CDProjekt Red’s senior game designer Damien Monnier shared a short new trailer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as well as the announcement that players will have a chance to play as more than just Geralt of Rivia. Monnier wouldn’t say who that character was, but chances are good that it will be one of the two female characters first announced at this year’s E3 — Ciri or Yennefer. In the fiction of the Witcher universe Geralt is a kind of father-figure for Ciri, who he has trained up in some of the skills of monster hunting he specializes in. Taking control of her in The Witcher 3 would be similar to controlling Geralt himself. However, dramatically different gameplay could result if players are given access to the sorceress Yennefer who fights primarily with spells rather t...
The Witcher 3 is building up to be quite something and promises to be nothing short of an epic game. With claims to be almost 30 times larger than its predecessor, this game is gonna keep a hell of a lot of gamers glued to their console. The Witcher 3 will feature the new REDengine 3 game engine, developed by CD Projekt RED and designed specifically for nonlinear RPGs set in vast open world environments. For more information on this game, check out our earlier post on Witcher 3. Here are the screens –