The Witcher 1 as a UE5 remake: CDPR surprises for its birthday
Today, The Witcher 1 is exactly 15 years old and CDPR has a happy surprise in store. The first part with Geralt gets a comprehensive remake based on Unreal Engine 5.
Anyone who listened more closely to the announcement of the five The Witcher players could already guess that CD Projekt Red might be working on a remake. Now it is also clear what is behind the “Canis Majoris” project.
Remake for the first witcher
As CDPR confirmed in a brief press release, an external development team called Fools Theory (known for Seven) is currently working on the remake of The Witcher 1. At the beginning of October, CDPR presented the game project under the code name “Canis Majoris” – but without using the word remake. Industry experts saw clear indications even then. So now it’s clear what the external studio is doing with “an experienced team of former Witcher developers”. It makes sense to put people familiar with the development on a remake project. Even if the heavily modified Aurora engine used for The Witcher 1 now has to give way to a completely new engine – namely the Unreal Engine 5.
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There is a lot in the press release not, so far the development is in an early concept phase and CDPR are acting as a kind of creative oversight. So it should still be some time before the first game scenes are shown or even before the release is made. Since The Witcher 1 but on today 26.10. 15 years old, a corresponding announcement is also obvious. The press release does not state whether the remake will also contain any multiplayer components. The upcoming games from CDPR should actually have “considerably more multiplayer shares” than before. However, these rules could be softened for the former “Canis Majoris”, after all, the original also has no multiplayer.
It should be exciting to see how good the replica of the original looks in Unreal Engine 5. There are no screenshots or comparison images yet. However, The Witcher 1, with its relatively open game world, could benefit significantly from UE5 technologies such as the Nanite geometry system and the Lumen lighting technology.
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