Here’s your very first look at The Witcher 4

1 month ago 26

The crippled got a astonishment unveiling astatine The Game Awards.

By Andrew Webster, an amusement exertion covering streaming, virtual worlds, and each azygous Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge successful 2012, penning implicit 4,000 stories.

Dec 13, 2024, 1:25 AM UTC

The 2024 variation of The Game Awards started with a bang — the precise archetypal look astatine the adjacent Witcher game. It’s called The Witcher 4, and was revealed via a lengthy cinematic trailer that starred Ciri successful spot of Geralt, who led the archetypal trilogy. There aren’t galore details yet, but CD Projekt Red says that successful the caller crippled “Ciri takes halfway signifier arsenic the protagonist, embarking connected her ain travel to go a nonrecreational monster slayer.” It volition beryllium a single-player, open-world RPG.

It doesn’t dependable similar the trailer volition needfully beryllium typical of the last game, however. Here’s however CD Projekt Red explains it:

In the astir six-minute trailer, viewers were introduced to Ciri, the adopted girl of Geralt of Rivia, arsenic she takes connected a witcher declaration successful a distant colony that has been terrorized for generations by a fearsome monster demanding quality sacrifices. Framed arsenic a short, self-contained Witcher story, the trailer showcases Ciri’s caller abilities and tools, including a concatenation and precocious magic powers.

At the bosom of the trailer is Ciri’s position arsenic an outsider to the village. As the villagers accidental goodbye to 1 of their ain — a young miss they are preparing for a accepted ritual sacrifice — Ciri chooses to intervene. Aiming to slay the beast and prevention the miss astatine the aforesaid time, Ciri finds herself astatine likelihood with the prejudices and superstitions of the radical she tries to protect, starring her to face a achy witcher lesson: that monsters travel successful each forms.

We’ve known for immoderate clip that CD Projekt Red was moving connected a travel up to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which is meant to footwear disconnected a caller saga for the phantasy franchise. In November the workplace revealed that the game, antecedently codenamed “Polaris,” was successful the “full-scale accumulation phase” of development.” It’s being built utilizing Unreal Engine 5, which the workplace shifted to pursuing the troubled motorboat of Cyberpunk 2077. When it comes to the cinematics shown disconnected today, the workplace says that “the cinematic trailer is pre-rendered successful a customized physique of Unreal Engine 5 connected an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU.”

No connection yet connected platforms oregon merchandise timing.