Here’s a canny bit of marketing, from the Polish PM no less – a copy of The Witcher 2 for none other than Barack Obama.
Released in Irish stores last week, the game is a sequel to the well-received 2007 predecessor, a medieval fantasy RPG from developers CD Projekt RED STUDIO. So why was The Witcher 2 thrust into the hands of the world’s most powerful man and why was it by the Polish PM Donald Tusk?
Actually, The Witcher is an entirely Polish intellectual property. The video game series developers are Polish-based and the two games are based on a series of books from Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
As such, the hardcore PC RPG is not quite the light-hearted gift you might expect – it’s an enormous source of pride to the Eastern Europe country and probably the most high profile video game came to ever come from Poland.
Obama received the game during a visit to Warsaw as part of his European tour last week, and also received an iPad with pre-loaded Polish films and several English-translated Polish novels. Without doubt however, we reckon Obama’s favourite gift was his collector’s edition of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
This news really makes us in the JOE office wonder if our Taoiseach missed a trick upon the US President’s short-lived visit last week – surely Enda should’ve handed over a copy of the 2007 Playstation 2 ‘classic’ Gaelic Games :Hurling?
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