The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system.
Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and...
The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system.
Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and get caught in a web of intrigue woven by forces vying for control of the world. Make difficult decisions and live with the consequences in a game that will immerse you in an extraordinary tale like no other.
KEY FEATURES
GERALT OF RIVIA: A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTAGONIST
Take on the role of Geralt of Rivia: a charismatic swordmaster and professional monster slayer.
Choose from over 250 special abilities, combat skills and magical powers to build a character best suited to your style of play.
ORIGINAL FANTASY WORLD DRAWN FROM LITERATURE
Enter a harsh fantasy world inspired by the writings of renowned Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, where nothing is truly black or white, right or wrong.
NON-LINEAR STORYLINE
Immerse yourself in an epic narrative full of turns, twists and ambiguous moral decisions which have real impact on the storyline.
Accomplish quests in a variety of ways and see how the narrative culminates in one of three different endings depending on your actions.
STUNNING TACTICAL ACTION
Engage in elaborate, yet intuitive real-time combat based on real medieval sword-fighting techniques.
Battle using six combat styles, dozens of potions, complex alchemy system, modifiable weapons and powerful magic which all add tactical depth to the fluid real-time experience.
Motion capture performed by medieval fighting experts at Frankfurt's renowned Metric Minds studio, resulting in 600 spectacular and authentic in-game combat animations.
ABOUT THE WITCHER: ENHANCED EDITION
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition takes all of the acclaimed gameplay that garnered the original game more than 90 industry awards and introduces a number of gameplay and technical improvements.
Superior dialogue and cutscenes: Over 5000 rewritten and re-recorded lines of dialogue in English, completely redone German language version, as well as over 200 new gesture animations create a more consistent experience and make characters behave more believably in dialogue and cutscenes.
Enhanced inventory: A separate sack for alchemy ingredients, as well as a simple sort-and-stack function streamline item organization and usage.
Technical improvements: Numerous technical enhancements feature greatly reduced loading times, improved stability, combat responsiveness, faster inventory loading, an option to turn auto-saving on or off, and more.
Character differentiation system: The system randomizes the appearance of dozens of in-game models in order to add more variety to monsters and NPCs.
The Witcher Enhanced Edition comes with these bonus items:
manual
artbook
wallpapers
game guide
maps
The Witcher calendar
The Witcher story
music inspired by The Witcher (MP3)
soundtrack (MP3)
avatars
behind the scenes
creator interviews (Atari)
creator interviews (CD Projekt RED)
music video
music inspired by The Witcher (FLAC)
soundtrack (FLAC)
manual (German)
game guide (German)
manual (Russian)
manual (Italian)
manual (Polish)
game guide (Italian)
game guide (Polish)
Digital Comic (App)
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I tried this with my M1 8gb Mac and the game couldn't hold more than 30fps with frequent dips into the teens, should? work fine on Intel Macs. GOG should update tags or optimize further since performance is abysmal and makes the game nearly unplayable.
I know people enjoyed it but honestly as much as i try i get bored. Other rpgs like this i liked alot and i really wanted to get engrossed into the world but couldn't. Alot of rpg's ill overlook dull parts or levels (dragon age i'm looking at you ) if i'm engrossed in the story but the witcher i can't find anything to interest me.
1) The sex- i bring this up due to being told about the mature themes of the witcher such as having sex with anything that ,moves even one i did accidental due to the dialogue choice and words actually spoken were different things. Not a game changer for me but strange in a mature game.
2) Amnesia main character - great now 2 people know nothing about the game world or what's really at stake.
3) The potions etc are ok if you really like alchemy etc you'll like it.
4) The voice acting is not just bad but some sound bored which i find harder to forgive in games with bad acting but good gameplay.
5)The story and characters i just don't find are anything special which eliminated my interest and i kept coming back every month before giving up.
Give it a go however i must be missing something that people get from this game that i don't.
The Witcher came with a lot buzz around, and still looks like is held in high regard among fans of the new cRPGs. Sadly, probably only them will love the game, while others will be annoyed by many things.
First of all, game crashes randomly. It's an Enhanced Edition, the game's version number is 1.4, and it still can freak out to Windows. This is plain bull**it.
While the game looks like a milion bucks in gold, and has great, fitting soundtrack (and not bad "inspired by" album), the gameplay is built mostly around fetch quests. Bring 10 skulls of monsters of certain type. Bring me 5 flowers. I need 15 wolfskins etc. It's just stupid, and pretty much ruins the interesting mechanic of dialogue choices, which can affect the non-linear story, the main feat of the game.
Combat mechanics is a whole different story. At first, I was disoriented - why my hero just stands like a doofus and doesn't fight? The trick is, the combat is very simplified - you just can point the cursor at the enemy, and just click whenever the cursor changes it's shape. Yes, really, that's all about it. Of course, there are different kind of swords and styles, but it doesn't add much of a strategy - if the enemy isn't hurt by your constany swinging, just press key and try again. Which brings us to the camera setting - forget about the good 'ol isometric perspective, if you don't want to go insane, choose the OTS/TPP camera and keyboard+mouse controls.
Oh, and the voice actors. While the Polish ones are fairly good, I choosed from curiosity the English, and later German. They sound horrible and make all the characters dumb, so you may want to disable the voice-acting at all, stick to the subtitles and just admire the music.
Overall, The Witcher is not a bad game - it does have an interesting plot, looks and sounds good, comes with an adventure editor and is fairly playable and entertaining - it's not just "one of the best cRPGs ever" - this is pure PR crap. An okay game, for okay price, nothing more, nothing less.
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