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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Come on! I was one of the original people who bought the Witcher when it was still plagued with technical problems like long loading times, crash to desktops, performance issues, graphics anomalies, quests bugs, etc. but after a couple of months CDPR, those fine dudes where able to address majority of the problem.
Fast forward to this day, I have three copies of this game, one through from a local Filipino retail store, second from Steam, and now "DRM-FREE" crap from gog.com, pardon my last entry to those who are offended but the last phrase should be understood as sarcasm.
In a nutshell: great graphics for its era, mediocre story, absolutely ridiculous battle system, lots of sex that doesn't even fit to the story, and a very boring gameplay. I give it 2 stars for the graphics only.
You play as Geralt, a walking dead with pale skin, long white hair, and a crooked nose. Still, your guy attracts women as poo attracts flies. Every single female in this game wants to have sex with you, even in the most inappropriate situations: you make a potion to save a unconscious girl, she wakes up, and she immediately wants to have sex with you; or you are in a cave with a witch, her chasers are waiting outside to burn her, but guess what - she wants sex with you. Etc etc.
You may think that developers have a very poor sex life, so they added a lot of it in a virtual world. But no, the reason for all that is the fact sex in games is trendy and sells well. And what makes it more ridiculous is the fact there are not even sex scenes in the game. You just collect cards for every girl you 'had sex' with. So I guess even youngsters who would buy this game for the sex will be disappointed.
Putting the hilarious sexism aside, the game has great graphics that stand well even today, but that is all. The story is bland and won't make you wanting to see what happens in the next chapter.
Crafting system is just alchemy: you can make potions from ingredients you find, but only a few of them have some practical use.
The battle system is ridiculous. You have to pick from 3 different fighting styles, depending on your opponents. When the battle begins, all you have to do is click the attack button, wait for the cursor to become a flaming sword, then attack again to make a attack chain, then repeat. Boring and repetitive as hell. It's basically a quicktime event. Oh, and you have a few spells at your disposal, which are rarely necessary.
There are also a few mini games, all of them boring and basically a click fest.
All in all, it's not worth your money. Stay away.
Honestly the gameplay is completely stiff and redundant, the idea of using point of click in 3D fast combat environments is absolutely horrible, not only this but the world itself is dark and depressing and the characters are unlikable and all very typical fantasy stereotypes, how this game is being called creative and innovative completely begs to question, and whilst some may find interest in the fantasy lore and setting, there are far better ways to spend your time than playing this game, do not buy this game even out of curiosity for cheap, opt for a better fantasy game such as Gothic, Diablo, Baldurs gate etc
I learned to appreciate The Witcher 3 even more, that game was already a 10/10 for me, but now it's more like a 12/10.
None of the cutscenes worked for me on this game and the combat style are to old for my taste, it's atleast cool to see how similar Kaer Morhen are and how areas looked from the start.
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