In a surprise announcement, it's been revealed that The Witcher Remake is currently in development at Polish studio Fool's Theory, with CD Projekt Red providing "full creative supervision". It's also being built using Unreal Engine 5!
In a statement, the team stressed the need for patience as the game is still in its early stages:
"The Witcher Remake is what you might know by the codename “Canis Majoris”. It’s still early and we want to ensure that the game is created with the utmost care and attention to detail, therefore, while we’re excited to share the news with you, we want to ask you for patience as it will be a while until we start talking about this project in detail."
The first Witcher game was released in 2007 and never ended up gracing a console at all (just PC and Mac), so it'll be great to see this chapter of the saga finally arriving on Xbox for the first time.
There are clearly some massive plans in the works for The Witcher right now, with The Witcher 3 getting a free next-gen upgrade very soon, and confirmation that The Witcher 4 will be the first game in a new multi-part saga. Busy times!
Excited to see The Witcher getting a remake? Let us know down in the comments below.
[source thewitcher.com]
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@CrazyJF I am kind of like you. I have "replayed" the original game multiple times but only ever got so far in the opening chapters before I stopped playing due to various issues.
The game doesn't exactly "play nice" with my Surface Book 2. Sometimes the game just stops recognizing keyboard inputs and mouse inputs and I can't progress because it always happens in the same place. Then...after multiple reboots and computer restarts, it could finally "fix" itself only to crop up again. It seems to be related to swapping from cutscene to gameplay. 🤷♂️
Bottom line, it demands a reboot.
I knew it !
It has to be done. The only one episode not avalaible on Xbox.
I also tried to get into the game many times, but never suceeded in it. The game is just too old school in its mechanics, I presume. At least, for me.
So right now, I've not yet played any Witcher game. I have 2 and 3 on my Xbox storage, but I was waiting to finally get the strenght to finish the first one on steam, before.
Not a problem anymore, I guess, and that's cool.
Oh, but I did read the books, all of them. And they're just extraordinary. To every fan of the games, you should definitly try to read them.
Great news. The first Witcher has a wonderful setting and story but the gameplay, especially the combat, has aged horrifically as have the visuals. As it was PC only many won't have played it.
Yes there are too many remakes, but I can get behind this one.
Will it have the usual janky, clunky controls and camera that are present in every CD Projekt Red game I've played?
Sadly that ruins any and all enjoyment I would have playing their amazing games.
Hopefully this turns out good never had a chance to play the first game properly.
This is actually a remake I'm in favor of. Since I don't have any means of playing the original one, I love the idea. The Witcher 3 is still one of my favorite games of last and current gen.
I literally just played thru this game for the first time like a month ago.
As someone that likes remakes when they make sense, i think this one is as close to a perfect candidate for a remake as one can get. It’s old and clunky and doesn’t have console availability. Not to mention it will bring new comers into the series which I’m sure is the plan. Can’t wait to see and hear more about this in the future.
Fantastic news. Finally can experience this story. Hopefully they'll keep it as close to the original as possible.
Great news because there's no console version. The fact that a Polish developer is in charge and CD Projekt is close and paying attention is reassuring. I wonder if they'll also remake 2.
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