of The Witcher IV; It just seemed natural to us and we believe Ciri deserves it. In this game we want to discover what it means to truly become a witcher by following Ciri on her Path. This trailer is a taste of both that and how gloomy and grounded the world of The Witcher can be.
To be clear, The Witcher 4 is a project that was previously codenamed Polaris. CD Projekt has plenty of other things on fire. What do you think about all this?
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