CD Projekt Crimson has formally unveiled The Witcher 4, beforehand identified by its inside mission codename Polaris, and it will star Geralt’s ward Ciri as she embarks on her personal Witcher Path.
The cinematic reveal trailer for The Witcher 4 was proven throughout yesterday’s Recreation Awards, the place we additionally acquired reveals for the likes of Okami 2, the brand new Naughty Canine recreation, and co-op survival spinoff Elden Ring Nightreign.
Within the trailer, we see Ciri taking up a witcher contract to dispatch a monster “demanding ritual sacrifice”, as CD Projekt Crimson says. A villager makes an attempt to cease her going after the woman who has been chosen for sacrifice, however she angrily retorts that it wasn’t the gods who selected the woman, however the villagers themselves.
We see Ciri enterprise into the forest the place the monster lives, dispatching it in a usually Witcher-esque fight scene that feels very weighty and heavy.
She returns to the village with the monster’s head, whereupon the woman from the start of the trailer apparently dies in her father’s arms. The villagers say they solely needed the woman to “go to the gods”, whereupon Ciri responds that “there aren’t any gods right here, there are solely monsters”.
All of it appears to be like like usually riveting, usually grounded Witcher stuff, and it is good to see Ciri taking Geralt’s function because the protagonist, particularly provided that she appears to be a much less indifferent and extra fiery Witcher than he was.
In an announcement put up, CD Projekt Crimson says the trailer was pre-rendered utilizing “a customized construct of Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU”, presumably referring to the mooted 50 collection, which has but to be revealed.
Final month, CDPR mentioned manufacturing on the brand new Witcher recreation was ramping up, so its announcement throughout yesterday’s Recreation Awards makes a whole lot of sense.
The studio is promising “essentially the most immersive and bold open-world Witcher recreation thus far”, however we nonetheless do not have a launch window for it but, sadly. We’ll seemingly have to attend some time for more information, so watch this area.