14 DAY TRIAL // The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was one of the standouts of E3 2013, even if the game is about one year away from launch, and the team working on it at CD Projekt RED says that players should be prepared for a more adult experience than ever.
Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the game director working on the action role-playing game, tells Dualshockers that strife, social inequality and war made the game an adult-focused experience and not the romantic sequences that players could engage in.
He says, “Geralt will have the opportunity to engage in more intimate relations as well as the world will continue to be as gritty as before.”
At the same time, the main character will be even more masculine than before because he is no longer a pawn in vast political plots and has the freedom to deal with his own emotions and his past.
Konrad Tomaszkiewicz adds, “He doesn’t have the time to mind his appearance, he’s way more rugged and, dare I say it, even more masculine. Some heavy stuff is going to happen in The Wild Hunt, we wanted Geralt’s appearance to reflect that as well.”
The E3 2013 demo for the Witcher 3 showed the character dealing with a side-quest that involved some tough decisions and interesting consequences.
Geralt looks somewhat older than in the previous titles in the series but he is nimbler and more athletic in battle, able to dodge more attacks and quickly deliver killing blows to his enemies.
The story will focus on the Wild Hunt, a host of spectral enemies who attack humans in order to steal or kill them.
Geralt survived such an attack and will track the Hunt in order to save his long-lost love.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be out on the PC, the Xbox One from Microsoft and the PlayStation 4 from Sony at some point next year.