It’s rare when I want a game quite as badly as I want Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I consider both the original game and its sequel, 2: Assassins of Kings, to be “amazing”. Part of what helps that is that Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher books translate well to a video game. But another part is tied to CD Projekt RED’s commitment to delivering a top-rate game, one that makes it obvious that a lot of love and effort went into it.
Wild Hunt is no different. In fact, the game had to suffer not one, but two delays in order for CDP to feel confident enough that its game will deliver nothing less than a great first impression.
Did I do well enough to sell the game? That won’t matter if you’re planning to pick up a GeForce GTX 960, 970, or 980, or a notebook equipped with either a GTX 970M or 980M, as you’ll be able to get the game for free. That’s thanks to an aptly named ‘Undeniably Epic’ bundle NVIDIA just kicked-off.
Such a bundle means just one thing: NVIDIA’s confident that Wild Hunt will look best on GeForce GPUs. Considering the fact that CDP has made use of NVIDIA’s HairWorks and PhysX (destruction and clothing), that claim might have some merit. In an official blog post, NVIDIA’s Leslie Pirritano writes:
You’re going to want to experience this game at its best. NVIDIA and CD Projekt Red have worked together to bring new levels of realism to it with technologies like NVIDIA HairWorks and NVIDIA PhysX.
The Northern Kingdoms come to life as HairWorks gives the hair and fur of more than 50 monsters and characters a natural flow. Our PhysX technology does the same for clothing characters wear. Combine those with destructible objects and every fight’s a spectacular experience.
It sounds like that GeForce GTX TITAN X we received last week could be getting a good workout at 4K.
You can hit-up NVIDIA’s landing page for the promotion here. EVGA also kicked-off an official page for the promotion, which can be seen here.
Wild Hunt is set to release on May 19, which means that if you haven’t played the original two titles, you have a fair amount of time to get up to speed.
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