Ведьмак 2: Убийцы королей

*The Good* - It looks great, especially for a fairly old game. - The setting is still fairly interesting. - There are some nice dilemma's. Basically, i still like all the same things i did in TW1 and some elements were improved. Of course, they did add new bad stuff. *The Bad* - Combat is still worthless. There were only a couple of interesting fights. - Since you get so few skill points you basically have to focus on melee or magic, making combat even more boring. - Literally nothing is explained. Stealth, signs, looting (Space collects all), etc. - Button-mashing and QTEs. Why, oh god, why? - Tons of backtracking... again... - Still no freaking fast travel. - The worst verticality in a game ever. You have to walk to a specific point for the climb trigger to show up. It completely kills the flow and sometimes make you seasick with its janky camera movements. - Vergen seems to have been designed by M.C. Escher. - Constant doors everywhere in Flotsam. Seriously, did they order too many doors or something? - They keep mispronouncing Roche's name as "Roach". Took me a while to realise they were the same person. - At the start of Act II you regain all your items, easily putting you at nearly double the weight limit. There doesn't seem to be a storage or shop nearby, forcing you to crawl to town. - Multiple sleep-inducing sections in which you have to stay inside a mage's magic bubble while not being able to do anything other than walk. - Utterly moronic conclusion to the story. *Conclusion* TW1&2 have the same strengths and weaknesses. The gameplay elements are bad, the other stuff is decent and should have been the focus. Without the bad combat, dreadful navigation and related nonsense (inventory/trading/crafting) these could've been passable games. Or they could've just added fast travel and made combat even just interesting-adjacent (not bloody likely).

I've bought it for just 2 euros+- and at this price it's a steal. Graphics hold well, even today. Gameplay is a bit clunky, but it's absolutely playable. Huge improvement over a witcher 1. Story is interesting, poking at deeper questions. Great continuation of the Witcher story. You can even import saves from previous game with all of your decisions!

I spent my first 2 hours playing the witcher 2 yesterday evening. I must admit I was amazed by how good the game looks. The world really looks "alive"The story seems really promising, not to mention how nice it is, for someone who's read Sapkowsky's books, to find references, characters and events depicted in the books. So far, a wonderful job CD Projekt RED. Keep up the good work! :-)

When you get a high expectation of a game it is difficult to be impressed when you finally play the game. Well this game bowled me away. From the graphics, voice acting, sound effects and the story I am still in awe. All the best elements of my favourite RPG's were used from Mass Effect to Assassins Creed. Making it the best combination ever. Still Playing the game but enjoying every moment of it.

Very very happy with this game so far - well worth waiting for. Graphics / performance is very good on my system after using latest Nvidia Beta drivers and I love the option to use a gamepad which matches some of the very dynamic combat very well. Combat feels fast, visceral and challenging with combination of attacks, blocks, dodges and use of spells giving a far greater level of satisfaction than some other recent RPGs which follow greatly simplified combat models. Character models and gameworld design is excellent and I am very happy that Geralt still has very similar features to Witcher 1 (some early screenshots made him look a bit brutish) Voice acting and music is excellent and there is more story content in the initial tutorial levels than in some complete games ! The GOG Bonus content and DRM free model add further value I sat up way too late last night playing this - and this is an incomplete review for a game which will take many days to complete - but I wanted to at least say how delighted I am with this. Once again - a little team in Poland shows the world how RPGs should be done !