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It's no secret at this point that Henry Cavill, who starred as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher, is a gamer - he's told interviewers about his preference for the PC, that he "lived and breathed" the Witcher games to prep for his role in the TV show, and he loves Total War so much that Creative Assembly put him in The Warden and The Paunch DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2. Now he's finally had a bit of time to build himself the gaming PC of his dreams.

Cavill posted a video of his build to his Instagram, and it shows a good bit of the process. It's also extremely relatable - Cavill may be an expert with a bastard sword now, but it takes him a couple tries to get everything assembled correctly in his new PC.

He's clearly sprung for quality parts, though: Cavill's chosen an AMD Ryzen 9 processor (perhaps the best CPU for gaming) and an Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti GPU to build his system around. The Butcher of Blaviken likes to keep things cool, too - he's picked up a swish-looking NZXT Kraken Z73 liquid cooler for his CPU.

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As is to be expected, when games are demonstrated at shows like E3, there are often more tweaks and tinkerings to come before release dates roll around, meaning there can be differences between what you see and the final version. However, it seems some The Witcher 3 fans are keen to play the game as it originally appeared pre-launch. A popular new "E3 inspired gameplay mod" turns back the clock on one of the best RPG games - heck, best PC games - of all time, giving players a flavour of its pre-launch build in-game.

The "E3IG" mod by creator DreLL47 aims to "get as close to E3 demo as possible", according to its page at Nexus, which references the below 37 minute-long gameplay clip shown in 2014, a year before the open-world game's launch. While the game is, for the most part, similar to what you'll be used to playing in the final version, there are some differences in how Geralt moves, both in and out of combat.

To recreate the original footage's as closely as possible, the modder says, they've "reworked some vanilla animations to imitate E3 as much as I could".

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When I finally found myself clashing swords with the hulking King of the Wild Hunt, Eredin, at the conclusion of my 70-hour journey through The Witcher 3, I couldn t help but feel underwhelmed. Before I go on, I should warn you, throughout this article you'll find major spoilers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its expansions.

It s not that Eredin comes off as anything less than a complete scoundrel - after all, he cuts down no less than two members of Geralt s beloved cadre before you even get a chance to boot him off his mortal coil. No, my problem was that he came off a bit too much like a an archetypal villain.

Despite its traditional fantasy trappings, the world of The Witcher 3 is a far cry from the static black-and-white morality of the sanitised fairy tales that dominate RPGs. There are no karma meters or false dichotomies here, instead, they re replaced by human stories that are far too complicated to be to be shrunk down to a ticker in the game s interface.

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