CD Projekt promises no visual downgrade for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CD Projekt Red released a handful of new Witcher 3 screens last week, which you can see for yourself in this post.

screens last week, which you can see for yourself in this post. Not everyone was entirely thrilled with them, however. Some fans said in a NeoGAF threadthat they really don't look as good as we've come to expect, a concern that only deepened when an "insider" claimed that the studio's PR team is "creating an overblown vision of a game that doesn't exist."

The insider, as noted by Lazygamer, was " vetted and cleared" by a NeoGAF admin, and the image of Geralt squaring off against a bunch of wolves is far from awful but it does look a little flat. But CD Projekt Community Manager Marcin Momot tried to allay any fears by reminding everyone that the game is still in development.

"Please keep in mind that the game is still in production phase. Certain things are still being worked on," Momot told Worldsfactory. "The final version of the game will look better than what can be seen in the latest screenshots – no matter the platform. As you probably know, when publishing screenshots, some of them can be subjectively less appealing than others (depending on one’s opinion), that’s perfectly normal. The most important thing here is that the game will come out looking gorgeous when we are done working on it. There will be no downgrade."

CD Projekt wouldn't be the first studio to make promises about the visual fidelity of its game that it ultimately couldn't keep, but Momot's statement is unequivocal. And this most recent batch of screens notwithstanding, everything to come out of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has looked pretty spectacular so far.

So what do we think: Is this cause for concern, or much ado about nothing?