The Witcher 4, starring Ciri, announced at the Game Awards
Fans of the Witcher series were treated to a treat at The Game Awards 2024 in Los Angeles on Thursday: a six-minute trailer unveiling The Witcher 4, prominently featuring the adult Ciri, the adopted daughter of Geralt of Rivia.
Geralt was nowhere to be found in the trailer, which doesn’t mean he’s not in the game. But Ciri will take center stage as the game’s protagonist, CD Projekt Red noted in a press release. While there was no gameplay in the trailer, it focused on the essence of Witcher games: using steel and silver swords with some magic (along with a new chain weapon) to take down gruesome monsters.
Although Studio CD Projekt Red described the trailer as a short story, suggesting it may not reflect the game’s plot, it contained themes that will likely be reflective of the game: a young village girl is prepared for a ritual sacrifice to a local monster, which Ciri steps in to kill. But when she returns to the villagers, she finds the girl dead amid calls for gods, to which the white-hooded Witcher angrily says, “There are no gods here, only monsters.” Chills!
While the studio didn’t show any gameplay, the studio noted that the trailer was created using assets and models from the game itself. CD Project Red also teased that it was built in Unreal Engine 5 on “an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU.”
CD Projekt Red has not announced a release date or indication of when the game will be released, nor what platforms it will be released on.
