In October, CD Projekt Red announced it was remaking the first The Witcher game with the help of an external studio called Fool’s Theory.
We know the game is codenamed Canis Majoris and will be built in Unreal Engine 5, but that’s all we know. We don’t know anything about how, or whether, the game’s content will change. We don’t know how far CDPR is willing to go.
I was speaking to Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle about this during the latest episode of One-to-One, my podcast series, which is available to everyone now (search for “Eurogamer Podcasts” wherever you listen to them). I wanted to know what he thought about the remake and whether he’s doing any work for it.
Cockle, remember, is the voice of Geralt in every main Witcher game. It’s him you hear in The Witcher 1. So if CDPR wants to re-record or expand that performance, it’s Cockle they will need to call.
“I’d be there in an instant,” Cockle tells me, if CDPR did phone, but it hasn’t rung yet.
“I know as much as you do about this at the moment,” he says. “All I know is that CD Projekt Red has announced that they’re going to remake Witcher 1 in Unreal [Engine] 5, and that’s what I know. So I don’t know if they’re going to bring me back in to do re-recording of the dialogue, I don’t know if they’re going to use dialogue from Witcher 1 as it exists. I don’t know.”