Posted on: May 18, 2011
RamzesXIII
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 329 Rezensionen: 8
Overrated
The Witcher came with a lot buzz around, and still looks like is held in high regard among fans of the new cRPGs. Sadly, probably only them will love the game, while others will be annoyed by many things. First of all, game crashes randomly. It's an Enhanced Edition, the game's version number is 1.4, and it still can freak out to Windows. This is plain bull**it. While the game looks like a milion bucks in gold, and has great, fitting soundtrack (and not bad "inspired by" album), the gameplay is built mostly around fetch quests. Bring 10 skulls of monsters of certain type. Bring me 5 flowers. I need 15 wolfskins etc. It's just stupid, and pretty much ruins the interesting mechanic of dialogue choices, which can affect the non-linear story, the main feat of the game. Combat mechanics is a whole different story. At first, I was disoriented - why my hero just stands like a doofus and doesn't fight? The trick is, the combat is very simplified - you just can point the cursor at the enemy, and just click whenever the cursor changes it's shape. Yes, really, that's all about it. Of course, there are different kind of swords and styles, but it doesn't add much of a strategy - if the enemy isn't hurt by your constany swinging, just press key and try again. Which brings us to the camera setting - forget about the good 'ol isometric perspective, if you don't want to go insane, choose the OTS/TPP camera and keyboard+mouse controls. Oh, and the voice actors. While the Polish ones are fairly good, I choosed from curiosity the English, and later German. They sound horrible and make all the characters dumb, so you may want to disable the voice-acting at all, stick to the subtitles and just admire the music. Overall, The Witcher is not a bad game - it does have an interesting plot, looks and sounds good, comes with an adventure editor and is fairly playable and entertaining - it's not just "one of the best cRPGs ever" - this is pure PR crap. An okay game, for okay price, nothing more, nothing less.
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