Speaking via live broadcast from the CDP Summer Days event, CD Projekt has confirmed the appearance of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox 360 this year, with "no quality compromise" made for Geralt's first journey to console land.
We knew it was coming. The ESRB told us it was coming. Now the developers confirm that The Witcher 2 is indeed being ported to the Xbox 360, with "improvements" made to make the gaming PC-eating title run respectably on the console.
During the webcast CD Projekt representatives answered the question of console quality versus PC by repeating the mantra "It's not the size of the polygons but how you use them." One of the presenters further explained that even on its lowest settings, players still enjoy The Witcher 2 for the PC, and that it was all about the experience.
"It looks absolutely amazing and stunning on console," they assured the assembled viewers, before showing an animated trailer for the game.
Hopefully we'll get a better idea of how the console version looks and plays next week at E3 2011.
President Obama, on a tour of Europe this week, stopped in Poland today to meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk. As is customary, Tusk presented Obama with several gifts to commemorate his visit. One of those was the collector's edition of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
The Witcher is not just a Polish-developed video game series, it's based on a series of books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. So The Witcher is something of a national pride symbol, as well it should be. Fahey reviewed the game for us, and it earned a Kotaku Editor's Choice star.
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Developer CD Projekt has teased console versions of The Witcher games before, but it looks like it might actually happen for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The game's producer talked around it to Eurogamer and the ESRB now has a rating for an Xbox 360 version. Maybe at E3, then?
In a dreary encampment outside the small town of Flotsam the inhabitants gather nightly to listen to legendary tales of heroism. You don't need to visit, but if you're passing through you'd do well to stop and sit awhile.
I must have run through this camp a dozen times before I stumbled upon this storytelling session. The tale is from Andrzej Sapkowski's original short story "The Witcher", the characters of which play a part in both video games to an extent. It's an excellent example of the living, breathing world that CD Projekt has crafted.
The storyteller had other yarns to spin, but I moved on. I'm far from the outskirts of Flotsam now, but I imagine he's still there, passing down his legends to an eager new generation, hungry for tales of the past.
All great sword and sorcery epics have an element of romance to them. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings gets the romancing underway within the first ten minutes of starting a new game. Be warned: I've misplaced my censor bars.
How soon you get to this scene in CD Projekt's latest PC role-playing game depends on the choices you make. As the game opens the game's hero, Geralt of Riva, finds himself forced to recall a series of events leading up to a most heinous crime. There are four sequences to play through in any order. I just happened to stumble upon this one first.
Be on the lookout for more exciting tidbits from The Witcher 2 as I work my way out of bed and into the epic adventure.
