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What's been enhanced in the Witcher's new edition?

by Nick Haywood on 19 August 2008, 09:31

Tags: Atari (EPA:ATA), PC, RPG

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Available across Europe in September, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, the PC role-playing opus from Polish development studio CD Projekt RED,  is an improved, enhanced and expanded version of the game.

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition will be presented in a high-quality package, bound in a luxury embossed box set featuring a wealth of high-value extra content including additional adventures, music from and inspired by the game, re-mastered making of feature, a short story by the creator of The Witcher Andrej Sapkowski and much more.

Technical enhancements include faster loading times alongside improved combat responsiveness and precision. Following feedback from fans, the English script has been re-worked, while extensive amounts of the voice-over has been re-recorded for the English and German versions, all to deliver an even more immersive and involving story experience.

All of the enhancements will be available as a free download to existing game owners via the game’s official website, www.thewitcher.com.

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition will be available in a content-packed box set, the full contents of which include:

• Multilanguage The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, a reworking of the best PC RPG game of 2007;• DVD bonus disc including the D’jinni Adventure Editor and two brand new adventures created by CD Projekt Red:
- the D’jinni Adventure Editor: allows players to create or modify their own adventures in the world of The Witcher;
- "The Price of Neutrality": the adventure tells the story of Geralt coming back to Kaer Morhen and finding a mysterious camp near the stronghold (featuring 3 new quests);
- “Side Effects”: the first ever release of this new adventure which focuses on Geralt's close friend, Dandelion, and his troubles in Vizima City (featuring 5 new quests);
• Remastered “Making Of” documentary with never-before-seen bonus material;
• Soundtrack CD of original music written specifically for The Witcher;
• CD of original music inspired by The Witcher;
• Instruction manual and game guide;
• Short story by Andrej Sapkowski featuring new art from the Monsterbook;
• A map for exploration throughout The Witcher ’s world.

For more information about The Witcher visit www.thewitcher.com



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Been a while coming this one now. I have only played throughb the first bits of the game, going through the sewers to kill he big bird thing then into the town and the doctors house. At this point heard about the enhanced edition and stopped playing and decided to wait for the update.

So will finally get going with it, loved what I have played through so far. Loading times was a bit of a big thing, patches did seem to speed things up a little but still not great. Hopefully it will be completely fixed in this huge update. Read somewhere that the update for the origional version owners is going to come in at around 1.7 Gb download.
Yes it's about that, though they were talking about doing a cheap upgrade version if you wanted a physical disc and all the maps/books/CDs etc.

Definitely worth playing through more than once, so take one of the paths this time round and use the update as an excuse for doing one of the other two :p
Yeah, I didn't go with the woman in the first section of the game and fought the monster in the courtyard. Going to follow her this time round. There was also a quest that I didn't manage to finish because I had done another quest to completion in the section with the hell hounds, this other quest stopped the other one so had a knock on effect. Also going to try talking to the dwarf in a different way this time as he fell out with me!!!

I really like it, at least its not long now to be playing through it :)