Poland\u2019s new ambassador is a scar-faced hit man armed with two swords and potions against monsters and dragons. His name is Geralt, hero of a Polish role-playing video game bewitching the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Witcher\u201d is the brainchild of Warsaw-based CD Project Red, one of a growing number of cutting-edge Polish IT firms out to dominate global gaming.<\/p>\n
It sold 4 million copies of the game worldwide at 60 euros ($67) a piece in the couple of weeks after its May release. The earlier two installments in the Witcher series have sold some 8 million copies since hitting the market in 2007 and 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the best games ever made,\u201d said website Gamespot of the game that is the top seller in most of the 109 countries where it was released.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey created the largest open world in the history of video games and filled it with realistic dialogue and characters that are full of life,\u201d said leading Polish game developer Pawel Miechowski<\/a> of the game\u2019s creators. \u201cPlus the graphics are staggering,\u201d the 32-year-old told AFP.<\/p>\n The series was even mentioned by U.S.<\/a> President Barack Obama<\/a>during a visit to Warsaw last year, after he received the second installment as a symbolic gift to smash dated stereotypes of Poland<\/a>as a dreary, gray, ex-Communist country of vodka and horse-drawn carts.<\/p>\n \u201cI confess, I\u2019m not very good at video games, but I\u2019ve been told that it is a great example of Poland\u2019s place in the new global economy,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n