14 DAY TRIAL // Given the quality of the E3 presentations that the team at CD Projekt RED has been delivering for the past few years, I know that there are some attendees who would not mind seeing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt delayed for another year. But the studio has made it clear that the final title featuring Geralt is coming in 2015 and that it is shaping to be one of the most spectacular experiences of the coming 12 months.
This time, the team is taking players to Novigrad, the biggest city in the world of the fantasy setting, in order to start a quest to track down an elusive young woman that's very important to Geralt.
CD Projekt RED wants to show the improved combat of The Witcher 3, both against monster and human enemies, and the more fluid way that the main character can move through the world, with the option to jump, vault over obstacles and even swim to get to inaccessible places.
A new crossbow has also been added to the arsenal of Geralt in order to give him more options when he faces certain types of enemies.
The complex quest system of the series has also been improved, giving the player even more situations where he needs to weigh his options and choose carefully how he deals with certain situations and NPCs and how he changes the world around him.
CD Projekt RED wants alternative to be one of the key words for the final Witcher title and the ambiguity is clearly demonstrated with a quest that involves the Crones, a godling without a voice and a mysterious tree-based monster.
The final moments of the E3 2014 The Witcher 3 also suggest that the mystery woman might be one of the most important players in a coming showdown that also involves the player, the Nilfgard empire and the powerful and feared Wild Hunt.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt also seems to be looking better and better, with plenty of detail for all the characters and the monsters, and spectacular effects when it comes to combat, associated with both the signs that Geralt uses and the ways the enemies die when defeated.
The music and voice work is also very solid and shows the high stakes of the coming adventure.
The only thing that I regret is that CD Projekt RED has not offered its fans the opportunity to actually get hands-on with the title.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be launched on February 24 of next year on the PlayStation 4 from Sony, the PC and the Xbox One from Microsoft.