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They really lived inside the game, and I think what we tried to learn from it was how to plan and produce a product like that. 'Almost no-one at the team had done a project in their lives before The Witcher,' he confesses, 'but there was a huge amount of passion. Even from a quick glance, this is true fan service.Д®xpect renewed combat as well as renewed visuals. Of course, it was a little bit naive on our side, but we said 'ach, let's do it.'' Thankfully, the 18 months spent putting together its own tech appears to be well worth it, with not only a wonderful array of picturesque exteriors, but breathtaking fantasy architecture, with a hand-crafted attention to detail that shines through.

'We wanted an engine that could handle a non-linear story, and the scale of locations that we were after. Built with the team's shiny new proprietary engine (named RED, after the studio), the team decided that if it really wanted to hob-nob it at the top-table of RPGs, it could no longer rely on middleware solutions, as it did with the Aurora Engine-based original. 'Sometimes I think they're just creating this beautiful 3D postcard,' he chimes, pausing for us to observe the beautiful, vibrant specular effects filtering through an intricately textured forest canopy. Even a casual stroll around a small section of the game reveals that it's one of the most sumptuous-looking RPGs ever attempted - a point CD Projekt was happy to emphasise over the course of our visit. Instead, we have more quests like this one, and it makes it more fun and more interesting.' One element that few people will argue about is how glorious the whole spectacle looks. 'We do still have some of those - just not as many.

It's really unlike linear shooters it's more like reading a book.' 'So, we don't have as many side quests in The Witcher 2 as we did before,' he admits, revealing that the team decided to axe most of the forgettable 'kill five of this monster' missions that routinely clog up an RPG's quest arteries. I think what's driving RPGs is that the pace of the game is yours to control. 'It was hard to know which one single thing was going to get you closer to achieving your goal. 'In The Witcher, it was a problem, because you'd look at your journal there'd be a thousand things to do,' Bartkowicz notes.

First of all, we can expect quality over quantity in terms of the missions this time around, with a more coherent, enjoyable structure to follow. Even from this brief showing, though, there was plenty to glean from the sneak peek. And to avoid even spoiling this tiny portion of the game, the curtain falls and we're shown no more. But just when it looks like they've nailed their suspect, it transpires that someone under the succubus' spell is actually going around killing her lovers in a fit of jealousy. Upon arrival, Dandelion reluctantly volunteers to venture into her underground lair at the risk of being ridden to death by the 'hoofed hag' while Geralt lurks outside her den of iniquity. Figuring that a dreaded succubus is behind the murders, Geralt and Dandelion quickly dispatch a few enemy stragglers en route and head for the home of a nearby suspect. One of the poor unfortunates is found clutching a book of love poetry, written by Geralt's best buddy Dandelion, the local minstrel and all-round wordsmith. Set around halfway through the game's three acts, lead protagonist Geralt of Rivia finds himself playing detective after the gruesome discovery of numerous lacerated corpses of young men in a nearby village ravine. 'Not only going from cliffhanger to cliffhanger, but for you to feel like you've achieved something and you've entered some little story within each chapter.' And to underline just how much it has fleshed-out the side quest aspect, we get whisked off into the heart of the studio for a brief hands-off demonstration of one of the less spoilerific side missions. We wanted to have these little stories within chapters,' he asserts. 'Each chapter of The Witcher 2 takes place in a different location, where you can't go back.

Witcher script studio crashes