The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

I didn't play 'Assassins of Kings' for the first time until recently, well after I'd played through all of 'Wild Hunt' and its two expansions many times over. After my first playthrough of 'Kings' I feel confident there will be a second. First off, the game's graphics and art direction hold up in 2018, and provided you have at least a mid-tier gaming rig such as mine, you can max out this game's visuals and enjoy a real treat. The story of 'Kings,' however, is less resiliant. Truly, it is less a story and more a collection of events loosly connected by Geralt's desire to find the man who killed King Foltest. Depending on a major player choice, the middle section of the game is set in one of two locations completely independent from one another. This is super neat, but ultimately feels too scripted. As a witcher, Geralt spends much his adventure swinging swords, and I almost wish he didn't. Combat in 'Kings' is often difficult for the wrong reasons. Geralt swings his sword in whichever direction the camera is facing, and there's no means of properly locking on to enemies, only a means of forcing Geralt to swing in a specific direction. This, coupled with wonky and sometimes broken hit detection, can create some infuriating enemy encounters, Additionally, combat can be enhanced with Signs, bombs, traps, throwing knives, blade oils, and potions, but most of the time you're best off just to keep swinging. All of the aforementioned enhancements just take too long to use, mostly because of difficult to navigate pause menus that were expressly designed with consoles in mind. And at times, there are out-of-place stealth sections and outdated button promps/QTEs. 'Assassins of Kings' is amalgam of many ideas and components that don't always harmonize, but I found it to be loads more enjoyable than many RPGs released in recent years (except this game's successor). If you've only played 'Wild Hunt,' I recommend going on a fresh adventure with Geralt and his pals.

I really liked the game, plot is amazing and gameplay is really good!

I bought and beat this game after my 3rd playthrough of Witcher 3 it to me isn't as good as witcher 3 but still worth every penny I spent on it!

Good continuation, better episode than previous story,mechanic,graphics and dialogues wonderful Polish masterpiece

I love all games in witcher series for different reasons...because they are all completely different. And witcher 2 is the most different one. This is game of thrones on steroids! The amount of political intrigue and even the smallest decisions impacting those politics in a major way completely blows my mind. There is so many different endings and depending on one choice you may end up with completely different chapter 2 (and completely different experience). It does how some problems but nothing is perfect + best story of the entire trilogy (imo), writing, characters (best villain of the series - or antihero lol) + multiple endings + high replayability + visuals. This was the best looking game of the year when it came out (bar none) + music + completely different (and better) combat than the first game - long loading times - locations can be confusing to navigate and geralt moves really slow.. - weird difficulty...early game can be punishing for a new player...late game is too easy Overall 8/10 objectively...great game. Also shortest of the series which only adds to high replayability