The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Interview
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What can you tell us about the storyline this time around?
Tomek Gop: For a start, the order in Temeria Kingdom has been pretty much restored. The Order of The Flaming Rose is no more. There's pretty much one last place where King needs to go La Valette Baron and her castle where she has claimed (independence from the king).
Anyways, Foltest asks Geralt to accompany him, and since you don't say (no) to a king, this is exactly where you start your adventure in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Geralt is not too happy about not being able to follow the thread of the assassin, but he'll definitely get back to it in the game. This is the main plot.
What more can I say? The scale is bigger, people are more powerful, emotion, politics all stronger. No spoilers, right?
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Will there be both an unedited and edited version released like with The Witcher 1?
Tomek Gop: That's probably more of a question for the ESRB than CD Projekt. The US release of The Witcher was the only edited version worldwide. Or was Chinese one edited as well? I can't recall.
We're not trying to achieve the (we showed full frontal nudity in US) trophy, we're just reaching for a mature audience. The Witcher 2 will probably end up with the same ratings as The Witcher, and hopefully this time we will not cut down any content.
I remember that before release of The Witcher we got an opinion from ESRB saying that (the game contains really little violence compared to the amount of sex), while at the same time PEGI was like (hey, the mature content in your game is so teen, you could easily spice it up a bit if you'd like).
Go figure.
