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The Witcher (PC DVD)
from: Atari

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Atari
EAN: 3546430130087
Label: Atari
Manufacturer: Atari
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Atari
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Studio: Atari
Sales Rank: 1052

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Impressive, but sadly tedious
I really wanted to like The Witcher, but it took a lot of effort. I bought the game in April, and had to pick it up again a few times - only finishing it five months later. The game isn't too demanding on your PC - although it can slow when you have a *lot* on the screen (this really only happens a few times) - but the downside of this is that it looks a lot like Neverwinter Nights 2 (same graphics engine), which is a bit dated today.

Annoyingly, the enormous spells, combat, potions, oils and bombs-based RPG doesn't come with a printed manual - it's on pdf. Cheap old game manufacturers, eh? It kind of spoils the game, and you end up making a lot of notes, but it'd be really nice to have something to refer back to.

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Rating:

- Great RPG
For some reason the beginning really turned me off, but once I got over this I really got into The Witcher. The story is great, and the quest tracker works brilliantly. It also looks great, and should look even better when the new version comes out next month, which by the way is absolutely free if you already own the original. The combat works well, with some extremeley satisfying moves and spells, and you really get your money's worth in terms of gameplay time. The 322mb patch also seems to sort out any stability issues. I'm giving it a five because,so far, I've never enjoyed exploring a fantasy world so much as I have done in The Witcher.

Rating:

- You will miss out if you don't play this!
I would say this is the best RPG I've ever played. I think a key test of any RPG is whether its world feels authentic. I feel I have actually lived in Geralt's world and there is no higher recommendation than that.

It seems to me that the developers have looked at Oblivion, taken aboard comments about its shortcomings and set out to eliminate them in The Witcher. It has many of the features which so endeared Oblivion to its fans: good real-time combat, beautiful and detailed urban areas and countryside, great sound effects and atmosphere, interesting characters and missions, a detailed alchemy system. But on top of this the city feels more lifelike: seemingly small features like children and small animals running about, townsfolk running ... Read More:

Rating:

- Geralt = well aard
As you can see from that awful pun, humour doth flow from me like a river...
Anyway, the witcher.

The first thing that comes to mind for me when playing the witcher was, oddly enough, Oblivion. But not in the way you might think. The Witcher approaches the RPG genre from almost entirely the opposite direction from Bethesda's Classic. Rather than a sprawling, completely open world, we are instead given a handful of enclosed areas to explore through, with invisible walls keeping us on the right path. Instead of a traditional fantasy world of black and white morality and gorgeous scenary, we have a low fantasy setting full of corruption, shades of grey and shadowy, grimy cities (This is the best I've seen the Aurora engine looking) . ... Read More:

Rating:

- My first 3rd person game
First off, I normally hate playing 3rd person games but this one has converted me to that genre. The game is so involved and intricate that it hurts. I totally enjoyed the game.

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