The Witcher 2: The Making of the “52 and a Half” Video, Part One

In the first installment to a multi-part blog entry, the team at CD Projekt RED has set out to explain the goals and aspirations they had during the creation of the “52 and a Half” video that they used to promote the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition.  A snip:

Good ideas are like the Spanish inquisition nobody expects them. The spark to make what later became (52 and a half), came to us quite late in the production process, so we had little time to produce a film which contained enough information. There were a lot of thoughts on how to reveal as many details about the witcher’s abilities as possible, while at the same time having a very tight deadline. What we finally agreed on was a clip in which the witcher was preparing for combat with off-screen commentary.

We assumed it was going to be impossible to make a recording with Geralt’s voice actor and that implied that the witcher would have to be silent. So the narrator had to be someone else. Borys Pugacz-Maruszkiewicz (Senior Writer) was our obvious choice not only is he a pro actor, but also he is our RED brother-in-arms.

The other problem our writing, level and character teams were busy with their tasks, so our cinematic squad was alone on this one (against all odds).

We kept our heads high and believed that we’d somehow do it.