The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

This is a fun game. Some people might assume from the presence of combat, rolling blocking and many other hack and slash adventures that the witcher 2 is more akin to hack and slashers like Dark Souls or Lords of the fallen. Indeed, association with Bandai Namco can give you that impression. However, this is a story-driven game with some combat to break up the boredom, much like the first witcher. Why? Combat is a nerve wracking dice roll. It's unresponsive, clunky and as opposed to Dark Souls, completely unfair. The beginning of the game you are a wuss. You can fight, but you deal very little damage, take a ton, and can only use signs once every minute. But that's the point. You shouldn't engage in combat, magic is of limited use, and planning is everything. Traps deal excessive damage, knives are far more effective than igni, and once you get past the first few missions, you'll have a witcher that can actually deal some damage. In fact, even on Dark, if you don't die within Flotsam, you can beat the rest of the game without ever coming close. The game forces you to think deliberately about what you want to do: you need to meditate before each engagement, to plan, to stock up, equipment accounts for your usual progression, because witcher skills are few, far between and not strictly for that purpose: they're more tactical opportunities rather than incremental upgrades. I love it.One of the main reasons why I bought this game after pirating it a long time ago. A nice bonus is that this game tried to go out of its way to be as visually impressive as possible. It has a lot of nice touches, like hidden loading screens that don't even show up on an SSD. It has one of the few non-ENB implementations of Bokeh (which admittedly looks far too intense and is sometimes too distracting), and Ubersampling: it renders two frames in time, and takes the average of the pixel colour, which naturally halves your FPS. It's surprisingly less efficient than 4x supersampling.

I have fond memories of this game even bought the original on CD when it was all new. Since I have lost my CD over the years, imagine my excitement when I found the game as a free backup on gog. Well, my excitement soon turned into endless frustration because nothing is working with this mess since I synchronized it with gog. Whenever I try to enter the character or inventory menu, all I am presented with is a black screen. I cannot leave the menu anymore, I cannot continue anymore. Only way to get out of it is force shutting the game using alt+ctrl+del. At this point I have already tried all different graphic cards settings, have tried to start the game at different devices with different operation systems but nothing works. Please fix this. In this state the game is unplayable. And even worse - it destroyed the former working version of it which I had installed from CD but cannot install anymore because the CD went missing over the years.

Well done guys. I have bought the first one and have bought this. Especially happy about no drm and good value! Keep it up!

This is the Oblivion of the Witcher series. It isn't nearly as good as the Witcher 3, much like Oblivion isn't nearly as good as Skyrim, but like Oblivion, it shows a lot of promise of what would come next. The lack of map markers for side quests is one issue the game has, not a huge deal but looking up how to finish some of the side quests can be a pain, and the inventory, character, and meditation system isn't nearly as good as the third. But with all the small flaws put to the side, its still a fun game and has some great dialog, storytelling, and action. All in all, totally worth picking up on sale.

Man i'm from Brazil and i'm totally buying this, cause CD Project RED, you guys are the only ones who give a fuck for the PC gamers, here i am, i'll buy right now! Long live CD Project RED!