Ведьмак 2: Убийцы королей

If you don't know how good The Witcher series is by now, I'd advise you to crawl back into whatever cave you've been living in the last 20 or so years. While the first game was a PC only release and despite the fine graphics and voicework for its time, the first game lacked a compelling combat system so the games really didn't hit their stride until the second title made the right adjustments and polished up everything into the mirror sheen of a AAA Masterpiece despite its inception from a then fledgeling CDProjectRed. And while the 2nd outing lacks the impressive Rockstar or Bethesda standard open world of the 3rd game, this title has level and world design more reminiscent of Dark Souls in which you are free to move about in large open ended sandboxes you are usually confined to one place while you play out the events chapter to chapter. It works well in part to the narrative design of the game and heavy story beats. While Dark Souls is entirely driven by environmental storytelling and inventory text splashes, The Witcher, being based on a best selling Polish book series, is obviously character driven and full of tales of swords, sorcery and political intrigue. Of course, it would be recommended to pkay through the first game for the throughline of the story as you'll meet manyfaces throughout the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, titles, but it is entirely possible to enjoy the narrative of each on their own merits without having played the previous ones. I recommend any fan of modern RPG's, especially western ones, give each game in the Witcher series a fair shake, but thanks to the relatively low system demands of the first and second titles, and the fact that GoG probably has them on sale for less than a bad cup of franchised coffee, recommending these games becomes a no brainer... Even when your pockets hang heavy with the weight of Drowner brains and not orens. ;)

Отличный сиквел и продолжение серии. Сюжет на высоте, твой выбор реально влияет на дальнейшую игру - вплоть до совершенно разных квестов, персонажей и локаций. Нелинейность сильная сторона игры. А вот зельеварение, медитация и прокачка, на мой взгляд, хуже чем в первой части. Может это чисто моё впечатление, но вот так.

Play this game with a few aesthetic and gameplay mods and you're good to go! I played it as a couch game and enjoyed it thoroughly!

I'm tired of Bethesda's *RPGs*, like Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Starfield". Dark Souls was way better and definitely my favorite. However, I wouldn't call it an "RPG". But ZIS GAME, Witcher 2, is what I definitely call, in essence, a true RPG, like if you were playing a cards game, but with the fun of videogames instead of the boredom of "turns" like Baldur's Gate. Witcher 2 resembles me like AC 3 too, for all the "vibe", and the amount of movies and cutscenes, which give a good af atmosphere. Also, I like very much the "53xy" cuts without the entire game being a big p0rm, differently than other games that have "53xy" cutscenes, but end up being more p0rm than anything. Don't focus too much on it tho. Definitely worth the price, even though I'm unemployed with a potato pc with integrated graphics (Lenovo B490). I'm kinda sad that the physical combat is too alike, given that the entire game is centered around battles and you only have, like, two moves. They could've made, at least, a different move per sword, and not just a timing and "design" difference. Imagine Dark Souls 1, but with only one kind of sword. I'm not too deep on the game tho. Also, very neat the interactive cutscenes. It remembers me of the classic God of War.

quite simply the best game I have ever played. Thank you cd project for giving us this game.