I paid around 5 euros for it and managed to play it for only 7 hours, but it was fun enough for that time, so it's still worth it. I couldn't make myself play more, not even to finish the story. The world is beautiful, combat is quite fun and satisfing and the caracters are interesting. The one thing that I disliked to the point where I gave up on the game was the repitivity. All games are repetitive to some extent, but this one was too much for me. Basically, if you've been in 3 camps you've seen all of them. Almost copy - paste. Go to camp, beat up everything, search for the 5-10 pieces of scrap and insignas, destroy main oil thingy, good job, go next. Again and again. Car combat? Fun at times, frustrating at times, and the exact same thing again and again. Go faster than the other car, crash harder in the other car, big boom, collect scrap. Story was okay and intrigued me a littel bit at the beginning, but later on I just stopped caring that much. It just feels like a very stripped down ubisoft game in terms of objectives, with a cool but repetitive fighting system taken from the Batman games and a more intriguing but (rightfully, based on the story) barren and empty wasteland. It's a good game for someone who wants to keep busy while doing something else. And if you get it on sale, it might be worth. But for someone looking for something more, it might get boring very quickly.
I bought this a long time ago after hearing so many good things about it, and I've been playing it on an off for about 3 years before actually finishing it. This isn't because the game is bad, but because while I am away for work, I only have a laptop with me, and older games are much easier to run than anything new, so I mainly play such games when I'm away from my main PC. How's this game? As the title says, slow at times, tedious here and there, but that's to be expected from an old game. Exploration is fun, but not as rewarding as I'd like it to be, and the enemies get quite easy to kill after you level up enough. Before that, however, everything's a challenge, which I consider to be a good thing, since I constantly had to use potions or buffs to kill anything that was a few levels above my characters. The story is good, the characters are interesting and the world itself is intriguing. I see some bad comments about this edition of the game, with some people saying that you would be better off playing the original version of the game, but I don't really know about that. For someone who never played this before, I think the EE is good enough. Besides, if the original version has any problem at all with new systems, I doubt anyone's gonna spend time trying to fix anything for a game that at first sight doesn't look that interesting. Overall, this is a great game. Yes, there are gonna be things here and there that won't be that good, such as mechanics and graphics, but that's to be expected for such an old game. However, if you're willing to look past those things and give this game a proper chance, I believe that once you finish it, alongside the DLC, it will stay with you for quite and while.
I'm writing this late at night so I'm sorry for any mistakes I make. I paid 7 euros for this game, more or less, and after almost 50 hours, I finally finished it, with the true ending. What a surprising game. I knew a little about it, but I didn't expect to enjoy it that much. The combat has weight, so it feels great. There is enough variety in weapons and relics to make it fun, and the curses add an extra layer of difficulty. Overall, very fun game. It kept me entertained every night for almost a month, for a few hours after coming home from work. In conclusion, a surprisingly fun game, with really cool mechanics, that gives you a bigger and bigger feeling of satisfaction as you realize you're getting better and better at it. I totally recommend it, even at full price.
I got this game for around 6 euros, at a discount a month ago. It was absolutely worth it. I already played the first game on Steam and loved it, and decided to try this one. I finished the game in 17 hours on low chaos (finished it once, before, with Emily, just not here), trying to avoid killing. The graphics are good, the characters are likable, there's quite a lot of replayability considering that you have two characters and you can finish the game on either lor or high chaos with each. You also have New Game + so that's a plus. I'm not really sure what's with all the hate for this game. It's more than decent. Sure, it might not be as good as the first one, but I still think it has enough good to overshadow the bad. Story is fine, the levels are okay and there's quite a lot to do in them. It took me 17 hours to finish the first playthrough because I actually went out of my way and tried to collect everything, open every safe and so on. Overall, great game. I'm not sure if it would be worth it at full price, but at a discount, it's a good deal.
Initially, I thought about writing a review the size of an entire f-ing article, considering the controvery about this game, but I'll keep it as short as I can. Yes, the game has technical flaws. I won't mention them. No need. You can find enough about that everywhere. On my PC (ryze 7 1700 / 16 GB ram / gtx 1080) I encountered few bugs. What disappointed me the most, was the content that was "missing". It's what made me dislike the game. More than 80% of the doors in the city are closed. NPCs are empty. Customization is non existent. And I didn't feel like the world was as alive as in The Witcher 3. I'm not even gonna compare it to something like RDR2, because it's nowhere close to that. But tonight I finished the game, and I can only say this - despite the bad, I f*cking loved it. 120 hours, on the hardest difficulty, and I had a blast. I can't say it's better than TW3 or that it's even at the same level. TW3 is still my favorite game ever made so far. But, despite all the flaws this game has, I would be a hypocrite to say that it's a bad game. I had 120 of fun, with slight dissapointments because of the missing content. And the ending.. It left me empty. That chello is still playing in my head. I didn't feel like this since TW3. I know there are like 4 endings in total, and that, combined with different playstyles, adds enough replay value for me. So, as much hate as this game gets, it is, in my opinion, still a really good game. It has technical issues sometimes. And there's a lot missing from it. But what's in it, is still good. If you expect this to be the greatest game ever made - it isn't. Wait a year or two. Maybe it will be by then. But right now, it's just a good game, with an incredible story, and unbelievably realistic characters that you'll fall in love with. I hope to see CDPR stick with the game, and improve it, and bring it to the level everyone expected it to be, because this game deserves a lot more love. It can be so much more.
