Doug Cockle, the voice actor of Geralt in the original Witcher trilogy, seems to confirm that the White Wolf will play a role in The Witcher 4.
2VIEW GALLERY – 2 PICTURES
Surprising information has just surfaced about CD Projekt’s next Witcher game. Apparently, Geralt of Rivia, also known as the White Wolf or the Butcher of Blaviken, will be part of the game, although the hero’s journey is already pretty well concluded in The Witcher 3’s Blood and Wine expansion.
“The Witcher 4 has been announced… I can’t say anything about it yet. We know Geralt will be part of the game, we just don’t know how much. The game won’t focus on Geralt, so it’s not about him this time. We don’t know who it is, I’m excited to find out, I want to know,” Cockle said in a current gamified YouTube video where he tries to recreate iconic lines from the game.
“I haven’t seen a script yet… I mean, I couldn’t tell you if I had one. That’s the thing. I could lie shamelessly. But I don’t… or do I?”
If Geralt appears in the game, it stands to reason that Cockle probably recorded a few voice lines for the famous witcher.
The “we” in the question is interesting because CD Projekt has not officially announced whether or not Geralt will actually be in the game. In fact, CDPR has been extremely tight-lipped about details about the new Witcher games, only confirming that the new game, codenamed Polaris, will be the first part of a new Witcher trilogy.
So far, CD Projekt has only said that Polaris is the start of a “new saga,” that it’s being built using the Unreal Engine, and that it will include some sort of multiplayer element. Key art for the new game also confirms that the School of Lynx will play a role.
Other details were not explained in detail either. Michal Nowakowski, co-CEO of CD Projekt, explained that Polaris will not be “The Witcher 3 with a new look”:
“I guess what I’m saying is that you shouldn’t expect something like ‘The Witcher 3 remade’. Of course we’re building on what came before and what we’ve learned, but we’re going to add new gameplay elements and new mechanics that you haven’t seen in our previous games. Doing things like this is always a risk and it’s not just a repeat of what’s been done before.”
