At the end of October, CD Projekt RED unexpectedly announced what Projekt Canis Majoris, one of the upcoming games from the Witcher universe, will be. It turned out that it will be a remake of the first installment, originally released in 2007. At that time, it was emphasized that it would be a completely rebuilt title based on Unreal Engine 5. Yesterday evening, a new financial report was announced, during which two more details about the project were shed light.

During the announcement of the new financial report, CD Projekt RED announced some information about the planned projects from the Witcher universe. We already know that the remake of the first game will throw us into a fully open world this time, which may indicate far-reaching changes to the game.

The Witcher Remake is in development on Unreal Engine 5. CD Projekt RED announces details of the mysterious Project Canis Majoris

In multimedia presentation from the CD Projekt RED studio, there is a slide about The Witcher Remake. There was a short note that the title will take place in a fully open world and it will be a modern version of the same classic from 2007. The information about the introduction of a fully open world is very interesting, as it may indicate far-reaching changes compared to the original. The Witcher was a semi-open-scale title, where the production was divided into specific acts, within which we moved around smaller locations. For example, in the prologue it was Kaer Morhen, in Act I we had Outskirts, in Acts II and III we visited the Temple Quarter (Acts II and III), the Trade Quarter (Act III only) and the Swamp (Acts II and III), while chapter IV flips us to the area of ​​the Odmety village.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on the first concrete comparison of Ultra PC and Ultra Plus from the Next-gen edition

Perhaps this time, apart from the Prologue and the Epilogue, we will have much more freedom in moving around the areas around Vizima and the Depths, which at the same time could also affect major changes in the plot itself, where this freedom would also be specifically motivated. There is no doubt that the scale of the project will be much larger compared to the original game. However, we will have to wait a long time for the premiere of The Witcher Remake. CD Projekt RED confirmed that the first game from the new trilogy, which the producer is working on, will first debut. The graphic above also shows that the number of studio developers moving to the new Witcher (which will also be built on Unreal Engine 5) is growing every quarter.

Source: CD Projekt RED