CD Projekt Red Announces a Remake of The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5 - IGN

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Oct 26, 2022 2:24 pm

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Oct 26, 2022 2:05 pm

CD Projekt Red has announced that it volition remake The Witcher successful Unreal Engine 5, alongside developer Fool's Theory.

This is 1 of the five caller games the institution announced earlier this month, and antecedently went by the codename Canis Majoris. This volition beryllium a existent remake, with the the institution saying, it volition beryllium "rebuilt from the crushed up" successful Unreal Engine 5, and is aboriginal stages of development.

As portion of its announcement, the institution cautioned: "We privation to bash this right, truthful delight beryllium diligent — it's gonna beryllium a portion until we tin stock much details."

“The Witcher is wherever it each started for us, for CD Projekt Red. It was the archetypal crippled we made, ever, and it was a large infinitesimal for america then. Going backmost to this spot and remaking the crippled for the adjacent procreation of gamers to acquisition it feels conscionable arsenic big, if not bigger,” said Adam Badowski, Head of Studio, CD Projekt Red successful an annoucement post.

“Collaborating with Fool’s Theory connected the task is conscionable arsenic exciting, arsenic immoderate of the radical determination person been antecedently progressive successful The Witcher games. They cognize the root worldly well, they cognize however overmuch gamers person been looking guardant to seeing the remake happen, and they cognize however to marque unthinkable and ambitious games. And though it volition instrumentality immoderate clip earlier we’re acceptable to stock much astir and from the game, I cognize it’ll beryllium worthy the wait.”

Canis Majoris was 1 of the much intriguing announcements successful CD Projekt's upcoming slate, marking the archetypal clip the developer volition enactment with a third-party developer. Fans had been very intrigued to find retired which developer that was, but we hadn't seen Fool's Theory arsenic a conjecture earlier now.

Set up successful 2015 and described arsenic "a corporate of AAA veterans", the institution is simply a Polish workplace that has antecedently contributed to Baldur’s Gate III, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Outriders, among different projects. Fool's Theory is besides moving connected a task codenamed Vitriol, a caller IP made successful collaboration with 11-Bit Studios (Frostpunk, This War of Mine).

Released successful 2007, The Witcher was CD Projekt Red's debut crippled and, portion little refined than its successors, acceptable retired a immense magnitude of the lore, tone, and systems that would specify the now-landmark RPG series. At the time, we gave it an 8.5 review, saying it was "definitely a crippled you’ll retrieve good implicit the years." If you're wondering wherefore a remake was announced today, that's due to the fact that it's the 15th day of the archetypal release.

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