The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Week, Day Four

[GameBanshee News]

For the fourth day of their The Witcher: Enhanced Edition week, CD Projekt announces the game's Russian and German release, a partnership with Logitech to give away prizes to The Witcher: Versus players, an interview with one2tribe's founder, two new gameplay trailers, and a new Witcher-related "Demons Away" tune. An excerpt from the interview:

ŁB: Can you tell us something about the characters we can choose in Versus?

WO: At present there are three character classes: sorceress, witcher and frightener. The latter is probably most interesting, because seldom can you choose to be a monster in such games. These three classes seemed to provide the most diverse array of choices. The witcher, of course, fights with a sword, though he can also use amulets, alchemy and his magic Signs, that is, all the things we know from the PC version. The sorceress uses different spells, which she can also apply temporarily to improve her skills. The last character is the frightener, which we can be mutate in many different ways, improving its armor or fighting skills - that's what monsters like best. Each character is designed for a different kind of combat, but we can still develop them in any direction we want: our sorceress might specialize in strong blows, our witcher might excel at magic. It's up to the player.

ŁB: How do players profit when they defeat an opponent and what happens if they lose?

WO: Players gain experience points with every fight and they can exchange these for skills as they progress. Duel winners also receive orens, the currency from the world of The Witcher, and can use these to buy items. Defeated players might lose orens, but not necessarily. They might receive some orens after a fight even if they lose if the duel was really good. Players do not lose experience points if they're defeated, because we don't want to discourage them from trying new sequences of moves, character set-ups and so on.