Fans of the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful role-playing game “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” have been expressing their gratitude to Polish game developer CD Projekt Red for coming out with a standalone Gwent game recently, or at least a beta version that is.
The game is officially titled “Gwent: The Witcher Card Game” and according to CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwinski, the game development company has taken all the heart and energy from fans of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” and put it into the development of the stand-alone Gwent game.
In a recent statement, Iwinski said that the Gwent game was made possible because of the fans who have all contributed in supercharging CD Projekt Red to really push forward and develop the game, notes VG 24/7.
Iwinski thanked all “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” and Gwent fans for their efforts in inspiring CD Projekt Red to do it including the flood of e-mails, calls, forum posts, and everything else which the co-founder simply described as crazy.
He also recalled that there were moments when literally everything was beeping, buzzing, vibrating, and otherwise communicating only one idea – Gwent or nothing.
Iwinski said that they knew what the fans really wanted upon seeing at least 40 fan-made versions of Gwent, where people printed their own cards and made real wooden playing boards, which he says is a clear manifestation of positive madness on a Gwent game.
The beta of the Gwent card game is now released and Iwinski said fans and gamers should be generous enough to share their thoughts on the game so that the development team can improve on it prior to its full release.
Iwinski called on fans to help CD Projekt Red make the game truly theirs by helping them improve it the way fans would like it.
The official Gwent game is a multiple ten-hour single-player campaign but Iwinski said that he can’t wait to see how a version balanced for play against real people differs from the version found in “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” as the development company is doing everything to make Gwent’s boosters more fair than other multiplayer games.
Geralt of Rivia as a detective
The protagonist of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” Geralt of Rivia, uses his Witcher senses in a detective-like manner.
One gamer, who is also an artist by the name of Astor Alexander, recently re-imagined Geralt as a modern and suave detective and it really looks great, reports Gamespot.
But Alexander did not just create one but three posters of Geralt as a noir detective and those seem like they were from a noir detective movie based on “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.”
The posters also depict the characters of the popular video game in more modern ways while keeping their well-known traits alive. Geralt’s gun bears his five Witcher’s signs. There is also Triss who lights a cigarette with magic and they all wear modern clothing instead of the ones they do in the game.
In fact, the posters have prompted some critics to express their thoughts that CD Projekt Red should consider coming out with a detective game in the future.
Final expansion pack
Meanwhile, the final expansion pack to “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” has just come out on May 31 and critics have since been giving their reviews of it.
Officially titled “Blood & Wine,” the DLC brings loads of high-quality gameplay with more than 20 hours of additional content, much to the delight of gamers.
Typical with DLCs for “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” it also contains its fair share of fun little secrets, which is often referred to in gaming parlance as the game’s Easter eggs.