Director’s Cut of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Now Available
After many, many months of complaining by US based fans, CD Projekt has finally released a patch that is considered the Director’s Cut of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.
When The Witcher was first released in Europe, it was a rather raw game, with a fair amount of female nudity in the game, in the form of playing cards that you received when you would bed a female. However, when the game came to the US, Atari felt that there was no way that Americans could possibly handle the sight of bare breasts in a video game, so they decided to grab screenshots of Stephen and censor those cards. Well maybe not with Stephen Munn’s face, but they did censor them with “strategic covering”
With two years past, it seems that America is finally ready for some video game nudity, and the patch will give US players the same game that the European audience has been playing for some time now. Yay. Of course, people could have just imported a European version of the game, but now you don’t have to worry about currency conversion!
Check the jump for the full press release plus links to the download if you already own the game.
DIRECTOR’S CUT OF THE WITCHER: ENHANCED EDITION NOW AVAILABLE IN NORTH AMERICA
Who: Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, announced today that new content will be available for The Witcher: Enhanced Edition for Windows PC.
What: The game as the developers, CD Projekt RED, intended with mature content only released outside of North America – until now! The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut is now available for download at www.atari.com and other major digital distribution outlets. This new Director’s Cut content is available as both a patch for The Witcher: Enhanced Edition as well as a full game download.
The Witcher, originally released October 2007, has won more than 100 awards and has sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition brought the game close to perfection, with more than 5000 lines of re-written and re-recoded dialogue, more than 200 new dialogue animations, a new character differentiation system for NPCs, an enhanced inventory with improved alchemy, reduced loading times, improved combat responsiveness and two new adventures. AND NOW, with the release of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut, the game is available in its entirety to North American audiences.
When: The downloadable content is available starting today JULY 31, 2009
Where: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut game and patch are available at ATARI.com, Steam (steampowered.com), Impulse (impulsedriven.com) and Direct2Drive. The patch is also available at TheWitcher.com.
Why: Representing the pinnacle of storytelling in role-playing games, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut shatters the line between good and evil in a world where moral ambiguity reigns. In a beautiful, rich game universe, the player takes on the role of renowned monster slayer, Geralt of Rivia, in an epic, action-packed narrative in which his decisions have a major impact on how the story plays out. The Witcher emphasizes story and character development in a vibrant world, while incorporating tactically-deep real-time combat like few games before it.
Recent Comments