"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" is one of the biggest and most popular games today. It won many awards from critics, websites and gaming award shows all over the world, including GameSpot's Game of the Year. It is also up for a Writer's Guild of America award.

Avid gamers now have high expectations for the "Blood and Wine" DLC that is coming to "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" as story writer Jakub Szamalek boasted in an interview with Eurogamer Italy that it will be "better than the main game."

He told the publication that what sets the new DLC apart from the main game — or even make it a better version — is that it has a new antagonist that the lead character has to fight. Moreover, the story is rather more complex, which Szamalek believed that players will appreciate more.

Although the new DLC may be considered as a standalone game, game developer CD Projekt Red confirmed that it will not be superior to the original. The Polish studio marketing lead Michal Platkow-Gilewski clarified in his recent talk with GameSpot that "Blood and Wine" is more refined than "Wild Hunt" itself in a lot of aspects, "but that doesn't mean it's better per se."

"I wouldn't point fingers at what's better separately, as each addition to 'Wild Hunt' enriches the overall experience you get from... [the] game in general. The base game with the expansions is simply better than without them," he added.

Meanwhile, in the same interview with Eurogamer Italy (translated to English through Google Translate), Szamalek confirmed that "Blood and Wine" will be the last adventure of Geralt of Rivia as a main character. Additionally, the senior writer for the game said that it will be an independent story that is not at all related to the main "The Witcher 3" campaign.

The release date of the "Blood and Wine" DLC has yet to be formally announced, but it may come some time in the first half of this year.