What happens when you take a really pretty and successful RPG and then make it prettier? Well you get The Witcher 2, of course!
Here we will explore some of the stunning characters, environments, concept art and in-game footage that has come from the CD Projekt RED team.
As the production cycle for The Witcher was coming to a close, the team had already begun to explore ideas for the sequel. They were deciding how they could improve their tech, their visuals and the overall game experience to bring The Witcher 2 to whole new level in the RPG genre. After checking out screenshots and videos of the game, it’s quite clear that they have definitely nailed it.
The game doesn’t suffer from the classic “next-gen desaturation” as the use of colour is huge throughout the game. It’s plainly visible on the costume/armour designs for the characters as some have bright oranges, reds and purples. The environments are spectacularly lit to emphasise atmosphere and bring focal areas to the player’s attention with the use of colour variation and lighting hot-spots.
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Their forest and terrain are quite impressive. Scrub that, ALL of their artwork is impressive
must…..have….game…
I'd seen boxes of the original way back when it first came out and never really bothered with the game. But after seeing the art of the new one I picked up the first one on Steam to check it out.
Just from screenshots alone, I'm impressed with the sheer amount of visual improvement from an already impressive looking game.
The last time I had this happen was for God of War on the PS2 only to have God of War II raise the bar significantly higher (to this day, I still think it's the prettiest game for that generation of console).
That second image totally makes me think of Adam's evil genius UDK scene, but darker.
Yeah, good to have a mature fantasy environment for a change, if they stay faithful to the novels story should be as good as these awesome visuals.
You're missing out, Emil. Alongside Planescape: Torment and Anachronox, The Witcher is my favourite RPG, vast, vast distances ahead of anything released by Bethesda and slightly less vast distances beyond Bioware.
A grim fantasy with genuinely grey morality.
AWE-SOME are they still using Aurora?
Jackablade: your putting the witcher 1 above Mass Effect, and dragon age? madness!!
They're using a new engine of their own making, not an improved Aurora as they were previously. They had one frame in the trailer that talked about it, I believe. (as a 'gift' to those who comb through trailers frame by frame, hoping to find something
)
I don't understand why they changed the faces for the main characters. Those in the first witcher were almost perfect.
The new ones are lacking personality.
As a fan of the first game I still hope they'll change the withcer/triss as they were.
I'd suggest that's just the screenshot. The website shows both concept and model art for Triss, Dandelion and Zoltan and they're looking rather nice indeed. I will agree that they might have tried to make Geralt a little too "handsome".
http://tw2.thewitcher.com/#characters
And Fletch, as far as I'm concerned, Dragon Age never comes close to being as good as the Witcher. Mass Effect 2 sits pretty close to the same level in my enjoyable RPGs list though.
Odd, I've always though that DO:A was way better than both ME and ME2. Along with The Witcher, DO:A is my favourite RPG this generation (not that we had many good RPG's lately). Neither of them has anything on BGII so I guess that's fair.
Awesome screenshots. That foliage looks sweet. The improvement over the first game is amazing.