CD Projekt RED has announced details of a card game that will be playable from within The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as well as releasing new details about the Collector’s Edition of The Witcher 3.
Called Gwent, the card game will be playable within the game on every platform. Invented by dwarves, and perfected over centuries of tavern play, Gwent is beloved by both road-hardened travellers and the landed gentry who want to spice up their dinner parties.
The card game centres around the clash of two armies on the battlefield, with the player being the leader and the cards their forces.
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“Gwent is an amazing game and we're really happy to be able to bring it to the physical realm with Microsoft's help. Now we’ve got Gwent in every copy of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as an in-game experience for free on every platform, and a physical version in the Xbox One CE, how awesome is that?” said Marcin Iwiñski, CD PROJEKT RED Co-founder and Joint CEO.
Here are some of Gwent’s main features, courtesy of CD Projekt RED:
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- Over 150 unique playing cards
- 4 distinct factions: the mighty and cunning Nilfgaardian Empire, the brave Northern Realms and their siege weapons, the agile and devious Scoia’tael, and the brutal monsters of No Man’s Land.
- Powerful spells allow players to control the weather and affect units on the battlefield.
- An array of combat styles caters to individual playstyles: close range with heavy knights, long range with skilled archers or artillery with powerful siege weapons.
- Powerful hero cards, unique to each faction.
And if that has left you wishing you could actually play Gwent in physical form, well your wish is CD Projekt RED’s command, with the Xbox One Collector’s Edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt actually containing the card game of Gwent, as well as a unique cloth map of the in-game world. Here are the key features of that special edition, again courtesy of CD Projekt RED:
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-The standard edition of the game, containing: the official soundtrack, a beautiful and detailed map of the in-game world, unique stickers, and the developer-created "Witcher Universe - The Compendium"
-A giant, 33x24x26 cm, 100% hand painted, Polystone figure of Geralt of Rivia battling a Griffin
-An exclusive, collector grade Witcher medallion
-A one of a kind SteelBook ™
-A two-hundred page artbook, containing breathtaking art from the game
-A cloth map of the game world
-Two Gwent card decks
-Huge outer and inner Collector’s Boxes you can store your Witcher merchandise in!
Source: CD Projekt RED