The Witcher Remake Will Be Open World, CD Projekt Red Confirms - IGN

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that its Unreal Engine 5 remake of 2007's The Witcher volition beryllium afloat unfastened world.

Revealed during its third 4th fiscal results, CD Projekt Red concisely mentioned its announcement of The Witcher Remake, saying that it volition beryllium a "story-driven, azygous subordinate unfastened satellite RPG".

The workplace had antecedently lone confirmed that it would beryllium different "full-fledged" Witcher game, but arsenic the archetypal is not unfastened world, determination was inactive speculation whether oregon not the remake would lucifer the 2007 mentation oregon thing person to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

CD Projekt Red didn't accidental thing other astir the caller game, reiterating its constituent made successful October that "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,” added workplace caput Adam Badowski astatine the time.

The archetypal Witcher saw Geralt escapade astir the Temerian superior of Vizima, a determination concisely visited successful The Witcher 3. While players could lone entree the royal castle successful the 3rd game, however, the entirety of Vizima, its outskirts, and much volition beryllium opened up successful The Witcher remake.

Each of these areas was breached up arsenic a antithetic level successful the archetypal and, for the astir part, erstwhile 1 had been completed players couldn't spell back. With the remake though, it appears that each of these areas volition beryllium connected, and players tin locomotion successful and retired of Vizima the aforesaid mode they bash Novigrad successful The Witcher 3.

In our 8/10 reappraisal of the original, IGN said: "The Witcher truly is simply a bully crippled and 1 that PC RPG fans volition surely enjoy. It combines immoderate entertaining and fast-paced combat with a good realized satellite and beauteous decent communicative that branches and tin extremity successful 3 antithetic fashions."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK quality editor. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.