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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What I mean by that, is all these years later, I STILL remember getting up and pacing before I made a decision. Who to believe? What's the best thing to do? I was totally transported back when this game first came out. It has to rank as one of my all time best gaming experiences. In fact, I'm playing it again and surprised by how much of it I actually remember 12 years later. It makes it so much deeper than a typical game if you care about the characters. What an accomplishment. And of course, I've since read most of the books and I'm genuinely excited about the Netflix series. I hope they do the tales justice.
There are many things to like about this game: The atmosphere is fantastic, the world and characters intriguing, and the music... oh THE MUSIC! It's really among the best I've heard in a game.
Unfortunately, the rest of the game doesn't quite live up to that.
The story, while confusing and not without issues, is at least interesting and not the typical fantasy plot, and some choices really feel important. But it takes quite some time until it gets going, and there is a part in the middle where it completely stops for a whole chapter - really, chapter four felt like chapter one all over again, and chapter one was where I stopped playing when I first tried to play through it a few years ago. This time, I managed to get past that, and it gets better afterwards, but during chapter four I got close to quitting again. The last part was a bit better again, but overall it felt too long, and in the meantime you spend a lot of time running around the same places over and over again. Each chapter consists of a small number of outdoor maps, and they are often connected in a way that lets you run in circles all the time. While some of these maps are pretty large, movement is restricted by clear borders and obstacles, and as Geralt cannot jump he always has to run around them. And some maps are just awful (especially the swamp cemetery in chapter 5).
Yeah, combat is not that great, but you probably already knew that. I must say that there was a point where I felt I'd gotten the hang of it and then I actually enjoyed it for a while, but then it became dull and repetitive, especially with all the fighting that goes on toward the end. Some boss fights were alright and offered a bit of a different challenge, but overall, there was not a lot of variation, and fighting weaker enemies becomes a chore in the later game, especially as some actions can't be done with enemies nearby, like entering a cave or building.
All in all, not the worst game I've played, but far from the best.
I like a lot of things about the game, but the fight system nearly ruins the rest of this good game. Before you buy go on youtube and watch some fight scenes, than decide if you buy or not. When you get over the fight system, you will get a pretty good RPG.
One of best deal if it's discounted! Great if you're looking for fine adventure in great universum... for few bucks.
Pros:
+ interesting protagonist - you play as Geralt ;)
+ unique universum and atmosphere
+ verry good music
+ not bad visuals if it's set on max
+ combat system better than people think - just need to remember this game runs on Aurora Engine by BioWare - so it's just little "retro" ;)
+ your choices matter - multiple endings
Neutral:
= story - for me it's kinda love/hate relationship - but for sure interesting
Cons:
- sometimes lots of backtracking
- you can fell lost during some quests (need solution)
- closed "chapters" - you can't go back to previous locations if you progress the story, even if you want to complete sidequests. Want to revisit Outskirts and Village? No can do if you already are in Vizima.
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