CD Projekt Red developed Witcher 2 in 2011 on PC, it was released a year later in 2012 on consoles. It's a sequel to The Witcher released back in 2007 on PC.
Story revolves around Geralt, a Witcher who is trained to slay monsters. Geralt is accused of killing King Foltest, and is imprisoned. Geralt is suffering from amnesia, but he remembers witnessing the king's assassination while being interrogated. This leads to Geralt trying to track down the real killer, there are three split paths leaving some replayability. I also didn't appreciate the random events where you were made to play as random characters during the story, especially when you were first introduced to the character was when you controlled them and you're wondering "who is this guy?"
You get the impression it's open world, but it's very linear, I felt that was the wrong approach, but you do get free reign to do some roaming. This is a difficult game, if you're a button masher, you're gonna have to adapt. The combat is intense, one hit will do a lot of damage to you. It's all about swing, block, swing, roll. You can't keep swinging, you gotta pay attention to your enemies or you'll get a quick death. Geralt is armed with two swords, one for human enemies, and one for monsters. You can use each sword on the opposite enemy, but they do very limited damage in comparison to the true weapon.
The world of Witcher is wonderful. The medieval setting and incredibly British accents were perfect. The eccentric characters, the unique monsters and of course, the brilliant dwarfs you are easily the most entertaining. There's side quests, but honestly I didn't enjoy any of them, I was just paying attention when it came to the story missions. There's a skill tree for you to explore, there's signs which act as spells for you to cast, and a good inventory system allowing you to equip clothing and weapons that suit you. A good loot system easily allowing you to pick up useful items and simply sort it within the menus.
I found it so overwhelming and quite complex. So much is thrown at you and you're never really given a proper tutorial or time to digest all the features. It's more of just learning as you go along. There's an overcomplicated menu that's filled with different sections, some I just never looked at. For 2012 I thought the graphics were amazing, I remember being in awe looking at the detail of the characters and scenery. The voice acting is really good, it stands out in the background characters how well they're voiced.
There's side activities like fight club, which is far too easy as it's just quick time events, rolling dice which isn't that interesting and you're never really given the rules, and there's arm wrestling which is one of the worst activities I've seen in a game, it's all to to with balancing the cursor, but it's so unbalanced as your cursor is correctly placed it takes an overly long time to start moving in your favour. There's bartering and crafting too, you can also equipped bombs and destroy monster nests.
I'm not sure what to say about Witcher 2, I know it's a good game, but honestly, I wouldn't want to play through it again. I found it too complicated and the story was confusing at times, the side activities weren't interesting enough, but the characters, graphics and voice acting were all really good. I'm excited to play Witcher 3 after all the good things I've heard, but I can't see myself going back to two.
7.7/10
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