CD Projekt Red: First trailer showing The Witcher IV with Ciri on GeForce RTX 50 350 comments
As part of the Game Awards 2024, CD Projekt Red presented the first cinematic trailer for The Witcher IV. The dark fantasy role-playing game developed in Unreal Engine 5 uses Cirilla, Geralt’s adopted daughter, as the protagonist and was rendered for video on a not-yet-introduced Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card.
The Witcher 4 with the witcher Ciri
Rumors that the new Witcher installment would simply be called “The Witcher 4” have been circulating since the game was first announced as Project Polaris. And after Geralt’s saga was completed with a trilogy, Ciri was seen as the obvious choice for the protagonist of a new Witcher role-playing game. In Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels, she already played this role towards the end of the story, and in The Witcher 3, Ciri was also playable several times in the level sections.
However, Ciri was considered so obvious that the option was dismissed as unlikely for that reason alone. With a six-minute trailer for The Witcher IV introducing Cirilla as a witcher, both debates are irrelevant. CD Projekt has thus decided on one of the different endings of the third part, in which Ciri follows in Geralt’s footsteps and pursues her own career as a professional monster hunter.
The Witcher IV is an open-world single-player RPG from CD Projekt Red. At the start of a new saga, you play as Ciri and embark on a journey through a brutal and dark fantasy world. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it promises to be the most immersive and ambitious open world game in the Witcher series to date.
In the first trailer, which draws parallels with the two popular cinematic trailers “Killing Monsters” and “A Night to Remember” from The Witcher 3, Ciri first appears as an observer of an occult ritual in which a young woman must be sacrificed. . The witch immediately decides to take matters into her own hands and goes to a cave to fight an unknown monster.
CD Projekt wants to take creative risks
We already know that the new game definitely won’t be “The Witcher 3 with a new coat of paint.” The Witcher IV will again offer an open game world as the start of a new saga and will be built on the basis of what the developer has released so far, but there will be many new elements, new game mechanics and other “revolutionary innovations”. “. previous CD Projekt Red games are unknown.
[a]Crafting A new game is always a creative risk, especially as we try to push new boundaries and explore new areas, to do something we’ve never done before. You shouldn’t expect a Witcher 3 dressed in new clothes.[…]
I mean, sure, we’re building on what’s been done before and learning from what’s been done before, but we’ll be adding new things, new elements, new gameplay elements, new mechanics that you haven’t seen before. our previous games so far.
Michał Nowakowski, CEO of CD Projekt
Meanwhile, the witcher Geralt of Rivia will also be there, but only in a supporting role or even just as a guest.
Unreal Engine 5 on GeForce RTX 50
It is also clear that The Witcher IV will not again be based on the RED Engine, which marked a milestone in gaming graphics with RT Overdrive in Cyberpunk 2077, but will be created as a showcase project in Unreal Engine 5. This level in an adapted version The version is also the basis for the trailer presented now, which however does not show any real-time graphics of the game. The video was rendered on a “yet unannounced GeForce RTX GPU from Nvidia”. At the same time, Nvidia more or less confirmed the presentation of the GeForce RTX 5000 (“RTX 50 Series”) at CES.
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CD Projekt isn’t naming the kid, but we can almost certainly assume it’s a GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card or, more precisely, the GeForce RTX 5090. Nvidia will reveal the new gaming GPUs Blackwell at CES 2025 on January 7. . It goes without saying that, as with Cyberpunk 2077, Nvidia is positioning itself as a technical and marketing partner for CD projects. However, it cannot be assumed that The Witcher IV will appear soon or even as a launch title for the new generation of GPUs – a release in 2025 can be considered impossible.
The Witcher 4 is active in “Full Production”
It wasn’t until late November that CD Projekt announced as part of its quarterly figures that The Witcher 4 had entered “full production.” Even before that, over 400 developers were involved in the title as of spring.
The three parts released so far are The Witcher (2007), The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011) and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015). The latest installment continues to be very popular with fans. Alongside The Witcher IV, CD Projekt has announced two new Witcher games for the end of 2023.
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