The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

Right off the bat, the combat is really satisfying. The first act is perfection and sadly drops down from there but not significant enough to drop stars. Same protagonist as the first instalment which is a shame, would have much preferred to play as Letho. Some stupid decisions by the creators (which is kind of a constant throughout the series) but once again not enough to drop stars. Best one in the series I thought.

This game is absolute masterpiece and Witcher 3 is only game which can compete with this one on RPG field. It isn't perfect of course but nothing can be. An atmosphere is awesome, gameplay immersive, only colors could be less saturated, but it can't ruin the experience and feeling of being part of this brutal world, because the atmosphere is created by story - story which isn't black or white - it's always grey shaded.

The story lines were very well done. The potion system absolutely sucks, There is no way to know if you need a potion buff, Until your in combat, And then your not allowed to stop and drink them. This is idiotic. You can only know if you need a potion after you have been killed? What genius thought that one up? The combat was very simple, Hit them fast or hit them hard, Roll away if you need to. And use a quen sigil in case they hit you. What i liked was the auto targeting made you attack another unit, Even if your camera was facing the wrong way at the time. The scenery was beautiful most of the time, But there were those moments where they used cartoons to fill in time. I thought that was cheesy. Especially after you watch the credits for nearly an hour, Just to see a tiny animation of the south attacking the north. That was lame. Crafting turned out to be useless in this game, Because the loot i picked up was better than the stuff i could make. Unless there were some hidden diagrams somewhere that i missed, But the game sometimes jerks you into a new area when your not ready to leave yet. And this causes you to fail a lot of quests that you were almost finished with. The game should have the option to return to an area if you want. So you can finish the quests. Overall I give this game 4/5 stars, Because even though it's a good fun game. The potions and crafting systems were not helpful at all. And because of the lack of free travel that would allow me to finish quests. But for the price, It's one hell of a game.

My first Witcher game and one of my favourites

I bought The Witcher on Steam during one of their sales. I gave it a try and found it to be a tad bit confusing. I gave up after a few hours. I wanted to give The Witcher 2 a pass but after reading that CD Projekt RED is releasing TW2 with no DRM, I decided that i'm going to give TW1 another try and buy TW2. Thank you CD Projekt RED for rewarding your legitimate paying customers with no intrusive DRMs. I have just bought my copy of TW2 and you can be sure I will be supporting your future releases and GOG.com