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Its been over a year since we first saw Gerealt's newest quest debut. The reason why you see it so often in this is that we're continually blow away by each new demo of the vast fantasy adventure. Even if it's tricky shwoing off a grand open world role playing game within the confiness of the multiple restricted demos we've glimpsed of the world thus far, CD project does a good job on compressing generous slices of storyline into relatively tight forty minute sitting showing various aspects of Geralt's persona, a range of non-playable characters, a glimpse into the greater picture, and a close look at some the the different environments we'll get to enjoy in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The kind of demos where you're torn between taking notes and keeping your eye on the screen, trying not to miss a beat of dialouge or soaking in the scenery. It feels like only a few action-packed minutes have passed, while a quick glace at your watch tells a different story.

The Lates sightings of Wild Hunt comes with the demo that makes up the company's E3 presentation, a snapshot of which we see during a brief snatch of gameplay as a part of Microsoft's Media Briefing

"The Griffing thing [demo at Microsoft's press conference] was a hard thing to pull off." continues Mamais,"but it made sense to do a monster hunting quest for that."

Geralt's hunting the creature to clain a bounty placed on its head by someone our monster hunter meets while roaming the world. It's not just the cash that Geralt's interested in, but the info the fellow's willing to impart as well. Specifically about a girl with ashen hair, who we're told has some tie to Geralt's past. During the main storyline we trach her movements, witnessing the outcome of some of her struggles as we roam through areas that she's passed though at an earlier point.

"[We're] pretty early on," Mamais outlines during the demo to give some context. "It's a grild that appeared in early saga of the books. But in terms of the game [placements] it's in the first queater of the storyline."

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