The Witcher 2 reviews start hitting, get rounded up

Some poor optimization and autoaim fail
Other than that, this is GOTY material all over the place

It’s the best game i’ve ever played PERIOD. Great story, great sound, stunnig graphics (cryengine 3 an its Crysis 2 is a baby besides REDENGINE), great gameplay, great level of design and custumization (never seen a world so beautiful made)…..and it has something that few games have : diversity….

folks..the collectors is awesome! but still cant play it…it will activatable on midnight

First one was really good.

@3 Is that from a retail then? Because if so I’ve got to go give their twitter feed some shit.

Wish i could spend my money on a new graphic card so i could play this game, as it is now, i can’t waste my money on that.

@1: Guess they’ll fix the poor optimization, as they did with Witcher 1.

Witcher 2 has poor game choices, when you pick the wrong one you die and the game loads the same scene…

I wonder how does it look on medium gfx settings coz my PC is no beast….btw something that happens a lot nowadays,but still sadness me…or does it make me laugh….http://www.thegx.co/news/1270/bioware-employee-reviews-the-witcher-2/

#7 Surely you mean that you made some poor choices while playing the game!?

@8: I wouldn’t risk it. Buddy of mine bought it and it … doesn’t work properly, he has a Radeon HD4XXX-Something and the only thing you see are his eyes and everything else is just a mish-mash of colours. So it doesn’t work properly.

Why isn’t VG247 reviewing games?

I’m playing it right now and holy damn… this game is fantastic.

I love it. The only thing that pisses me off is that dead bodies disappear after 10 seconds. I mean really… 10 freakin seconds.

Game is gorgeous. Can’t talk about the story because i’m only two hours in it.

@DarkElfa, because it is strictly a news site and it should be that way.

@11 It’s a news site.

to sum everything: Witcher 2 is UNCHARTED 2 of RPG games

and as a PC player i’m so happy with this. Every UI and interface is PC only.

everything on max. I will make few screenshots soon just for fun.

@11 Because they write news, not reviews. They do the occasional article, but VG247 is more an industry blog than a games blog. They want to follow what’s happening rather than saying how good the end product is. I think that’s the reason I like the place so much, outside of a few cases their opinion doesn’t get in the way, it’s just the news.

http://imageshack.us/f/32/witcher2201105172206573.jpg/

Crazy My screenshot.

I’m proud of you.

phew that is beautiful screenshot

PC spec?

If it weren’t for the awful combat system, I’d consider buying it.

@16 – Nice!

@19: How can you say it has an awful combat System? Did you play it?

@19

you’re joking … right ?!!!

@19, Stop worshipping playstation Only. Just play.

I am playing it right now. Combat system is great. Especially if you use Spells it’s bloody good.

SCREENSHOTS for VG247 exclusively :

http://imageshack.us/f/402/witcher2201105172205218.jpg/ – fire effects, Geralt details

http://imageshack.us/f/836/witcher2201105172303298.jpg/ – details

http://imageshack.us/f/190/witcher2201105172305077.jpg/ – Combat effects

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/3/witcher2201105172309111.jpg/ – Loading screen

http://imageshack.us/f/219/witcher2201105172309412.jpg/ – I kick some ASS

enjoy dear gamers.

@19

Is the combat system awful because you actually have to think before you start a fight, and then think during the fight instead of just button mashing?

The combat system takes a little to get use too, but when you have to combine weapons, spells and items to defeat groups of creature, thats all good in my book.

My new PC’s been built and it’s in testing now. Hopefully I’ll get it next week. I’ll give this a shot, I reckon.

#10 Thanks for the advice,especially coz my gfx card is actually Radeon HD 4XXX Something ….

@26: Good to know i could be helpful. He also could only play it on the lowest settings. Didn’t help.

@24, No, I consider it awful because I just don’t like it, feels terribly outdated & clunky in comparison to every other action game-this is just my opinion, don’t bother arguing with me, we all have different tastes.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that nearly every other aspect is great, just one small frustration can have a large impact on the overall experiance.

@28: So your opinion is simply “I don’t like it.” Instead of “This is why i don’t like it:”

Really helps taking you serious.

I think #19 is probably talking about the combat from the original, which kinda sucked hard.

Those screenies are nice erth, but I wouldn’t call them Crysis or Uncharted 2 from them.

Wow… Read the next 5 words, it’s not that hard. Some things don’t need a deeper meaning but at least I did elaborate a little bit.

@31: That’s more than 5 words.

OMGz, REALLY!?!?!?! O_O
…*sigh*

Just a quick question for anyone out there: Just got a new Sandybridge mobo and an I5-2500K. Which new videocard should I get to run Witcher 2 at mid or max settings? Also, is this game DirectX 11 or 9? Thanks

@Hunam, it’s actually beautiful.

I’m making screenshots from FRAPS and we all know that with “fraps” program you won’t get the maximum juice out of the screenshots.

Trust me. It’s really beautiful and gorgeous. This game have more grass then PS3 will ever handle in it’s 10 year life cycle. Believe me

Entirely depends on your budget.

Playing on Ultra settings, game looks great and I’m enjoying it a lot so far.

@23 My GAWD the UPS man CANNOT get here soon enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@37: Make some screenshots.

This is seriously one bad ass motherf***ing game! Not only is it graphically superb, the gameplay is sublime and it’s also a real challenge. This game will really punish you for making an error in combat, but even so “wow!” does it make you want to go back again and again to progress further into the game. It could definitely do with some more patching to optimize it a bit better, but other than that it is the best PC game I have played in a few years now.

@40: Wait, you mean backtracking?

I just meant that I died alot and I had to go back to my save point. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

@42: Puh, good to know, the first one had quite alot of those and this is one of the reasons why i stopped playing it.

For me the optimization is good, I can play the game with 4 yo parts. Intel Core Duo 1.86Ghz, 2GB Ram and GeForce 8600GT. And even not everything is set on low and have pretty stable framerate. Also some of the story are given with absurd comic book like style and they botched the funniest minigame Dice Poker. As for the game is pretty good, but not the second coming of Jesus. Also the game really look beautiful if you can run it properly, I think it is the new benchmark for PC gaming.

Damn you, Erthazus and your damn screenshots! *shakes fist at screen*

Playing through the first one with a 256mb 9400GT on medium settings is cumbersome enough; this would probably just give me a “Are you fucking serious?” screen on installation.

I bet it’ll be this vs Portal 2 vs Battlefield 3 vs Skyrim vs GuildWars2 for all the PC accolades at the end of the year. /CaptainObvious

GUYS I found Hillarious EASTER EGG and probably the BEST ONE in years.

http://imageshack.us/f/163/witcher2201105180049178.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/839/witcher2201105180049326.jpg/

when you come to this place Geralt says: They never learn…

ahahahaahahah ! *LAUGHING MY ASS OFF* So? Who figured it out? Who is it?

I won’t give hints

@46

ROFL hahaha Took not even a second to figure that one out.

#44 I have a slightly better PC (Core Duo 2,7 Ghz 3 GB RAM,Radeon 4670 512 MB DDR3)on which resolution are you playing it?

How i wish my laptop would play this, i’m gonna give a demo (if it comes) a shot, but it probably will run like crap. Even on low.

@46: Yeah, you’re a few hours too late. Kotaku already posted a video of it. Geralt actually says “They never learn” when you go near the body.