Dark colors, much darker than the original, colorful Witcher 1. Is it a new engine or a modified Aurora plus Havoc? Looks promising…
“Of course, we can’t and won’t try to deny the facts. The movie that appeared on the various sites yesterday presents our newest project, The Witcher 2, which we’ve been working on for some time. We made something about half year ago, to present the first playable version of the game.” said Adam Kiciński, CEO of CD Projekt RED. “Currently we are looking for a potential publisher (or publishers) for this title, and this leak is an uncontrolled side effect of that process. For today, we are not commenting on anything that concerns the game itself.”
More information about The Witcher 2 will be unveiled alongside the official announcement.
I must say that I had a fright when Geralt opened his mouth. The original Geralt voice worked very well for me…
New engine?
I STRONGLY doubt that, since pretty much everything looks identical in terms of how the engine handled stuff in the presentation. Havoc stuff added, obviously, but otherwise - nah.
Maybe a modified Aurora, but there's no way that's an entirely new engine.
I'm sure the VO is placeholder - a couple of them sounded like the devs themselves. It also very common for publishers to handle voice work and, presumably, they're not even close to that stage.
They did say some time back that it was new, and the Engine doesn't necessarily make
the looks of the game, The renderer and the art assets (textures,models).
So bearing in mind that RED rewrote the renderer for #1 and is obviously reusing a lot
of assets… Still Im with you that they didn't start from scratch (renderer aside) why
not reuse known technology (I bet even PB did it to some extent despite Genome
being a big ugly mess). Not to mention that they couldn't have been up and running
with the new eye candy so quickly…
Also let me point out that they used a seriously modified Aurora for #1 too…
Exactly. How modified can an engine be and still be considered the same engine?
I don't give a rats ass what engine it is anyways, it's not important. What's important is that they manage to recreate the same atmosphere that made The Witcher so special.
I don't know What would you wanna bet ?
Seriously though I am set that this is the same Renderer (a module that if designed
correctly can be ported to any engine) as #1 its their code after all…
Also let me point out that they used a seriously modified Aurora for #1 too…
This could be just its evolution…
So what are we playing for ?
I think you guys are confusing caring about facts, with caring about what engine is used.
But if you can't make the distinction, I won't push the point