“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” the third and likely the last installment to the very successful open-world action role-playing video game “The Witcher” will be officially released to the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, and the Windows PC on May 19, 2015.
Crafted by Polish game developer CD Projekt Red, “The Witcher 3: Witch Hunt” promises gamers over 100 hours of action in an open-world environment that is 30 times larger than its predecessor, “The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings,” notes The Independent.
“The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings” was such a critically-acclaimed video game thriller, with hardly any flaws, that it is already expected by gaming enthusiasts that “The Witcher 3: Witch Hunt” would continue with the romp and possibly become the best role-playing game of 2015.
Exciting and engrossing
CD Projekt Red has allowed several video game experts and critics to play the game recently and the reviews to the open-world fantasy video game were mostly positive.
They all find it very exciting and also engrossing that they would not settle for mere second servings when the game is officially released some four months down the road.
CD Projekt Red based the game from the series of fantasy novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. It’s the story of witcher Geralt of Rivia who is on a personal quest while the world order comes to a change.
Geralt’s new mission happens at a time when the mysterious dark army known as the Wild Hunt invades the Northern Kingdoms that left blood-soaked earth and fiery ruins in its wake. Geralt will realize eventually that he will also be the key to stopping the cataclysmic rampage of the Wild Hunt.
New elements and new excitement everywhere
Because it is an open-world game, gamers have all the tactical freedom to move around. CD Projekt Red incorporated new elements to the game, most of them surprising, that added new excitement and thrills to the already-exciting video game.
There are hidden items in the map and monster-hunters can now fight while riding a horse. They could also swim under water and use the crossbow to tackle griffins while maintaining that dodging maneuver previous seen in the past two video games.
Regardless of the routes a gamer takes on the game, there will be repercussions or after effects. It could be positive or it could be negative. That’s the exciting part of playing it. But for those conformist types of gamers, they can go through the standard storyline and avoid themselves of playing more than 100 hours just to finish the game but instead settle for about 50 hours.
The fighting skills of the game’s main protagonist Geralt remains the same, his quick jabs with the sword that go well with powerful strikes. And there’s also the standard skills meter to check what other abilities or skills that a gamer can use while in battle.
“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” is now being touted as the video game that could define the year for role-playing games. Chances are, it could very well do.