The Witcher Enhanced Edition

The Witcher Enhanced Edition game for pc At GDC 2008, CDProjekt announced an enhanced version of the game which was released on September 16, 2008. The significant changes featured in the enhanced version are over 200 new animations, additional NPC models and recoloring of generic NPC models as well as monsters, vastly expanded and corrected dialogues in translated versions, improved stability, redesigned


inventory system and load times reduced by roughly 80%.[28][29][30] In addition all bugs are said to be fixed and the game manual completely overhauled. There are also two new adventures available to play through: Side Effects and The Price of Neutrality. A new option is to mix and match ten different languages of voice and subtitles. For instance, players can now choose to play the game with Polish voices and English subtitles. Other featured languages are Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Czech, Hungarian and Chinese.

The Witcher Enhanced Edition also introduced some problems, most notably the “Cutscenes causing blurred graphics” bug which was not present in earlier versions of the game. The bug manifests in a way that all textures become blurred immediately after the player exits any cutscene or dialog, and remain blurred until the game is reloaded. On December 23, 2008 CDProjekt released a hotfix that addresses the issue, as well as fixing problems with EAX technology.[31]

Aside from the game enhancements, The Witcher Enhanced Edition includes a “making of” DVD, a CD with 29 in-game soundtracks, another CD with “Inspired by” music, the short story The Witcher from the book The Last Wish, a map of Temeria printed on high quality paper, and the official strategy guide. In addition, a new and enhanced version of the D’jinni Adventure Editor is on the DVD with the two new Adventures. The game updates, as well as the box’s extras, are available as a free download for owners of the original version who registered their game on the official forum. Furthermore, old savegames are compatible with the Enhanced Edition According to CD Project co-founder Michal Kicinski, the Enhanced Edition required a $1 million investment, and the company has shipped 300,000 copies of the retail version worldwide as of December 2008 33

As of August 1, 2009, the cumulative Metacritic score of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition was 86% based on 29 reviews
CD Projekt released a Director’s Cut version of the game on 31 of July 2009, for the North American market. It is equal to the Enhanced Edition available to the rest of the world, but without the censorship applied to the North American version.[35] For the moment it is only available online.[36] The company has released an official uncensored patch that makes the North American version the same as the international for those who have purchased a boxed version of the game. It can be found at Thewitcher.com Console version

On November 29, 2008 a video covering the console version of the game was uploaded on the Internet by an anonymous person. On December 2, CD Projekt Red officially confirmed that The Witcher will be ported to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles and released as The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf

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