The Witcher is Coming to Facebook

[Andy Chalk]

The Witcher is Coming to Facebook

Get ready for your head to explode: Facebook [http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=76572].

It's an interesting combination, isn't it? The depth, complexity and rigid challenge of The Witcher made it a favorite of core RPG fans; Facebook is popular with people who care about "The Witcher: Versus [http://shirtoid.com/15376/your-stupid-farm/], a browser-based game that will soon be coming to Facebook and the iPhone.

The Witcher: Versus features PvP dueling along with PvE combat, quests, achievements and even support for guilds, realm vs. realm warfare and town building. Players will be able to level up to unlock new skills and travel ever further out into the world of The Witcher. There's also some incentive for fans of the series who may not want to give it up for Facebook: The new version of the game will let players unlock items for use in the upcoming Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

I played around with the browser-based version of the game and it's a bit rough around the edge but appears surprisingly complex. Will it be enough to attract the proud core gamer demographic to the videogame slums of Facebook? Is this chocolate and peanut butter - or windshield and bug? I don't expect to see too many moms spending a lot of time with this one, but getting some witching (witchering? witchizziting?) done on an iPhone while you're trapped in a waiting room somewhere sounds like it could be a lot of fun.


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[Onyx Oblivion]

Facebook is popular with people who care about "stupid farms [http://shirtoid.com/15376/your-stupid-farm/]."

*buys shirt*

Well, now I can play some form of it. My PC is shit, and can't even run Oblivion on a setting that doesn't have the draw distance as 20 feet.

 

[Weaver]

THIS looks up my alley!
Charts, world maps, menus!
I'M HOME!!!!

 

[DividedUnity]

Id probably sign up to facebook to try it. Its not like id use it for anything else anyway

 

[Delusibeta]

This is the sort of promotional material that I like. Someone took notes from Bioware, then.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Wait, The Witcher: Versus game has PvE content? Back when I first heard about it (and decided I didn't really care about it), it was just a dueling game. I might actually check it out now, especially if it lets me unlock stuff in the sequel to the game proper.

 

[Jared]

Next up they willanounce Gears of War 3 will actially be a Facebook game x.x

 

[JEBWrench]

Eh. Don't get too excited. It'll probably work just like the seventy billion other Facebook RPGs out there.

However, it it all resembles Caravaneer [http://caravaneer.fizzlebot.com/] in terms of gameplay (being an actual game and such), I'm all in.

 

[JWW]

So, it has officially gone to gaming hell, right?

 

[aemroth]

Interesting. Thing is, if it really is above other facebook games, it will probably not have enough audience to be viable. And if otherwise... well, you know the drill. I'll be keeping an eye, though, even if only to assess social gaming evolution. I doubt it will captivate me more than a traditional game. But we shall see. CD Projekt has one excellent game, and an interesting digital distribution platform, let's see if they can keep a good track record.

 

[Lorechaser]

But will it have naked women on cards?

 

[Galad]

Good to see CDPR decided to go "one level up" with Versus, so to say

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

RPG on facebook? yay

Hope I wont be hooked like I was on WoW.

But hope the quality is good

 

[Jamash]

It will be interesting how a game, based on literature with one central character, Geralt of Rivia, translates into a multiplayer Facebook game.

I suppose it will be Geralt vs Geralt, competing in the many final battles to decide which Geralt is the best Geralt in a leaderboard of 100,000 Geralts...

Spoiler

...seeing as a nefarious cloning program was alluded to in the final cutscene of The Witcher.

 

[rddj623]

Interesting.

 

[Shanannara]

Id probably sign up to facebook to try it. Its not like id use it for anything else anyway

I'd agree with that.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

If I can play without having to sign up for Facebook, I'll at least check it out, not because I think it's likely to be good, but because The Witcher is awesome. If I can't, oh well. It's definitely not enough to get me to create yet another account on yet another site/service that I mostly don't care about.

 

[Plurralbles]

"Pay $20 to not have to spend the next decade twiddling your thumbs in order to get to the part that is actually fun"