The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

From all the royal steam rolling from EA and friends over the years I almost forgot that I was the customer. CD projekt your my hero. I am completely at a loss that a programming house is showing so much love. I loved the first Witcher if the sequel is half the game of the first it will be the best thing I have played all year. Can't wait for the 17th. (><) You guys can just take my money for a third one now.

Even occasional camera glitch wont break spell for me. Story is long and rich and there are no bugs that turn you away. Didnt crash once yet in 30+ hours. Purchased from GOG because of the lesser hassle with codes later on. 5 stars for the game and 5 stars to developers who put time and effort for the game to have its own piece of soul, so to speak. This one beats last 4-5 Rpgs hands down.

I somehow missed the original Witcher upon release and did not play Witcher EE until early 2011. I was exceptionally amazed at what I had overlooked. I don't need opinions or reviews. I support CD Projekt Red and know the best way to show it. Downloading now.

The game suffers from two tremendous flaws. First, it assumes the player is familiar with th esetting and played the previous game. Characters, names and events are getting dropped left and right, and the game assumes the player is already familiar with them. The journal is only of limited help dispelling the convoluted mess of people and agendas. Without prior knowledge of the books and previous game, the story quickly becomes a jumbled, disinteresting mess. Secondly, the combat - the gameplay that makes up about 70% of the time you'll spend in this game - is shit. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. The animations are awkward. The controls feel disconnected from the characters action. The aiming is atrocious. The fights are all samey waves of enemies bumrushing you and trying to surround you. To add insult to injury, the Axii and Quen signs are hilariously broken. You will be able to finish every fight in the first half of the game on hard simply by castign quen and mashing either mouse button. So long asyou remember to reapply quen when it times you, you are effectively immortal. The final insult arrives when you realize that the fight in the monestary in the prologue is going to be the hardest fight in the entire game. Shortly after you unlock 360 degree parries with 100% damage reduction. And from then on, things only get easier. It is a crying shame, because the game certainly had a lot of potential. If they had someone who was not already intricately familiar with the setting proofread the plot for them and took time to make a combat engine worth playing, the game may actually have been a GOTY contender. What we do have is a jumbled, fragmented mess. People who are already invested in the setting are probably going to find something in there to make it all worthwhile. But if you are new to the franchise, do yourself a favour and grab another game instead. This will not be the title to win you over.

While the game is truly beautiful, it has suffered numerous bugs that have hampered even negated gameplay. Normally I'd have shelved this title because of the bugs, but the story and artwork are nice, I hope they release more content because 3 chapters seems a little on the light side for the cost at release. Even with the 16 different endings, that's pushing replay a little far for me personally, but I'm sure others wished there were more. All in all the game is worth a look, and if the bugs get fixed I'd definitely add a star even though it's short, the game can be fun, and frustrating at the same time. WARNING: This game is not for the easily offended, and it can be brutal on low to mid level gaming rigs.