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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

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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...
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Product details
2007, CD PROJEKT RED, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
Windows 10, Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +30...
Time to beat
35 hMain
46 h Main + Sides
63 h Completionist
46.5 h All Styles
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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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Time to beat
35 hMain
46 h Main + Sides
63 h Completionist
46.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Mac OS X (11, 12, 13)
Release date:
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Size:
9.7 GB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood and Gore, Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, Strong Language)

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What improvements we made to this game:
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
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Posted on: June 10, 2020

velocioraptor

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Games: 69 Reviews: 1

Great Game

The Witcher is definitely showing it's old age when compared to today's titles. Combat mechanics are outdated, voice acting is pretty terrible, UI is sometimes confusing... However, something about it makes me happy. It has a lot of charm, either because of the universe, the lore, the developer's love for the game, or because it invokes a feeling of nostalgia... It also has a great atmosphere despite the outdated graphics, more so than many current titles. In the end, I find it to be a lovely game despite it's apparent flaws, and I will undoubtely be playing it again sometime in the near future.


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Posted on: March 19, 2023

Bigodenho

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Games: 513 Reviews: 15

The pinnacle of cRPGs

Never before have the moral dilemmas in a computer game been so difficult and so deep. And so meaningful. This was actually the first video game where the player had a real impact on the world. A very realistic world, as far as fantasy worlds go. I mean: This is not high fantasy. Compared to many other RPGs, this one is quite dirty and has got a lot of grey shades. This is just an ideal adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's novels, whose style is very cynical. The combat system has also been well thought out as well. The statistics of the character rather than the skills of the player are what counts on the battlefield. In this system, you just click at the right time - like in a rhythm game - and Geralt does the rest spectacularly. It is a controversial opinion, but the first Wither and the Thronebreaker are my favourites of the whole franchise.


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Posted on: November 17, 2013

DarthGrabass

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Games: 8 Reviews: 1

Awkward and dull

I'm glad I only paid a couple bucks for this highly praised game. Is it just nostalgia that has people raving about this? After a mind-numbingly long introduction, I finally was allowed to do something, and boy, the mechanics are awkward. Combat is the worst. The combat mechanics manage to be both incredibly simple and incredibly awkward. Just click on the opponent at the right time and then swap out fighting styles for different opponents. It's just really boring. I can't even make it through the first scenario. It's just one gratingly dull fight after another occasionally interrupted by a boring cutscene.


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Posted on: September 20, 2019

MasterW

Verified owner

Games: 186 Reviews: 10

Mediocre

Just finished my second playthrough and this is a mediocre game at best. The atmosphere is great, just like the music and the story plot twists. But everything else is just so annoying. The combat is the worst, point and click and it depends on correctly timing your attacks and luck more than strategy. Some RNG combat effects, like "pain", take all strategy out of the game. It has some bad level designs, like the swamp or sewers area where enemies constantly respawn after a few minutes. The fights often feel unfair or have extreme difficulty spikes. The animations and characters are repetitive, the controls are often unresponsive which makes the combat unnecessary difficult. There are only a few gear upgrades, which aren't available until you've completed at least 90% of the game. The story is decent but lacks in several areas. For example, in the beginning of the story some key characters are introduced which are never seen nor heard from again. The minigames are 90% luck based, don't expect something like Gwent. It has some good plot twists and just like the second and third game some decisions will impact the story much later in unexpected ways. But there is no reason to play this game, just play the second and preferable the third game which are both much better.


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Posted on: May 10, 2020

Joelxfire

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Games: 63 Reviews: 5

I love it

What I love of this game is its history, it's an excellent one with very good characters, situacions and choices. What I also love about this game it's how it talks about morality, showing that not always there's the good choice and the bad choice. Buy it now 10/10


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