The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

The Witcher 2 is a different kind of game. I had been gifted the Witcher 3 on Steam, and I bought the enhanced edition here on GOG on sale for $10. The game's voice acting, dialogue, and graphics are all truly wonders to behold; masterpieces like Skyrim and Dark Souls cannot live up to it. On a technical level, the game is great, with keybinds and controller rebinds. I was still disappointed you can't bind multiple controller keys for one thing. The "special action" must be bound, but I never used it. The story is detailed, challenging, and engaging. Every moment felt important, even if I was dumping down harpy traps or blowing up nekker nests. Characters like Triss, Roche, Iorveth, and Letho are all unforgettable and have unique personalities, more so than any game I've played. The ending is satisfying, no matter what you choose in the end, and even something as small as gore and sex scenes are done well with a great deal of maturity, unlike Bioware's silly animations. There were a few things that bothered me, but did not detract from my experience. The combat is clunky, very much how clunky Dark Souls was, only you are rewarded for spamming the dodge key frequently. Upgrade trees are highly offence focused, and you often ignore the other perk points. But this doesn't mean combat wasn't engaging. One thing that bothered me was a perk that allowed you to hit multiple enemies at once, something that should be available from the start. Lack of fast travel made backtracking through levels, and side missions felt rewarding, but not as important as the main game. I still respect the developers, but it felt more restrictive and disagree with a design choice. This game used to be $50 and was likely dwarfed by other fantasy giants at the time, Skyrim and Dark Souls. I've played all 3 games for at least 60 hours, and I can count on 60 more hours from this game for the branching endings. Final verdict: Buy this game at full price.

love the game and has alternate path to choose from, 10/10

The Witcher 2 is so much worse than The Witcher 3, that I have uninstalled it after 10 hours of playtime. The main problem is the unplayable Battlesystem. Yes, the story and character writing is wunderfull, but that battles... they are so bad that you simply can't play the game after you have played The Witcher 3. Because there the battles are also not great, but nothing in comparison to that. I really recommend to skip this game and read or watch the story on Youtube. So as a short verdict, it is really sad that you can't play that immersive story driven game because of the poor battlesystem.

Before I start to write my review I wanted to talk about witcher world. This is completely the best game series you have ever seen in your life. If you didn't play Witcher 1 this game will be a little shady. I recommend playing the first game and understand it. After that, we can play Witcher 2. Now we can talk about witcher 2. I want to tell + and - of game. + 1. We can import our first game and decisions will affect there. 2. Witcher 2 is a little political game for me. You will be trap in 2 sides which both of them have a different story. 3. Game mechanics are good for me. 4. Graphics are decent. I like it actually. If you try max graphics you will understand what I say. 5. Different maps and a lot of tales. Try to check everywhere. Who knows what you will find there. 6. Kinds of Stuff. A lot of special swords and treasures. 7. Arena. Don't fight alone :) And I can go on but now I want to talk about - of game. 1. The insane difficulty is not fair. If you die even in the end game over. 2. We don't have a lot of girls instead of Witcher 1. Just 2 or 3. 3. Pieces of Stuff are very expensive. 4. The skill tree is very limited. You must use mods to resolve that problem. These minuses actually are the hardness of this game. Some people like hardness. They will have dark difficulty there which is really hard. At the end of my review, I want to give my rating for the game. I think this game deserv 4.5 starts. But I gave 5. Thanks for the game CD PROJECT.

5*