Witcher 3's Hero Geralt Is a "Relatively Handsome Man," Dev Says

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red has addressed the handsomeness of main character Geralt of Rivia. Is Geralt supposed to be good-looking? Is that what The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski envisioned when he created the character?

"The truth is, [Geralt] was a relatively handsome man," CD Projekt Red's Michal Platkow-Gilewski told Eurogamer. "He could have love affairs with a lot of women--that's in the books, and the same happens in our games." If Geralt was depicted as a nastier man, "you couldn't achieve that," Platkow-Gilewski said.

Platkow-Gilewski acknowledged that previous installments in The Witcher series weren't as kind to Geralt from a looks perspective. "Maybe we were looking for a perfect proportion of his face [in The Witcher 3] and in previous installments we weren't there," he said.

He went on to say that "there is no canonical Geralt face," and this was the first time someone had addressed the possibility that Geralt was potentially too handsome for a man who fights monsters in all manner of deadly environments every day.

Eurogamer also asked Platkow-Gilewski if making Geralt handsome in The Witcher 3 could help bring more people to the series. "It was not like, 'Hey guys, let's make him super-handsome.' We were just looking for this look where he is strong, he looks like a predator, especially with his eyes," he said. "Maybe the beard is doing the job."

The Witcher 3 launches in February 2015 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Earlier this week, CD Projekt Red released a gorgeous new trailer for the game, which you can watch right here.

Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on Twitter @EddieMakuch