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Witcher casts a spell on US

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Feb 5, 2007 8:13 am PT

RPG to be published by Atari in North America along with Europe.

Last September, Atari stated that it would be distributing The Witcher in Europe and Asia, but no news was given as to what its plans were stateside. Now, Atari has finally announced an agreement with CD Projekt for it to publish the action orientated role-playing PC game in North America, as well.

The Witcher casts players as Geralt, a monster slayer with supernatural abilities, in a world "rife with political intrigue, in which the lines of good and evil are blurred." The game is based on the world created by best-selling Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski in his novels. One of the boasts of the developers is that during the twists and turns of the plot, decisions made by the gamer will drastically change the outcome of the story.

The game, currently due for a Q2 European launch, will be released in North America this fall under the Games for Windows banner. For more information on the game, read GameSpot's full coverage.

51 Comments

  • ktseymour

    Posted Feb 7, 2007 11:33 am PT

    I have to agree with the people that want this game to come to the 360 but... on the other hand , Big'n hard needs to keep some games exclusive to the PC, and for heavens sake... actually do some marketing for the PC games market.

  • Salvius

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 8:05 pm PT

    "Orientated"?

  • Gmacrusher

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 6:51 pm PT

    eheh Cool i guess!

  • LosDaddie

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 8:47 am PT

    Cool!

  • epormada

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 6:58 am PT

    Wow, I just looked at some pics of this game for the first time and it looks like this game has a lot of potential.

  • epormada

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 6:53 am PT

    Crew_SK, because the 360 is awesome, it's Microsoft, and most PC titles get ported to xbox. i.e. Doom3 and Half Life 2 on original xbox.

  • Crew_SK

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 6:41 am PT

    this is PC only.. why does everyone talk about a 360 port?

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 6:38 am PT

    Sounds cool, but even in NWN2 you can "change the outcome of the story." Well, not "drastically", but...

  • blackIceJoe

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 9:49 pm PT

    If this comes out on the 360 this is great news but if not I will have to get it on the PC. So I hope it comes out on the 360.

  • vamroc

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 9:38 pm PT

    Great another 360 port waiting in the wings oh yeah bring it on.

  • Alcotamaysees

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 7:10 pm PT

    Haven't seen alot of this game, so I'll hold judgement.

    @protoman. Different games man. Different genres too (I think.)

  • protoman170776

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 5:49 pm PT

    I finally know the name now. Is this the same game as bullet witch or r they talking about a different game.

  • protoman170776

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 5:19 pm PT

    Is this the witch blade(I think thats the name) or are they talking about something else.

  • ryokinshin6x3

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 4:37 pm PT

    gona watch for this game, looks interesting

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 3:53 pm PT

    I didn't even know this game existed until now.

  • FallenAngel

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 2:16 pm PT

    Sweet, this game always looked pretty cool to me.

  • Darkstrauss

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 1:40 pm PT

    hmmm, well lets hope atari does right by this one. NWN2 was just about the only thing last year that spiked my interest, and though it was awesome, it wasn't as friendly to users as NWN was.... lets hope it all pans out and atari rejoins the greats.

  • FiZiKz19

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 1:25 pm PT

    sounds different...i'll prolly buy it!

  • Pete5506

    Posted Feb 5, 2007 1:17 pm PT

    looks different

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