Posted on: June 2, 2015
Caveman03
Verified ownerGames: 121 Reviews: 3
Excellent
If you can stand the different combat system this game is an incredible showcase for whats to come.
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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Description
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:
- An interactive comic book
- D'jinni Adventure Editor
- Two new adventures offering 5 hours of gameplay
- Official Soundtrack
- “Music Inspired by The Witcher” album
- “Making of” videos
- Official Game Guide
- Two maps of The Witcher's world
The Witcher © 2008 CD PROJEKT S.A. All rights reserved. The Witcher and The Witcher logo are trademarks of CD PROJEKT Capital Group. All rights reserved. BioWare, the BioWare Aurora Engine and the BioWare logo are trademarks of BioWare Corp. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, GeForce and 'The Way It's Meant to be Played' logo are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved. The Witcher game is set in the universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski in his series of books. All other copyrights and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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game guide (German)
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manual (Italian)
manual (Polish)
game guide (Italian)
game guide (Polish)
Digital Comic (App)
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35 hMain
46 h Main + Sides
63.5 h Completionist
46 h All Styles
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User reviews
Posted on: June 4, 2015
molbac
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 1
great game
a bit wanky combat system but great game
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Posted on: June 5, 2015
Falke4ever
Verified ownerGames: 673 Reviews: 4
Good Open World
This game i really liked, cause not for the graphic but for the environment and for the semi-freedom of doing things in the game, exploration and other. I also appreciate the bonus music and the guide book are very beautiful. So why no try once?
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Posted on: June 8, 2015
pred1059
Verified ownerGames: 84 Reviews: 1
Rough round the edges, but still good.
The first installment of The Witcher shows some age, with it's 2007 release. However, It's undeniable that a lot of time and effort was put into making it look great with what was available. Especially the full in game cutscenes. The writing of the Enhanced edition is also fantastic, even if you know nothing about the series(which the game even works with in it's story via amnesiac protagonist). In terms of Combat, it's an interesting mix. You can go for hours slicing through enemies like it's nothing, then hit a brick wall with some new monster that will laugh at almost anything you throw at it. However, it's not quite frustrating, as it encourages in-game research on each enemy, to find those weaknesses and exploit them. An ounce of preparedness helps as well, to keep a good selection of potions and oils on hand(haven't used bombs much though....). Overall, I would encourage people to give the first game a shot, simply to get a feel for the story if nothing else.
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Posted on: June 14, 2015
MetisRebel
Verified ownerGames: 162 Reviews: 18
Let There Be Decision Depth--Yuppity!
I'm probably one of the few who liked this far better than Witcher II. Why? Because I am a Sapokowski fan and I liked my third option of being neutral between rebellion and authoritarianism which didn't exist in TWII. Geralt spends much of the book time avoiding politics although not always with much success. The decisions had impact on the world around Geralt, sometimes less, sometimes more but I always felt they mattered somehow and I'd best be careful what to choose. And never knowing when a decision was going to come back to haunt or help down the road. One portion that wowed me was detecting the *wrong* killer in Ch2 and still being able to complete it all wrong with a harder boss fight. And no QTE's. I hated those in TWII. My rage at the misogynist cleric in CH1 was palpable. I was so enraged I didn't care what the consequences were if I saved the witch. Now that's emotional depth in a game! Yes, the sex cards were a bit silly. The environment was beautiful in it's day and it stills hold up reasonably well although the character models of course look aged. For some reason my old DVD copy won't load onto my new hard drive [one of the few games I paid full price for, too!] so I guess I will pick up a sale copy here on GOG so I can virtually hug my old friends in it and maybe play it through again. If you have an old machine or just want to play the entire series, for the few dollars you will get plenty of entertainment value out of this game. I thought it was well worth the full price when I bought it 'way back and there's very few games I can say that about!
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