The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

The mechanics of game play are very odd and takes some time to adjust. Pressing the space bar in the game puts you into active pause where you can then call up several screens to aid the Witcher in combat or learn something about a new character or monster or navigating the game world via a map or the journal entries that track the quest discoveries and makes notes of your progress in the game. Character abilities are extensive but as to which to develop for your Witcher are not very clear. The GUI screens are over sized but cluttered and not very enlightening. Combat is via simple L R mouse clicks that are furthered by watching a visual cue of your mouse cursor indicator lighting up with a flaming sword to indicate to press the L button to string the next combo of blows and parries providing you have bought the right abilities via talents you acquire as you level up. Odd indeed and it takes getting used to and a sense of timing and anticipation to know when to press the button to be effective in combat. Be prepared for a bit of frustration when fighting powerful monsters or opponents and be prepared to get mowed down unless you learn how to concoct the Witcher's special Alchemical brews to survive the heavy bosses. Another weirdness is the fact that sometimes you'll get penned in by the physical environment as experienced in the swamp cemetery. The last bad thing is the Witcher is super unstable with frequent crashes so save often.

I was terribly disappointed with this game. It looks interesting, the graphics are good for the time it was made, but the controls are hideous - ESPECIALLY the combat controls. You can't configure your mouse for movement, and the attack function is horrible.

The game is fantastic and beyond expectations — until the technical issues became too much for me. I've tried a few workarounds regarding the game not starting and crashes and whatnot, and I'm now re-downloading and re-installing the game. It's frustrating, so be warned if you're thinking of getting it — you may need to devote plenty of time to GOG support forum among others before you can get it to work. (I'm on OS X 10.9.3)

This game is a refreshing change from the norm and the setting is so unique and appealing that I am considering running a Witcher game for my Pen and Paper RPG group! The combat (which is generally never a major strength of RPG's anyway-certainly not the reason I play them) is solid enough and while both types of sword have very similar styles, it is at hte end of the day, a way of eking out a bit more choice when it comes to character development, even if the actual on screen effects are a bit repetitive. The storyline is fantastic - I will point out that I did a silent groan and thought to myself "Oh no-not another hero with amnesia plot!" but given the wealth of backstory, it is difficult to figure out how else they could give the player the freedom to mould Geralt to their own tastes without it running counter to canon for those who may have read the novels or are otherwise familiar with Geralt. It actually works fairly well in game anyway and very rarely does the amnesia mechanic spoil anything. In fact, coming to the Witcher universe fresh (as I did) was if anything probably more fun as you piece Geralt's memories together with him, and grow more attached over time, even if "your" Geralt turns out a bit different to the original! In short there are hours of gameplay here for a bargain price. The game pokes fun at both itself and standard RPG tropes and cliches and for all the darkness and grittiness of setting and tone, it also manages to not take itself too seriously and I have to say I had fantastic fun. As a final note on some of the mature themes and so on..... While people who are offended or otherwise upset by the content (particularly the nudity etc) are entitled to their opinion, at the end of the day it is stated pretty clearly on the box/store page that the game contains mature content. Furthermore, it's not like it has to be a major part of the game! Off the top of my head there are only around 2 or so characters in the game that you will see wandering around nude-anything else is as a result of collecting their romance card -which you can only have seen by CHOOSING to complete whatever prerequisites there are to get them to sleep with Geralt! Suffice to say you can ignore this aspect of the game if you like and miss nothing in terms of plot. In short, everyone should get this game and enjoy it their way-theres a lot of fun to be had!

I bought the game this morning.. i tried in a computer with operative sistem of 64 bits and later, after uninstalling it, in another with 32 bits. Don't work in neither, even having installed DirectX 9.0c. I'm very dissapointed...