With Gothic 3 set for release on October 13 in Europe, JoWooD revealed that an expansion pack is already in the works for the sequel RPG. The add-on was mentioned in JoWooD’s results for the first half-year 2006, "The strongest titles of this year will be released within the next few weeks. The pre-order of Gothic 3 has begun, and we expect a very promising launch of this product. We are already working on add-on packages of JoWooD,s SpellForce- and Gothic 3 series, which will partially be launched in 2007 already", said Albert Seidl, CEO of JoWooD Productions Software AG in the report.
Gothic 3 is expected to be released in North America soon there after, even though no date has been pinned down yet. Gothic 3 is supposed to have over 500 quests with 25 quests belonging to the main storyline. Piranha Bytes, the developer, used a custom styled Gamebryo engine, with Emotion FX 2 character animation and SpeedTree.
