The Witcher: Enhanced Edition E3 Preview

[GameBanshee News]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun was able to take a closer look at CD Projekt's The Witcher: Enhanced Edition during the ongoing E3 festivities.

Not only the new dialogue but an cut scenes are immediately more bearable thanks to characters that now gesture, and Tomasz told me it was generated on the fly based on “emotions” the characters would be feeling (well, something like that, anyway) and that they could actually emote differently in the same cutscene if you watched it more than once.

They’ve also removed clones as much as possible – townsfolk and enemies now wear different clothes or are different colours – and you can play the game with the dialogue in any language they recorded it in. So if you still don’t like the new English voices you can use the original Polish (which are excellent.)

Christ, I’m reading this all back and it just doesn’t sound as exciting as Tomasz made it sound. How about that it’s coming in a swanky collector’s edition including all kinds of crazy additions such as a CD full of music by bands inspired by the Witcher? No? You already own it and don’t want to buy it again? Well, you’ll be glad to hear all the enhancements are going to be available to you completely free of charge.

[Xandax]

Am definitely gonna try The Witcher again once this comes out.

[Lady Dragonfly]

So am I. I am really curious.

Tomasz is so absolutely enthusiastic about his game that I was entranced.

Because he was enthusiastic?

Not only the new dialogue but an cut scenes are immediately more bearable thanks to characters that now gesture...

No, the dialogues are, hopefully, more bearable because they've been completely re-done.

They’ve also removed clones as much as possible – townsfolk and enemies now wear different clothes or are different colours – and you can play the game with the dialogue in any language they recorded it in. So if you still don’t like the new English voices you can use the original Polish (which are excellent.)

Er... different clothes? I thought they were talking about different faces before?
And why would I want to use the language I don't understand? This is not the Italian Opera.

Who is this moron? Shani's Grandma would've done a better review.