The Witcher's product manager - Maciej Sachmacinski - gave an exclusive interview to Polish gaming blog GRRR.pl. He delivered some completely new information concerning Director's Cut edition of Witcher. He also officially confirmed the console version of the title coming along nicely. No date has been stated though.
Here is the sum-up:
- the original release date (16-05-2008) of the Director's Cut edition has been changed to August/September in order to release the game simultaneously in all regions
- the new edition will contain all previous patches and some new ones pre-installed into the game
- there will be 50 new NPCs models added to the game
- loading times between levels will be reduced by 80%
- an additional DVD disc, containing two new story threads that will expand the gameplay by over a dozen hours of gameplay, will be included
- modders will be very pleased because of the implementation of D'jinii tool, which will provide the ability to create their own Witcher stories (The Witcher was entirely made using this tool)
- the edition will contain "the making of" DVD with both, Atari and CD Projekt RED's own, video documentaries
- there will be two soundtrack discs (one containing game OST and the other one, titled The Witcher Inspired, will contain commercial songs by artists such as Vader, Rootwater, Habakuk etc.)
- edition will contain a huge map of the game's world
- Andrzej Sapkowski's short stories will be added to the package as well
- game manual is new and extended (160 pages)
- console version is already in the works at CD Projekt RED
- the Director's Edition of the Witcher isn't the Collector's one, which will be released in the near future