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When the original Witcher launched back in 2007, the game received plenty of positive reviews, but the utilisation of BioWare's Aurora technology disappointed many. Developer CD Projekt RED's response? A state-of-the-art engine that powered one of the most technically accomplished, outright beautiful releases ever seen on PC: The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, released in May last year.

Many believed that a worthwhile console conversion of this game would be impossible, but it's somehow fitting that the RED Engine's debut on Xbox 360 is in many ways even more astonishing than it was on PC. While there are some understandable downgrades, the overall look is extremely close - the insane level of detail in both surroundings and characters, the immense sense of scale in the richly defined, beautifully animated environments, the vast array of post-processing effects and atmospheric rendering techniques - in every way that matters, the 360 game delivers.

Perhaps most impressive of all is how The Witcher 2 handles light and shadow: everything is dynamically rendered in real-time and a multitude of light sources can be in play at any given point, with the game also supporting a full day/night time cycle in the appropriate environments. Nothing appears to be pre-rendered or "baked" into the levels as is often the case in console titles; there are no shortcuts here - a philosophy that extends to all areas of the game's technological make-up.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-witcher-2-tech-analysis

CD Projekt did an awesome job?

 



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Best looking game on Consoles and one of the best looking games ever made.

But this game is not only good looking its also an TRIPLE A Game.



Sounds like they did a proper job of porting the game over to consoles, not bad!

Just more prove of good a developer they are.



Can't wait, preordered the enhanced edition a few months back, also as a bonus Amazon in UK are offering signatures of the dev team on the inside of every edition they sell!



Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.

Bristow9091 said:
It looks nice, but I wouldn't say the best looking game on consoles, I can think of a few that I personally think look better, but I wont say them incase of flaming or whatever, lol.

I was really hoping they'd bring W2 over to PS3 too, since W3 is being made for it, it's sort of like the Mass Effect situation, but worse because we only get one game out of the trilogy instead of two... oh well though, my PC is more than ample enough to run even W2 on the highest settings, lol.

Congratulations though for porting it over so well, it really is comparable in some of those screenshots, however, in others it's a little meh, but you can't always capture amazing visuals in a still image, some games just look so much better in motion :)


There has been no confirmation (or even really indication) of the Witcher 3 comming to PS3, it's more likely to come to the PS4 considering it probably won't be out until 2014...

 

OT: They did a really amazing job, as expected. Other than the ground (which has lost a lot of detail in those screens) and the lack of bloom (which I never really like anyway) it has translated very well.

Can't wait to play though again with the enhanced content.



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Good to know they managed to get a nice version working on the 360. Colour me impressed although I've been saving my second PC playthrough for when they release the enhanced content. Especially with my new 7870, woo hoo!



Over at GameReactor, the chief editor who'm was madly impressed by the game said that The Witcher 2 is the "best looking game on the 360" beating Crysis 2 and Gears of War 3.
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=sv&ie=UTF8&rurl=translate.google.se&sl=sv&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.gamereactor.se/blog/petter/312661/%3Fsid%3D5cb8b8c4a245f9ec425c9d7f89077a7e&usg=ALkJrhgIYDHojsVBOMlFfEaDi1kTx8MicA#comments

When asked if it tops the PS3's titles UC3, UC2, God of War 3 and Killzone 3: he said "No".
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&ie=UTF8&sl=sv&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.gamereactor.se/brev/205301/The%2BWitcher%2B2%2Bsnyggare%2B%25E4n%2BPS3%253F/

Still a fucking great accomplishement and mad props to the devs! It was awarded with a 9/10 on the site and the Meta is shaping up at 91 thus far.

Waiting for the enhanced PC version myself :3



Aldro said:

Over at GameReactor, the chief editor who'm was madly impressed by the game said that The Witcher 2 is the "best looking game on the 360" beating Crysis 2 and Gears of War 3.
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=sv&ie=UTF8&rurl=translate.google.se&sl=sv&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.gamereactor.se/blog/petter/312661/%3Fsid%3D5cb8b8c4a245f9ec425c9d7f89077a7e&usg=ALkJrhgIYDHojsVBOMlFfEaDi1kTx8MicA#comments

When asked if it tops the PS3's titles UC3, UC2, God of War 3 and Killzone 3: he said "No".
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&ie=UTF8&sl=sv&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.gamereactor.se/brev/205301/The%2BWitcher%2B2%2Bsnyggare%2B%25E4n%2BPS3%253F/

Still a fucking great accomplishement and mad props to the devs! It was awarded with a 9/10 on the site and the Meta is shaping up at 91 thus far.

Waiting for the enhanced PC version myself :3

hmmm Crysis 2 looks way better than Killzone 3, Uc2 or God of War 3 so these guys are biased its quite obviouss.

God of War 3 looks amazing in some parts and really mediocre in others, the titans parts are indeed some of the best graphics i´ve ever seen.

Witcher 2, Uncharted 3 and Gears of War 3 along with RdR are the best looking game in my opinion.



Although it looks amazing also on X360 I think saying that the overall look is extremly close to PC version is exaggeration.

There is still very notable difference.



its quite insane how they keep saying God of War 3 and Uc2 and Killzone 3 this when Gears of War 3, Crysis 2, RdR are much better looking than these games, Killzone 3 is a mess of colours and corridor boring shooter than doesnt look half ad good as Crysis 2 on 360 or RdR wich have huge areas to explore and way better lighting effects. God of War 3 is amazing in some and not so good in other parts, a game needs to be awesome graphics from the beggining to the end not just in BOSS Fights, if you tell me Uc3 absolutely that game looks AMAZING and yes its the best or one of the best looking games ever but the others just dont compete with Gears 3, Witcher 2 or RdR, Leave Alone Witcher 2 on Pc, Crysis 2 DX11 or BF3.

Not even saying Forza MotorSport 4 wich looks REAL, from tracks to cars not just the freaking cars you know !? 

I still have faith in Halo 4 to blow my mind but these days into this gen we dont get much surprised anymore, sure their is still Max Payne 3, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, GTA V, Halo 4. Last of Us, God of War 4, Last Guardian, RySe and so on but dont expect to be "OMFG"