There’s a heaviness apparent in the way in which you interact with the world, yet it doesn’t slow you down.

What’s apparent from the earliest moments of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is that it brings a new measure. While this brings a level of authenticity to already wide worlds, some also bearing depth and height, the environments seem more like dioramas or sets, proverbial painted cardboard that serve only as a backdrop.

A barn cannot only be modelled and rendered before it’s put before the player, but must also be designed old aged, weathered and used. Recent trysts into digital landscapes have evolved past once pristine wonderlands, embracing entropy as something that must exist within their lands to feel authentic. We can venture into them with clear intent, or for the sake of finding something new. First Impressions – The Witcher 3: Wild HuntĪ thread runs through open worlds, holding together the collective sequences and explorable regions, existing across many games.