If you're considering playing this game, you probably already know all the pros and cons. There are die-hard fans like myself who will tell you that the game is absolutely worth playing. Even though the controls and graphics are a bit outdated, the game offers an unique atmosphere and experience, that not even the following titles can reproduce. The game is based on The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski and although it continues the story of geralt after the books took place and it is not the official story by Sapkowski you can see that the developers did everyting to honor the books from the most obvious references to the most subtle ones. And more importantly they managed to give you the taste of the slavic lore and culture that goes hand to hand with the witcher. The atmosphere is very dark and suspensful and you can feel it! There is always some mystery, something wrong hanging in the air and the game does an excelent job expressing it. It's not just the monsters, dead bodies, laments of the ill, howling of the dogs and the music that makes the atmosphere come together. Even a "weakness" like not having an open world or a quest design that (in some cases) doesn't tell you exactly what to do, contributes to making the game more immersive. (tl;dr) This game is a great entry point into the witcher universe whether you read the books or not. Forget what fan boys like me say about it in the reviews and play it if you think YOU will like it, play it without high hopes and expectations as long as you enjoy it. I stand by my praise, but I myself took a blind leap of faith, without knowing what to expect whatsoever and it became my favorite story of all time.
