Thu, Mar 25, 2010 | 16:58 GMT
Screens – The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
CD Projekt RED has released some screens from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and you can get the lot below the break.
Looks mighty fine so far.
You can also check out the new videos through here.
Game’s out during Q1 2011 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
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Tags: Assassins of Kings, CD Projekt red, geralt, the witcher, the witcher 2, the witcher 2: assassins of kings
15 comments
#1
Phoenixblight
25/03/10, 5:20 pm
Still looks like its on the Aurora Engine. They didn’t have the money to spend it on a better engine?
#2
Stephany Nunneley
25/03/10, 5:43 pm
They updated the engine, according to the devs, plus all of this is still rather rough and still needs polishing from what they keep saying.
#3
Phoenixblight
25/03/10, 5:46 pm
How much updated can it really be? Bioware already put the Eclipse engine which was used on DAO. Guess work with what you know. Hopefully they actually test it this time.
#4
Stephany Nunneley
25/03/10, 5:48 pm
I just just never figured out why the original never ran well on either the PC or laptop, and the laptop has excellent specs – or did last year.
Maybe I just had the graphics too high.
#5
Phoenixblight
25/03/10, 5:52 pm
My PC was beyond the specs still had memory leak and constant crashing. Even with all the patches it still did it just did it less frequently.
#6
Stephany Nunneley
25/03/10, 6:25 pm
Same here. I still loved it though.
#7
endgame
25/03/10, 6:40 pm
played on med to high on a an average lappy. and it never crashed. idk why u guys had problems with it.
as for the engine, Phoenix seriously dude. r u telling me that the difference between tw1 engine and this one is small? it’s sky high. and u can see that from the screenshots only. and after u see the dev diary movie u realize it’s even higher. they also got advanced physics now. this one is much much better. not that the first one was too bad. it just needed a bit more optimization.
#8
Phoenixblight
25/03/10, 7:22 pm
I looked at the screens and watched the dev video, it doesn’t look like its much of a difference besides the physics.
#9
TomisH
25/03/10, 7:50 pm
12 shots have been released, you guys have got 8. The rest of them can be found here: http://www.gamikaze.pl/Galerie/The_Witcher_2_Assassins_of_Kings_PC_Galeria_1.aspx
Btw – the engine is proprietary. CDP RED created it themselves.
#10
Mauller
25/03/10, 8:06 pm
I still need to go back and finish this game. It was such an awesome experience but my gamer ADD took over and I bounced between too many games and didn’t get back to it.
#11
Phoenixblight
25/03/10, 8:36 pm
@9
You are right they did kick the Aurora engine good for them. Even though I have been whinning about the game, I can’t wait. While the original was good it had huge flaws with it like the ones I previously stated. Hopefully they can pull it off.
#12
Keivz
26/03/10, 1:41 am
Looks miles ahead of tw1 to me. Looks more like uncharted 2 tbh. Here’s hoping the sys req are not through the roof.
#13
Dannybuoy
26/03/10, 7:09 am
Is that David Beckham to the right?
#14
fearmonkey
26/03/10, 11:10 pm
If they can have graphics on consoles that approach the screenshots that evidently came from PC, this will be a real treat. The interface was very PC oriented, i hope they dont dumb it down to have both versions the same.
I wish the white wolf console version would have made it sniff sniff…
I’m not sure I understand the complaints about the Aurora Engine on the first game, on my pc, with the highest res and everything bumped up, it looked amazing.
#15
Phoenixblight
27/03/10, 12:50 am
They made new engine in house so it could be scaleable just like Crystal Tools. That shows that they have a plan to release on console.