The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CD PROJEKT RED
Release date: 2015-05-18 | Platforms: PLAYSTATION4, PC, XBOX_ONE, NINTENDO_SWITCH.

The third game in a series, it holds nothing back from the player. Open world adventures of the renowned monster slayer Geralt of Rivia are now even on a larger scale. Following the source material more accurately, this time Geralt is trying to find the child of the prophecy, Ciri while making a quick coin from various contracts on the side. Great attention to the world building above all creates an immersive story, where your decisions will shape the world around you.

CD Project Red are infamous for the amount of work they put into their games, and it shows, because aside from classic third-person action RPG base game they provided 2 massive DLCs with unique questlines and 16 smaller DLCs, containing extra quests and items.

Players praise the game for its atmosphere and a wide open world that finds the balance between fantasy elements and realistic and believable mechanics, and the game deserved numerous awards for every aspect of the game, from music to direction.

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Piotr Krzywonosiuk

Piotr Krzywonosiuk

producer

Piotr Krzywonosiuk is a games producer. Krzywonosiuk has been working with CD PROJEKT RED and Epic Games. Krzywonosiuk's first published game was Gears of War: Judgment released in 2013. Then, Piotr Krzywonosiuk went on to work on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as the producer.

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Jędrzej Mróz

Jędrzej Mróz

producer

Jędrzej Mróz is a games producer. Mróz has been working with CD PROJEKT RED. Mróz's first game was The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings published by CD PROJEKT RED for PC, Xbox One and Xbox 360 in 2011. Then, Jędrzej Mróz went on to work on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition as the producer. The latest work of Jędrzej Mróz was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, published in 2015.

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Grzegorz Mocarski

Grzegorz Mocarski

programmer

Grzegorz Mocarski is a games designer and programmer. Mocarski has been working with CD PROJEKT RED and Epic Games. Mocarski's first game was Gears of War: Judgment published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox 360 in 2013. After that, Grzegorz Mocarski took part as the designer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Mocarski also worked on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone developed by CD PROJEKT RED for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Most lately, Grzegorz Mocarski worked on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine.

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Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz

Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz

writer

Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz is a games writer and director. Tomaszkiewicz has been working with CD PROJEKT RED and CD PROJEKT. Tomaszkiewicz started in 2015 as the writer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Then, Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz went on to work on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone as the writer. Tomaszkiewicz also worked on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine developed by CD PROJEKT RED for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Most lately, Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz worked on Thronebreaker.

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Mateusz Kanik

Mateusz Kanik

designer

Mateusz Kanik is a games director and designer. Kanik has been working with CD PROJEKT RED and CD PROJEKT. Kanik's first game was The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings published by CD PROJEKT RED for PC, Xbox One and Xbox 360 in 2011. After that, Mateusz Kanik took part as the designer of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition. Afterwards, Mateusz Kanik worked on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developed by CD PROJEKT RED in 2015. Most recently, Mateusz Kanik was involved in the development of Cyberpunk 2077.

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Konrad Tomaszkiewicz

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz

writer

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is a games writer, director and producer. Tomaszkiewicz has been working with CD PROJEKT RED and CD PROJEKT. Tomaszkiewicz's first published game was The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings released in 2011. Then, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz went on to work on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition as the writer. Tomaszkiewicz also worked on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developed by CD PROJEKT RED for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The latest work of Konrad Tomaszkiewicz was Cyberpunk 2077, published in 2020.

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Sebastian Stępień

Sebastian Stępień

writer

Sebastian Stępień is a Polish video game writer, narrative and setting director at CD Project Red.

Career

Very little is known about the early life of Stępień. The first project he is credited in a 2007 action role-playing game Witcher. This is title was the first in the Witcher series and the debut of CD Project Red. Since that, Stępień has been working on every main entry in The Witcher series. In The Witcher 2: Assassins of the Kings, he was the main writer and dialogue designer. All of the games in the trilogy met critical acclaim for their story, dialogues, and characters. Currently, the writer is working on the first CD Project Red’s game, not in the Witcher universe – Cyberpunk 2077. Aside from writing, Stępień was a creative director of Witcher 3: The Wild which was the best-received game in the series and was the biggest financial success for the studio.

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Mikolai Stroinski

Mikolai Stroinski

composer

Mikolai Stroinski is a games composer. Stroinski has been working with CD PROJEKT RED, CD PROJEKT and The Astronauts. Stroinski's first published game was The Vanishing of Ethan Carter released in 2014. After that, Mikolai Stroinski took part as the composer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Stroinski also worked on Gwent: The Witcher Card Game developed by CD PROJEKT RED for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and iOS. Most recently, Mikolai Stroinski was involved in the development of Thronebreaker.

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Marcin Blacha

Marcin Blacha

writer

Marcin Blacha is a Polish game developer and story director at CD Project Red.

Career

Very little is known about Blacha’s life and the beginning of his career. He joined CD Project Red as a senior designer. The first project he took part in was the studio’s debut game The Witcher. It was the first game in The Witcher series of role-playing games based on the Andrzej Sapkowski’s book franchise. Since that he has been working on every main installment in the series including two expansion packs for The Witcher 3 – Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine in which he was a Story Director. Aside from writing, Blacha also was a gameplay designer in the sequel to The Witcher – The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Outside CD Project Red, he worked as a narrative designer on some minor projects and developed two pen & paper RPGs as well as some expansions for them.

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Marcin Przybyłowicz

Marcin Przybyłowicz

composer

Marcin Przybyłowicz is a games composer. Przybyłowicz has been working with CD PROJEKT RED, CD PROJEKT, The Astronauts and CreativeForge Games. Przybyłowicz's first published game was The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings released in 2011. Then, Marcin Przybyłowicz went on to work on Afterfall: InSanity as the composer. Afterwards, Marcin Przybyłowicz worked on The Vanishing of Ethan Carter developed by The Astronauts in 2014. Most lately, Marcin Przybyłowicz worked on Cyberpunk 2077.