It’s an announcement that will no doubt appeal to many fans. The Witcher video game saga is back in action with the arrival of a next title. This “The Witcher 4” as we might be tempted to call it brings with it many new features.
[Mis à jour le mardi 22 mars 2022 à 16h50] What was the surprise of the internet sphere when CD Projetk RED split from a blog post and a tweet announcing nothing less than the continuation of the hit video game series The Witcher! Fans around the world rejoice at this important news, involving a return to the spotlight of the medieval-fantasy universe taken from the novels ofAndrzej Sapkowski. But since the release of these essential works of fantasy literature, water has flowed under the bridge, with the release of no less than three games dedicated to the continuation of the adventures of Geralt de Riv, a card game in line and above all of a titanic success Netflix series. Nothing makes more sense for CD Projekt RED than to continue this success story with the release of a fourth and completely new The Witcher game.
Only here, if the series takes up the events of the book, the trilogy of The Witcher games continues them and concludes them, signing the end of the adventures of our witcher with alabaster hair. That is to say that concretely, the next game The Witcher will not mark the return of Geralt and Yennefer but will on the other hand be an entirely new story, a “new saga” if we quote the words of CD Projekt RED. Add to that an image of a witcher’s medallion closer to the feline than the wolf and you will have the assurance of a whole new story in this dark and pitiless world that so skilfully mixes fantasy with medieval obscurantism.
In terms of history, nothing has been revealed for the moment, only clues, the image of the medallion which we are talking about a little above and the assurance of novelty. Not much to get your teeth into except on the technical side, since we already know that this next game will fully adopt the Unreal Engine 5 graphics engine, where Cyberpunk 2077, the studio’s latest creation was based on a studio-specific engine, the RED Engine. CD Projekt RED also confirms its intention to work closely with Epic Games to develop a new generation open-world, which should not see the light of day before 2023 or even 2024. Moreover, note that the announcement of a collaboration with Epic Games is always greeted with skepticism by gamers, doubts that CD Projekt swept away fairly quickly by announcing its intention to release “The Witcher 4” without any sales exclusivity, understand non-exclusive to the Epic Games Store.