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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition takes the gameplay that made the original the 2007 PC RPG of the Year to new heights with a wide range of technical updates and gameplay improvements. Some of the most noticeable changes include greatly reduced loading times, re-done English script (5000 lines modified) and completely new German voiceovers, improved game stability, greater NPC variety, an easier-to-use inventory with a separate alchemy sack and more than 200 new gesture animations that make dialogue scenes much more natural and dynamic.
Adding to the great value is the premium packaging, offering features usually only found in an expensive Collector’s Edition for the price of a regular game, including:
• Multilanguage The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, a reworking of the best PC RPG game of 2007;
• DVD bonus disc including the D’jinni Adventure Editor and two brand new adventures created by CD Projekt RED:
- the D’jinni Adventure Editor: allows players to create or modify their own adventures in the world of The Witcher;
- "The Price of Neutrality": the adventure tells the story of Geralt coming back to Kaer Morhen and finding a mysterious camp near the stronghold (featuring 3 new quests);
- “Side Effects”: the first ever release of this new adventure which focuses on Geralt's close friend, Dandelion, and his troubles in Vizima City (featuring 5 new quests);
• Remastered “Making Of” DVD Video with never-before-seen bonus material (total 180 minutes);
• Soundtrack CD - music from the game The Witcher; (29 tracks, total 73 minutes)
• CD of original music inspired by The Witcher (15 tracks, total 59 minutes);
• Instruction manual (80 pages) and official game guide (112 pages);
• Short story by Andrzej Sapkowski featuring new monster artwork (around 50 pages);
• A map for exploration throughout The Witcher ’s world (A3 doublesided).
Confirmation has come fast in regard to rumors surfacing earlier today that Microsoft would be closing its internal developer Ensemble Studios upon the completion of sci-fi real-time strategy game Halo Wars. In a statement issued today, Microsoft confirmed that Ensemble will be shut down once the Xbox 360-exclusive RTS set in the best-selling Halo franchise ships out early next year.
"The team at Ensemble has made invaluable contributions to the games industry with their Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games and with the highly anticipated release of Halo Wars," the publisher said in a statement. "This decision does not reflect at all on Ensemble’s talent or the quality of Halo Wars--in fact, many people who have had a chance to test drive Halo Wars agree that it is on track to being a fantastic game."
Though Microsoft will close the studio, Ensemble has plans to soldier on. As part of today's statement, Microsoft said that Ensemble's "leadership team" will form a new development house and has already entered into an agreement with the publisher to continue supporting Halo Wars post-launch, "as well as work on other projects with Microsoft Game Studios."
Commenting on the reason for the closure, Microsoft said, "This was a fiscally rooted decision that keeps MGS on its growth path. While the decision to dissolve Ensemble was not an easy one, Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."
As noted earlier today, the Age of Empires brand has sold more than 20 million units since the first installment debuted on the PC in 1997. According to the NPD Group, Age of Empires III for the PC has sold 1.15 million units in the US alone through July 2008, with The Warchiefs expansion tallying nearly 305,000 more. (The second expansion, Asian Dynasties, was developed by Rise of Nations creators Big Huge Games.)
Ensemble has been a Microsoft-owned studio since 2001.