You have to respect developer CD Projekt. They came from seemingly out of nowhere, used an aging Aurora engine (developed by Bioware) and created a tight, well made, entertaining adult RPG (The Witcher) that sold somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 copies. Not bad for PC numbers. CD Projekt has been hard at work, and after releasing patch 1.3, they put their shoulders to the wheel and started working on their Director’s Cut version of The Witcher.

Improvements over the original vanilla are quite numerous: over 200 new animations; additional NPC models and recoloring of generic NPC models as well as monsters; vastly expanded and corrected dialogues in translated versions; improved stability and load times reduced by roughly 80 percent; all bugs are said to be fixed and the game manual completely overhauled; added two new adventures available for players to play through; added a new option to mix and match eight different languages of voice and subtitles; plus MANY more box extras.

To those of you that registered the game in their official forums you can download the update by itself. The update will be roughly 2 gigs in size. And the best part: OLD SAVED GAMES WILL BE BACKWARDS COMPATABLE!

- Ralph Tricoche