After announcing yesterday that The Witcher is headed to consoles with the new subtitle Rise of the White Wolf, the first official trailer has been released (embedded after the break). Don't get to excited though, as there is nary a frame of gameplay to be seen. What we do get to see is a very impressive CG movie of the Witcher himself performing some balletic moves with his sword and slaying a few monsters (are those Necrotaurs?). It's all very Crouching Tiger. We have to admit the video has us intrigued. Now we just need some gameplay.
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2008 3:23PM jsgrill said
Yeah, I would think we would just need to take a look at the PC videos and it would look pretty close to that.
I'm more interested in finding out what they mean by 'dynamic control scheme' and 'new combat system'. It is going to be a big improvement over the PC version or is it just mapping the PC controls to the controller?
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I'm more interested in finding out what they mean by 'dynamic control scheme' and 'new combat system'. It is going to be a big improvement over the PC version or is it just mapping the PC controls to the controller?
Posted: Dec 3rd 2008 4:02PM AoE said
Who knows if it'll be an improvement or not... they're using a new game engine and will apparently be sporting new character models as well... so between those two things, I would think looking at the PC version won't necessarily let us know what the console version is going to look like.
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2008 4:52PM (Unverified) said
This got me excited to....watch a kung-fu movie?
Really, please just show some gameplay or a trailer with some meat on it.
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Really, please just show some gameplay or a trailer with some meat on it.
Posted: Dec 3rd 2008 5:01PM (Unverified) said
i'm a little confused here... is this a straight up port of a pc game? and has it already released for pc?
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Posted: Dec 4th 2008 4:18AM (Unverified) said
This is not just a PC port. The whole code has been re-written for the consoles. The fighting has bees adjusted for pads, not mapped directly from keybords. Guys, this will be a completely new game, much improved.
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