New Witcher Game Could Be Teasing Ciri As The Main Character
CD Projekt RED has announced a new installment in the critically acclaimed franchise The Witcher and Ciri could be the main character.The game is teased to be the coming of a new saga for The Witcher series, with only a teaser poster of a medallion with cat-like features having been shown so far. This could signal a shift from Geralt to Ciri as the protagonist of the next installment of the series, since Ciri's medallion has cat-like features as well.
The Witcher franchise has been a major player in the video game industry, originally based on the books written by Andrzej Sapkowski. The most recent major installment in the game series, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,was released in 2015 and continues to see success years after its launch. A TV series adaptation separate from the games has also been released by Netflix titled The Witcher. The franchise has seen great deals of success and after Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch back in 2020, it had been expected that CD Projekt RED would return to The Witcher sooner rather than later.
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Little is known about the new The Witcher project other than it'll be a "new saga" and CD Projekt has adopted Unreal Engine 5 for development following a partnership with Epic Games. This will give the game a brand new feel to players, as the past three games CD Projekt RED have developed within the past decade were on its own RED engine. This new Witcher series will mark the franchise's first dedicated next-gen offerings, following the release of a new upgraded version of The Witcher 3 sometime in 2022.
With Geralt's story in The Witcher now seemingly over, it would make sense for Ciri to be the main focus of the next game. The
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