The Witcher 2 (PC) (360 soon)

[Flawless]

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Game Informer mentions the 360 will be getting over 4 hours of bonus content: new missions that feature new characters and locations. The plot for these missions revolves around the kidnapping of royal heirs.

[Jasong7777]

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Does anybody know when this game is coming out on the 360?

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Does anybody know when this game is coming out on the 360?

And is it going to be censored for the home console market...

[Fresh Tendrils]

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What's the rating on the PC release?

[trobinson97]

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What's the rating on the PC release?

It's Mature.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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It's Mature.

Violence, nudity, language...anything else?

[choadler]

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Violence, nudity, language...anything else?

sexual content.

[goh]

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http://kotaku.com/5878557/learn-all-...-this-thursday

Info on 360 version thursday through livestream.

[Altimus]

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Skyrim, this and ME3 all in such a short window. Great time.

[Flawless]

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The Witcher 2 Xbox 360 release date announced

The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition launches worldwide for Xbox 360 on 17th April, developer CD Projekt has announced.

The developer has added a raft of new features and insists it's the "most polished and definitive version of the game".

Here's a summary of what you can expect from the console release:

• New CGI intro sequence
• 33 minutes of new cinematics
• Four additional hours of gameplay
• Two new adventures
• New characters
• New locations
• Revamped intelligent camera system
• New target locking system
• Improved Character Panel
• New panels navigation bar
• More responsive control system

The game, priced at £44.99, comes on two discs and also includes a quest handbook, official soundtrack and world map.

If all that's not enough, CD Projekt is also offering a deluxe Dark Edition for £59.99. That comes in a handsome special edition box and adds an art book, three stickers, a medallion and a 'making of' DVD.

A PC version of the Enhanced Edition also launches on 17th April, while all those who already own the game get all the new additional content via a free update on the same day.

Kotaku Preview: The Witcher 2 on Xbox 360 is, Thankfully, Still Very Much The Witcher 2

Furthermore, the controls lent themselves to the Xbox 360 controller very well. In fact, the game seemed to have been designed with the controller in mind; menus featured button-specific prompts, and the entire game, including the menus, could be navigated with a controller.

The new version is much the same, with some slight but noticeable tweaks to the control layout. The button-mapping is somewhat different; face-buttons are more in line with a typical console game (A replaces X as the interact button, Y replaces B to cast signs), and targeting is now tied to the left trigger. The interface, too, has changed, with a page-based pause interface that lets you flip through your map, journal, and inventory just like in any other console RPG. It all feels and works better, though doesn't change things too much in practice. The guys from CD Projekt Red weren't sure whether the remapped controls would come to the PC version, but I hope that they do.

I'll get this out of the way—despite the good-looking screenshots you'll see in this post, The Witcher 2 for 360 does not look as good as its PC counterpart. No huge surprise there, since no feat of programming on earth could get an Xbox 360 game looking as good as The Witcher 2 running on Ultra or High on a current PC. But that's not to say it looks bad—while the lighting effects and high-res textures did serve to make the PC version look jaw-droppingly good, much of The Witcher 2 PC's look derived from a lush, well-realized art style. That art style carries over to the new game. If you hadn't played The Witcher 2 on PC, you'd probably never notice that it doesn't look as good as it could. The only thing that sorta bummed me out was that Geralt himself looks a bit... gaunt? Drawn? At times, he looks looks younger and just... different than he did in the PC version, like some of the character has been leeched from his face. But really, don't let that bum you out—Xbox players won't even notice.

What's great is that everything else is essentially unchanged. You'll get the same twisty, shades-of-grey story, all of the quests, all of the big descisions, all of the lusty, sexful exploits.

The Witcher 2 on Xbox 360 is very much the same excellent game that PC players got to play last year, lightened a bit in the graphics department but in most every other respect identical. I'll note that while I was at the event, I had a good time listening to the gentlemen behind me, writers for a to-remain-nameless Xbox-centric magazine, who were playing The Witcher 2 for the first time. I recalled my own first encounter with the game as I listened to them wrestle with its unforgiving difficulty and rough combat edges.

"How do you replenish your health in combat?" asked one.

"You don't," said the PR rep.

Yep, that's The Witcher 2 alright.

Joystiq

CD Projekt Red plans to support The Witcher 2 on Xbox 360 post-launch, updating the game based on player feedback and even offering new content on top of the new stuff on-disc. "It's very hard to give players something for free on Xbox 360, so we had to come to a decision," said combat designer Maciej Szczesnik. "Do we want to give players the game earlier without the content or do we want to give them everything? We wanted the game to be richer and have all of the content from PC, and even more content."

"We're not going to stop our support of the game after launch," level artist Marek Ziemak added. "We're launching the Xbox 360 version, but we'll continue to work on both titles parallel, creating some extra stuff and trying to give some extra stuff to players. We never fire and forget; it's against our philosophy."

Szczesnik told me that the Xbox 360 version's graphics are most comparable to The Witcher 2 running on medium settings on the PC.

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[Fresh Tendrils]

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17th of April? Haha, nice end of tax season present.

[Cubfan]

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Already preordered from amazon.com.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Its reassuring to know that besides the obvious graphical changes for the Xbox that the rest of the game is practically unchanged.

[Spongedaddy]

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I wish they would give us the collector's edition on the 360. I stopped playing the PC version when I heard about the 360 one.

[choadler]

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I wish they would give us the collector's edition on the 360. I stopped playing the PC version when I heard about the 360 one.

Really? Why? The Witcher 2 was fantastic. I wouldn't be able to resist.