The Witcher
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The Witcher est un jeu vidéo d'aventure/rôle développé par CD Projekt sorti en Novembre 2007. Basé sur l'univers médiéval-fantastique d'Andrzej Sapkowski, le joueur incarne Géralt de Riv, un Sorceleur (Witcher en anglais), un chasseur de monstres à l'époque médiévale. Le moteur du jeu est l'Aurora Engine de BioWare.
The Witcher raconte l'histoire de Geralt, un homme qui est devenu un "Sorceleur" — un chasseur de monstres errants dotés de pouvoirs surnaturels. L'action se situe dans un monde médieval que le jeu met en valeur par de nombreux détails visuels. La lumière naturelle varie selon le cycle de la journée en temps réel, et ces transitions (jour/nuit) enrichissent l'ambiance du jeu. Le temps peut dynamiquement changer et ainsi passer d'une bruine légère à un déluge s'accompagnant d'un orage sombre et ténébreux.
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[modifier] L'Histoire
Le jeu est centré autour du Sorceleur Geralt, qui souffre d'amnésie au début du jeu. Il apprendra au fure et à mesure qu'il était un Sorceleur de renom, et retrouve des amis et des ennemis que se rappèlent de lui, mais lui ne s'en rappelle pas. Il redifnira son rapport et choisira le chemin dans l'intrigue politique qui l'entoure.
[modifier] Story Motivations
The developers have often said that their main goal with the game's storyline was to give choices to the player where there was no clear good or evil, and where the player would have to choose the lesser of two (or more) evils[1].
Also, the story was designed so that the consequences of the player's choices are often not immediately visible, and may only become apparent a few chapters later. This was done to prevent the "save, choose, reload" type of gameplay that is often used in similar computer role-playing games[2].
[modifier] Gameplay
There are three camera styles available when playing The Witcher. The game can be played from one of two top-down perspectives, in which case the mouse is used to control everything, or it can be played from an over-the-shoulder view, which brings the player closer to the ingame combat, but limits visibility. In all the views the keyboard and mouse controls can be changed to be primarily mouse focused or a combined keyboard and mouse approach.
The combat system in The Witcher represents a departure from most RPGs. Players choose one of three fighting styles. The quick style allows for faster, less-damaging attacks with a greater chance of hitting faster enemies; the heavy style deals more damage in exchange for a slow attack speed, and a lower chance to hit faster enemies; and the group style, which features sweeping attacks best used if the player is surrounded. The player can switch between the styles at any point.
Each of these stances has its own unique combat style. Both of Geralt's main swords - the steel and silver ones - have distinctively different combat styles from the rest of weaponry, and serve very distinct purposes: where the steel blade is used to find humans and other flesh-and-blood beings, the silver one is more effective against supernatural monsters and beasts (against some of which steel may have no effect whatsoever).
Alchemy is a major part of gameplay. The player can create potions that increase health or endurance regeneration, allow Geralt to see in the dark, or provide other beneficial effects. The recipes for these potions can be learned through scrolls, or by experimentation. Once the player creates an unknown potion he can choose to drink it, but if the potion is a failure it will poison the character. Each time Geralt drinks potions they increase the toxicity level of his body. This can be reduced by drinking a special potion or by meditating at an inn or fireplace.
In addition to potions, the player can also create oils and bombs, respectively used to augment the damage done by weapons, or as weapons in combat. Neither can be created until talent points have been allocated into the corresponding skills.
[modifier] Moteur du jeu
The Witcher is powered by a new version of the BioWare Aurora Engine, modified for a single-player experience. A number of changes have been introduced to the original BioWare Aurora Engine, and some of them are described below.
[modifier] World visualization
One of the most important of which is modification to the world-visualization method. In BioWare's Aurora Engine, the world is designed exactly as it was envisioned rather than utilizing a tile-based system. Because of this, the visuals are claimed to be unique and rich in detail. All the environments are created in 3D Studio Max and then exported into the game engine.
- Light maps
- The CD Projekt's version of the engine supports lightmaps, generated in 3D Studio Max. Shadows generated this way are claimed to look more realistic and are better performance-wise.
- Texture paint
- This is a special tool that enables to paint the environment using custom textures, with purpose of saving the time and promising more natural look than ordinary mapping.
- Skybox and water effects
- New realistic skybox and water effects were added to the engine.
[modifier] Rendu
All the in game and tool set rendering is done using DirectX9, and the engine now supports many different shaders (water effect, bump mapping, environment mapping, etc). Additionally the whole rendering system has been unified and a new light manager was added.
[modifier] Autres changements
Other important changes include the following: motion-captured animation, physics effects, new mechanics and combat system. There are also many other modifications, like introduction of portals, additional graphical effects (glows, advanced dynamic shadows, blurs)
[modifier] Problèmes avec le système TAGES
Le jeu utilise le système de protection TAGES contre les copies, qui s'est révélé incompatible avec les émulateurs de lecteurs d'image disque et réagit de manière similaire avec les drivers SCSI et SATA du système, ce qui a conduit à un nombre important de cas où le système de protection empêche des utilisateurs de faire fonctionner des exemplaires du jeu achetés légalement.
Ces problèmes peuvent généralement être résolus en désinstallant le driver TAGES avec le programme d'installation officiel, puis en démarrant le jeu (qui installera automatiquement la version du driver appropriée).
[modifier] Localization variations
All the female portrait cards shown after Geralt's "conquests" were retouched to a more modest standard for the US release version. The in-game Dryad was also reskinned so her hair covered more of her body in this release.
Colorful dialogue between characters was cut in the English releases — not merely the US release — especially through shortening of dialogue. Lead Designer Michał Madej has disputed claims by fans that this was due to the sometimes crude language, but that the decision to edit down dialogue occurred because of production-related concerns in game development. Proof reader Martin Pagan noticed this shortened version during his work and writer Sande Chen confirmed that it was not due to censorship. Fans have theorized that it may have been done for voice acting cost savings, especially since much of the vulgar language has been retained. Such cost savings would normally occur during any shortening of dialogue, even in cases where no major crudity was involved.
[modifier] Information Aditionnelle
[modifier] Notes
- ↑ From the game's feature list, see for example here
- ↑ Need reference (probably one of the developer interviews)
[modifier] External links
- Official Site (Non-Flash version)
- Official forums
- Communauté Francophone
- The Witcher sur Gamebanshee Grande collection d'images
- The Witcher on IGN
- The Witcher on GameSpot
- Third Base!
- Developer interviews:
- The Witcher Interview, Part 1 at IGN
- The Witcher Interview, Part 2 at IGN
- The Witcher Interview, Part 3 at IGN
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