10 Upcoming Video Game Remakes That Could Be Better Than The Original
2. The Witcher
It's not unfair to say that the original Witcher is showing its age almost 20 years after the fact, what with its tricky UI, clunky combat, iffy character models, and maddening difficulty spikes.
Developer CD Projekt Red has spoken extensively over the years about how difficult it was to develop the first Witcher with the Aurora Engine, and so swapped to their proprietary REDengine for the second and third games.
In 2022 a remake of the original Witcher was announced, with Fool's Theory developing it under supervision from CD Projekt Red.
Where to even begin with this one? Unlike the original game it will be a fully open-word like The Witcher 3, and be brought to life with Unreal Engine 5, which CD Projekt Red will also be using to develop the next trilogy of mainline Witcher titles.
The studio has also more broadly promised fans that "bad, outdated, or unnecessarily convoluted" aspects of the original game will be removed.
Considering The Witcher is a tough game to play for anyone who got their start on the second and especially third games, this remake will surely make it far more accessible to an entire generation of players.