The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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| Developer(s) | CD Projekt RED |
| Publisher(s) | CD Projekt RED |
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| Designer(s) | Grzegorz Mocarski |
| Artist(s) | Marian Chomiak |
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| Series | The Witcher |
| Engine | REDengine 3 |
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Metacritic | (PC) 93/100 (PS4) 92/100 (XONE) 91/100 |
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| Destructoid | 8/10 |
| Edge | 8/10 |
| Game Informer | 9.75/10 |
| Game Revolution |    |
| GameSpot | 10/10 |
| GamesRadar | |
| GameTrailers | 9.8/10 |
| IGN | 9.3/10 |
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| PC Gamer (US) | 92/100 |
| Polygon | 8/10 |
| VideoGamer.com | 9/10 |
| AusGamers | 10/10 |
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt RED. Announced in February 2013, it was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2015. The game is the third in the series, preceded by The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which are based on the series of fantasy novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
Played in an open world third-person perspective, players control protagonist Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter known as a witcher, who seeks his missing lover and his adopted daughter, who are on the run from a group known as the "Wild Hunt". In the game, players battle against the world's many dangers using weapons and magic, while interacting with non-player characters and completing side quests and main missions to progress through the story.
The game was met with critical acclaim, with critics praising its narrative, world design, combat and visuals, and was a financial success, selling over six million copies in six weeks. The game won multiple Game of the Year awards from various gaming publications, critics, and award events, with some calling it the best role-playing game of all time. Two critically successful expansion packs were also released for the game, titled Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an action role-playing game set in an open world environment which is more than 30 times larger than previous Witcher games, necessitating the use by players to sail by boat to some locations and ride on horseback to others. Fast traveling to already-visited locations, however, is also possible. The open world in The Witcher 3 was described before release to be "20% bigger than Skyrim". Many actions the player performs affect the world, with many of the quests having a number of options on how to complete them, and differing outcomes. CD Projekt RED anticipated approximately 100 hours for the completion of the game, with half of them belonging to side quests, and the other half belonging to the main story.
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