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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Windows Version Update (13 November 2024)
Added DirectX to dependencies, ensuring proper compatibility with required libraries
Set core affinity to the first 2 CPU cores, improving performance on modern systems
Validated stability
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Update 1.5 (A) (22 March 2017)
Added support for Cloud Saves in GOG Galaxy 1.2 and newer
I'm a big fan of this game. The graphics are good, the gameplay is exciting, and the storyline is awesome.
But the poker dice minigame is f*cking atrocious. I have never seen such unbelievably stacked luck. It literally doesn't matter what I roll. I can have a full house, and my opponent will roll four of a kinds. Two pair, my opponent will roll three of a kind. Straight, and my opponent will roll full house.
Every time. Every single f*cking time.
I don't know what CD Projekt Red were thinking when they made this minigame, but the computer is so impossibly lucky that it makes me think they rigged it on f*cking purpose just to make sure everyone who plays the game loses their g*dd*mned m*therf*cking mind every time they roll those stupid, f*cking, obviously loaded dice.
I played this game, when I was a child. I was destroyed with this beatiful graphics and interesting adventures. Today this game looks so fresh. I think, it is better than Witcher 3. Reallt, this game is masterpiece.
I'll start by saying that I really enjoyed this game. The combat system was great! I loved the timing of swinging and switching between styles, I played both OTS and top-down styles of camera, and I have no complaints about controls at all! Different and fantastic, I loved the controls from the get go. The magic system was interesting, but even on my magic-focused play-through, I found the signs to be a little clunky and not nearly so polished as the sword-play. The alchemy was fun, although it discouraged experimentation; if your recipe wasn't exactly right, all it would do is harm you in some way, with no indication of possible beneficial effects.
My biggest criticisms, though, were in story and character development. Firstly, the over-abundance of cut scenes that I have no input into served only to frustrate me, teasing me with dialogue that I couldn't direct or affect. Secondly, while there were definitely some hard choices in this game, most antagonists were cartoonishly bad, and the choices about them were easy. The first big decision your character makes in the Outskirts was bland, easy, and unsatisfying. Thirdly, for a game so focused on identity and motivations, why don't they represent various motivations possible for these choices? Obviously you can't account for all of them, but just because you choose to side with one group doesn't mean you have to drink their Kool-Aid! Even a few general dialogue options, to keep Geralt from sounding like a racist or apathetic narcissist, would be nice. Finally, the "romance" system was a joke. Just about every female NPC you meet will throw themselves at you; one literally promises to do it on a nearby rock if you give her a prettier ring than her sister has. This ties into a general abundance of "WTH?" moments in the game's dialogue, probably stemming from translation issues, although I never stopped being jarred by characters saying things like "abso-f******-lutely" and "mother-f*****" in a medieval fantasy world.
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