The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

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Added 8/18/2024 23:45:20
Modified 8/21/2024 16:16:49
Completion Status Not Played
Library Gog
Source GOG
Platform PC (Windows)
Release Date 9/16/2008
Community Score 80
Critic Score 86
User Score
Genre Adventure
Role-playing (RPG)
Developer CD Projekt RED
Publisher Atari, Inc.
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Feature Single Player
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Description

The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system. 

Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and get caught in a web of intrigue woven by forces vying for control of the world. Make difficult decisions and live with the consequences in a game that will immerse you in an extraordinary tale like no other. 

KEY FEATURES


GERALT OF RIVIA: A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTAGONIST  

  • Take on the role of Geralt of Rivia: a charismatic swordmaster and professional monster slayer.   
  • Choose from over 250 special abilities, combat skills and magical powers to build a character best suited to your style of play.

 
ORIGINAL FANTASY WORLD DRAWN FROM LITERATURE  

  • Enter a harsh fantasy world inspired by the writings of renowned Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, where nothing is truly black or white, right or wrong.


NON-LINEAR STORYLINE  

  • Immerse yourself in an epic narrative full of turns, twists and ambiguous moral decisions which have real impact on the storyline.  
  • Accomplish quests in a variety of ways and see how the narrative culminates in one of three different endings depending on your actions.


STUNNING TACTICAL ACTION  

  • Engage in elaborate, yet intuitive real-time combat based on real medieval sword-fighting techniques.  
  • Battle using six combat styles, dozens of potions, complex alchemy system, modifiable weapons and powerful magic which all add tactical depth to the fluid real-time experience.   
  • Motion capture performed by medieval fighting experts at Frankfurt's renowned Metric Minds studio, resulting in 600 spectacular and authentic in-game combat animations.

ABOUT THE WITCHER: ENHANCED EDITION

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition takes all of the acclaimed gameplay that garnered the original game more than 90 industry awards and introduces a number of gameplay and technical improvements. 
 

  • Superior dialogue and cutscenes: Over 5000 rewritten and re-recorded lines of dialogue in English, completely redone German language version, as well as over 200 new gesture animations create a more consistent experience and make characters behave more believably in dialogue and cutscenes.   
  • Enhanced inventory: A separate sack for alchemy ingredients, as well as a simple sort-and-stack function streamline item organization and usage.  
  • Technical improvements: Numerous technical enhancements feature greatly reduced loading times, improved stability, combat responsiveness, faster inventory loading, an option to turn auto-saving on or off, and more.   
  • Character differentiation system: The system randomizes the appearance of dozens of in-game models in order to add more variety to monsters and NPCs.


The Witcher Enhanced Edition comes with these bonus items:   

  • An interactive comic book  
  • D'jinni Adventure Editor  
  • Two new adventures offering 5 hours of gameplay  
  • Official Soundtrack  
  • “Music Inspired by The Witcher” album  
  • “Making of” videos  
  • Official Game Guide  
  • Two maps of The Witcher's world