The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

The Witcher 2 was my most anticipated game since october 2007, when I first finished Witcher 1 (not Enhanced, but in version 1.1, without any problems or large bugs). So when it came out, I immediately downloaded gog version (with CE on its way) and started playing May 17th. 6 days and some 45 ingame hours later, I finished the game. Now it has been two months and I still find myself checking these forums every day, thinking about the game every day, and watching its 3 utterly brilliant trailers (disdain and fear, hope, love and blood) every few days or so. I just cannot believe how good the game is. Please note that I had only 1 insignificant bug, I have 16:10 screen and small black bars mean nothing to me, and I had flawless, crash-free experience.I played on ultra details (1920*1200, uber off) with x360pad. So I am judging purely the game itself, since I did not and do not have any technical issues. Everything - from graphics, where its combination of artistic vision and technical superiority makes it best looking game I have ever played (and yes, I played other stunners like Uncharted 2, Crysis 1+2, Metro, Red Dead Redemption..), to gameplay itself, with extremely done quests without any filler, very fun combat that requires being careful, being prepared... to writing, which surprised me the most. In Witcher 1, there was some good writing in it, and some worse writing. I love the game to bits, but it was not completely on the level of books that preceded it (I read all 7 of them, first time 12 years ago, second time year ago, love them). Witcher 2 though....it is written so well it could have been written by Sapkowski himself. It just blew me away. Every single character is interesting. There are no caricatures. Story itself is just wonderfully done, and there are even two completely different paths to go through it, with many smaller decisions and consequences along the way. I played Iorveth's path only so far (will replay with Roche once 1.3 is out) and it was just incredible. It is just amazing continuation of books, and I hope if Sapkowski ever decides to write about Geralt again, he will not invalidate the stories of the games. Because if he does, I guess I would just ignore his next books, or take them as non-canon. Witcher 2 just seems so much above its competition. I want to thank the team at CDP for giving me such an amazing experiences. Everything they do, from awesome distribution of games in central europe, to forming GOG, to bringing Geralt to our screens in such amazing form...just thank you. I hope you will never change, never get bought, keep your current team (I hope Tomek wil return one day too) and keep creating games like Witcher 2 for us. My 2 cents are finished.

the way the controls are set up in this game make it practically unplayable don't wast your time and money on it. the witcher 1 was good though but this is awful.

u can't change your keyboards keys combat is little clunky when your load game enemies already attacking you if you play higher difficult you already death same happen when conversation is over saving is annoying no save slots and if you have too much saves loading get too slow leveling system is bad story is average

It's one of the best action RPGs there are (definitely better than shitty Bethesda games or Bioware crap) but still I wouldn't rate it higher than 7/10 and that's because it's boring at times, many quests are tedious (where you often have to pixel hunt) and after 1st chapter decline happens. 2nd chapter has worse quests (much backtracking is involved and many quests are plain boring like burning the corpses) and location themselves are bland and unimaginative. And 3rd chapter is a joke, very short with almost no quests (prologue is even worse but I can let it slide since it's a prologue, epilogue has at least an interesting fight in it). It looks especially bad when you take Roche's path (I think there are less quests and they are definitely more boring). There are still quite a few bugs in the game, often there are containers that you can't get into or places that you can't get out from and have to reload. Saving system is a joke (you can't name your saves as you like and thumbnails showing the location do not always work) and QTE and cutscenes are annoying. Also, new fighting system is a bit annoying even on Normal difficulty. There are the reasons why I gave it only 3 stars (would have given 3.5 if I could but 4 is just too much). Still, the fact that you can see some things from different perspectives and C&C having some meaning it's definitely not a total disaster but I've enjoyed Witcher 1 much better. At the current price (i.e. 5$ and below) it's a must buy though.

Couldn't give any real comment on storyline. I tried playing the game several times but the user interface (on PC) is just so bad it was like going back 15 years. Got so pissed off about it that to save myself stress it was easier to just delete the friggen thing. Witcher 1 was much better and even then it left a lot to be desired. I think this is more for 'twitch' console gamers but even then perhaps only if you were an epileptic.