The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

It's is amazing seeing how a small development crew,as CD Projekt,could not only face face to face huge developers games like Bethesdas Elder Scrolls:Skyrim,but maybe surpass them by sacrificing the huge world,the enormous amount of content and glitches(yes i'm evil) to give an immersive story with superb storytelling,an incredible combat system which is so fun it could have been a game itself and respect to the gamer this is the best RPG of this generation and maybe of all times.

I have to wholeheartedly agree with TigerLord's review: TW2 has awesome story-telling and beautiful graphics, but in mechanics it falls way short of its predecessor. I don't want to expand on the points already mentioned by TigerLord (bad inventory system, pointless alchemy system, in my opinion worse and less dynamic fighting system), but there is one thing that really irks me: invisible walls. While in TW1 I could basically roam freely (outside of the city), the "open" areas of TW2 are full of invisible walls and insurmountable small ledges. Getting to a quest objective quickly becomes a frustrating game of "let's find the way the devs wanted me to go - which is the only one they didn't block", instead of the free-roaming in TW1. In the swamps in TW1 I could decide whether to run cross-field and risk a dangerous fight - but hope to find something awesome - or to follow the safer roads. In the woods in TW2 I can't stray more than a few meters from the path without hitting an invisible wall. This really badly breaks the immersion and leads to a lot of frustration. For me, it kills a great RPG and makes it into a movie where I am allowed to press the W key and kill a few enemies from time to time. A great movie, yes - but still just a movie.

This is a great game that really feels crafted with love and attention to detail, and while I want to give this game a 4 1/2 for the combat which could use much improvement, I feel this game is closer to a 5 than a 4 and will give it such.

From a company with good values. I bought this on Steam first, but had to buy it on GOG too (although on sale) to support the DRM free approach. Very entertaining (not for kids) fantasy with great graphics.

Just about everything with this game is top notch (story, atmosphere, characters, graphics, etc.) except combat. It's not necessarily cheap just extremely difficult. I'm playing on normal difficulty and death can be almost instantaneous. Because the dodge mechanism is too sluggish to be useful, I downloaded the semi-official combat mod 2. It was supposed to make your characters movements quicker. But it really hasn't upgraded the experience like I was hoping. Enemies still try to surround you and attack all at once. The only way I manage to stay alive is to run like hell and catch each enemy separately. It's really a shame because I love everything else about this game. As I'm too old to still be interested in games like Final Fantasy, this was the adult experience I've been looking for. It doesn't try to cater to a wide demographic but instead assume that you're mature enough to appreciate it's subtleties. I'm going to keep playing it even if I have to play on easy [sigh of shame] because it's that compelling. Easily a Five star, perfect rating if not for the combat (a significant part of the game) being broken.