Ведьмак 2: Убийцы королей

I'm not going to downgrade my rating due to not enjoying the game, bc it's really just a product of its time. My biggest critique is the combat just isn't that good, even with the full combat rebalance. It doesn't feel too staisfying and can be a hassle to pull off; even for its time. The other issues are due to age. The voice acting is still top notch and the enviorments are pretty. My dislike is mostly due to the lack of flow that modern games have to their UI and systems. But that's a personal preference really, if you don't mind some early last gen PC RPG mechanics, then you're in for a great game.

"The year is 2012. Rumours abound of the end of the world. 'Games journalism' is a 'real' profession. Mass Effect 3 has shown that even BioWare can really drop the ball with endings, when most of the fans just wanted a slideshow presentation. In this contentious era, one game will prove that it's as good as the rest of them." The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings reveals CD Projekt Red's design priorities after their first attempt at making a game, seen in the work put into this game's art design. True, it is the *video*game industry, and such an effort deserves praise, but the problems begin when The Witcher 2 wants to identify itself as a role-playing video*game*, which it barely manages, and only because the public, at large, thinks so. Instead of the vast and clunky dialogue options, we get Joss Whedon quips and RNG Force charm options. The combat is changed from the novel wait-and-click setup to one where getting back-stabbed is a constant worry. The fistfights and the bossfights use quick-time events, excising the real-time control during fistfights and the preparations for hunting monsters as was necessary previously. This might suggest that they were trying to bring the game up to par with other games produced in the West, despite not having nearly as many resources. They did an excellent job with Flotsam. But the story needs Geralt to regain his memories. Of all the choices that the game has, the player's choice to follow Geralt is one never spoken of. If the player reads the books from which Geralt came from, the player will enjoy a game with a shaky grasp of role-playing mechanics. If the player finds them no different from the edgy takes on the fantasy genre, as was the case with me, they will just push through, hoping that the third game in the franchise is a little better. I came away from the game liking the presentation, but, since CD Projekt Red have their own engine, I realised now why this game no longer can be called an RPG, unlike the last one.

Can't launch the game just because errors in two scipts,i had to fix this myself,it's quite disappointed.

The first Witcher game with a good Gamepad controlling. The german dialogs have a high quality of cinematic movies. But again, when you come from the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt first also The Witcher 2 is maybe not the right game for you. Some gameplay mechanics like the fighting style, item management etc. are very different so that it seems only The Wichter 3 is the final version of perfect gameplay. I would love it more to play when it don't crash so much. You have to save much, cause there are too many situations were you play, bing... game closed and back on desktop.... very unstable. I play with windows 10. The Wichter 3 I can play as long as I want and my graficcard is stil quiet, but with The Witcher 2 my graficcard starts to get very loud. Thats why I stay on Witcher 3 and I hope for the Future on games like Wichter 4 or Thronebreaker 2 maybe.

1/5 combat 4/5 everything else Get the FCR2 mod or dont bother. Vanilla game is just awful gameplaywise.