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Witcher 3 Box Art Leaked

Xbox One, PS4, and PC box art for CD Projekt Red's upcoming RPG revealed; plus, bonuses include game map, soundtrack, and more.

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Image credit: Videogamer
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Ahead of CD Projekt Red's annual summer conference later today, the box art and what appear to be the preorder bonuses for upcoming role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have leaked. The back page of the latest issue of trade publication MCV contains the image you see above, captured by Videogamer.

As you'd expect, a fierce-looking Geralt dominates the box art, which we see is the same for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC versions of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. There's a selection of bonus items also featured in the image, including a game map, stickers, official soundtrack, a Witcher Universe Compendium, and a game manual. It appears these are preorder bonuses.

CD Projekt Red's surprises today were not entirely spoiled, as the developer also plans to announce a Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Collector's Edition during its livestream event, which kicks off at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT. You can watch the event live on GameSpot.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launches in February 2015 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. United States president Barack Obama recently mentioned "The Witcher" during an address in Poland, saying the franchise--developed in Poland--is a great example of how the country contributes to the global economy.

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Looking good.

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To those who haven't played but want to get into The Witchers. Here's what you need to know.

- It's not harder than Dark Souls, but just like it, it isn't a button masher. If you play it on the highest difficulty you'll have to be meticulous. You have to use potion, and oils to coat your sword with. You have to learn about the creatures you are fighting by either finding books or talking to people who know about the monster, so you can learn what they are vulnerable to. If you go into a fight not knowing, you will most likely get fucked.

It would be like fighting a vampire without knowing the whole wood stake in the heart thing, you're going to have a hard time. So it's more about knowledge than it is about "difficulty". You have to be smart about how you approach things.


- If you're going to play this. Play The Witcher 1 and 2. Even if there is a summary of what happen in the previous games. You need to get accustomed to the characters and know them. Bond with them, because this game will ask you to make very hard decisions, decisions that aren't black or white. It's not just about clicking on the "good guy" dialogue or the "bad guy" dialogue. The choices are morally ambiguous. If you're not attached to the character you won't enjoy it as much. Also if you skip through the dialogues, don't bother playing it.



I started with The Witcher 2 and couldn't get into it. Went back tried the first one and instantly got hooked. You know how Game of Thrones play with you by killing characters you get attached too. This is a bit the same, except sometimes... it's your fault -_- which fucks with you more. "Damnit! I knew I shouldn't have gone ahead to try and stop "bad guy" from escaping, I should've stayed and fought.". If you don't know the characters you won't care if they die. But if you have been through battles with them, you'll feel close to them and if they betray you... you'll feel more than just "Okay he was a good guy now, he's a bad guy, time to kill him"
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Now that I know the date its coming out, now I can start saving to buy a PS4 when this game comes out.

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"Leaked" means that it was released to the public before the distributor wanted it to be. "Announced" or "revealed" would have been more accurate terms.

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Geralt is one sexy a$s mothaf%cka

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Don't like background it's way to simple.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> anything else besides a solid color would be way too busy and take away the focal point, which is Geralt. It's actually well done, from a graphic design perspective. ;)

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Remember back in the day when EVERY game used to give you cool stuff like this? Well, PC Games anyway and you paid less for the game?

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Looks awesome, it seems that the W2 haircut is back again :)

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It's box art, who cares.

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I've heard this series is insanely difficult, even harder than Dark Souls. I'm a filthy casual, will I like this game series?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's challening at first until you get the hang of it. I played it on 360 and my only regret is not going back to side with the humans. I can't remember their name. I sided with the elves and the story was completely changed and different locations were given to explore than what it would have been with the humans. It's a damn fine game.

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@themc_7 Excluding putting it on the highest difficulty, it's only difficult if you play like a nub, since this is one of those rare games that actually require you to use your brain a bit.


Otherwise give it a go, for all you know this might be the game to get you into the deeper stuff like Planescape and Gothic and whatnot :)



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<< LINK REMOVED >> You heard wrong.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's certainly not a hack'n'slash game but in my opinion it has better RPG experience than Dark Souls and you'll begin to love the combat once you get the hang of it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >>The Witcher 2 has a good story to it. It's not very difficult even on the hardest difficulty settings. The hardest part of the game was learning the swamp monsters moves. If you play through in normal/easy, you'll master the mechanics and have no trouble with higher difficulty levels.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yes, it's only harder than Dark Souls if you play on Nightmare(I think that's the highest difficulty..) I like challenge but I don't like dying over and over and over again so I'm playing on easy and it's still pretty tough. It's an amazing series with a fantastic storyline so it's well worth it both for the story, combat and experience.

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Eh, it could've be better

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<< LINK REMOVED >> me fail english. that umpossible

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not fit to EPIC game like Witcher 3

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The box art is cheesy as hell. This game will likely be amazing, and it deserves a better looking cover...oh well. Looking forward to it regardless

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Not gonna lie. I'm excited for the game, but i'm not a fan of these box arts where yuo simply put the main character in frontal view.


I really would have prefered the title like it is, with the CD Projekt Red side faced worlf and black background instead of white.


But whatever, the game's going to be probably be awesome. Give it me!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It probably was not up to them and was up to the marketing team that has the responsibility to get the consumer to pick up and buy the game if they don't know what it is, just based on the box art. It's a mean looking badass dude with a weapon. That will unfortunately appeal to lots of people. Mostly guys. A better box art could have existed certainly but they took the safe route in marketing this for sure.

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So the gog.com edition has DLC with it? normally I would complain but these guys I don't mind them getting more money from me.

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Without even playing the game yet, I don't think this box art does it justice.

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I dont like the box art that much :( But the game will be bloody awesome. Want to see CE content now!

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Sweet, this is a standard edition! I'm gonna wait for it.

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OH HEEEEEEEEEELL YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yes, easily one of the best RPGs out there ever.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> We all like different aspects in games, so I don't know if you'll like it, but what I can tell you, is that its the most balanced RPG franchise of the past decade, perhaps even more.

pretty much every aspect of these games is at least ok or good, and it has many others that are great naturally, no other RPG has that today, they are always focused in the story, or in the combat, or in the size of the world, etc, but make many sacrifices.

Its a franchise of narrative driven RPGs with a very strong and unique lore

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<< LINK REMOVED >> play it, play it all & and play it now!!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> u srs?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Currently going for 80 hours in TW1 and 140 hours in TW2...I recommend playing dark mode your first time, for sure. Its ez.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I got a bruise on my forehead I face palmed so hard...

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Those are not preorder bonuses - everyone who buys this edition (doesn't matter when) gets all of that bonus material : << LINK REMOVED >>

This situation was always with Witcher games and CD Projekt RED

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This Industry needs to wear adult diapers for all the "leaking" its doing.


But jokes aside, Im looking forward to Witcher 3!

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@blackothh Oh the images oh the images in my head XD Prominent industry figures in diapers...oh my god xD

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Nice box art, but I'll get my copy from GoG since I have both of the other games there. I got the first one from retail in 2007 and the second from a recent Steam sale. GoG is nice enough to give you a free backup copy if you can prove that you own a copy already.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> yup. Best to support developer directly and get it from GoG.

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Only issue is I can't remember what happened at the end of 2 and just started the first, so much lore to catch up on lol.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> nothing major happened in witcher 2 except Geralt just cudn't get to have sex with as much women as in witcher 1, thats it, and yeah apart from this he killed some monsters and the kingslayer in witcher 2 :D

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@shivam024 @steaminpotatoes spoilers :D

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