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Witcher 2 Now Free On Xbox 360

Free game offer goes live one day early; pick up your copy now.

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CD Projekt Red's 2011 role-playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is now available as a free download for Xbox 360 users with an Xbox Live Gold subscription. The game isn't supposed to be available for free until tomorrow, January 16, but the deal appears to have gone live early.

The Witcher 2--which normally sells for $30--is free on Xbox 360 through the end of the month as part of Microsoft's "Games With Gold" promotion, which gives subscribers free games every month. It replaces MX vs. ATV Alive, which was free January 1-15.

Meanwhile, Xbox One owners with an Xbox Live Gold subscription can pick up D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die for free all month long.

Microsoft has not yet announced February's Games With Gold titles, but we'll have those for you as soon as they are revealed. Looking for even more ways to save on Xbox games? Check out the full list of games on sale this week on Xbox Live.

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Couldn't download it earlier due to errors, and now it's nowhere to be found...

What gives?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Its up finally. Down loading it now!

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Can't find it in the marketplace?

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Can't download this game from Xbox live? What gives? I tried online, and then with my console... but nothing. I keep getting a stupid error code.


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What is this PC game doing on a console!! D:<

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Got Witcher 1 & 2 for $4.99 on steam. Love those Holiday sale prices!

Great games, so excited for the 3rd!

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Downloading now can't wait to come home and try this out this afternoon.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> you're gonna have a great time :)

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Man I'm sad!!!! Why can't someone like Naughty Dog or a talented studio do a port of the Witcher 2 on PS3?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That's not how it works ...

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Naughty Dog have a lot of resources and funds from Sony unlike other studios depend on the game profit only

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Yep...it disappeared :(

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Except according to any search on the Marketplace this game does not exist.

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That's what I'm getting too...even though I tried to download it yesterday when it said it was free. Hope they fix the problems

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One of the best RPGs ever!

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One of the top games of last generation! Also, boobs!

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I didn't see as many as I had hoped for. Maybe I wasn't playing the game correctly. I still liked 1 more for the missions and battle mechanics.

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This game is easily worth a pretty high price, on the PC it blows away most other newer games even to this day.

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Awesome as usual.

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Well, breaking from just about everyone else on the planet, I thought the game was so-so. There are some bad difficulty spikes, some long sequences where you're not allowed to save, and a few cases of Sudden Quest Death where quest A suddenly makes quest B unsolvable. Still, the graphics are great and the story is pretty good.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> "a few cases of Sudden Quest Death where quest A suddenly makes quest B unsolvable."


It's a story driven linear RPG. You are not the center of the world.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It did have some problems but I think the point is the highs of the game are so very very high that those design oversights never took away from the overall experience. I'd have given the game a definite 9 for sure, but there's almost always room for improvement. Still, this game blows other modern RPG's away in terms of player choice, a divergent storyline that requires 2 playthroughs, interesting characters and world, and one of the best protagonists ever! It did well in the gameplay department as well imo, besides the few kinds of issues you mentioned (and a step back in the inventory management from TW1, grid based system is much better and is returning for 3!).

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game has bewbs also fun

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I like the look of witcher 3 but i'm concerned i won't have a clue whats going on!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> They explained TW1 in TW2 with a video/cutscene. Its available online too. I would expect TW2 to be explained in TW3 but TW2 is well worth playing. Its a proper RPG. PS, TW1TW2TW3RPGWTFACRONYM

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<< LINK REMOVED >> From what I've seen and heard, all three games seem to be self-contained stories. In other words, they do take place in chronological order, but you don't need to play the previous ones to understand the story.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> still nice to know the history/lore etc

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> If that's what you want to know, you're better off reading the books.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Me too, but for those who don't care about that, they have nothing to worry about.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> A lot of new people are going to be:


Where did Witchers came from? How did they become what they are?

Who is Triss and why is she Geralt's friend?

What is Temeria, Redanie, Keadween? Who was Foltest, who is Radovid, who is Emyr, who is Saskia.

Who/what is the Wild Hunt?

Why is Geralt interested in the Wild Hunt?

Who is Yennifer? Can I bang her?

Why can't I do a full mage build and ignore sword play?

Conjunction of the Spheres? What's that ?


Sure man, nothing to worry about for new players. There was a lot of stuff in Witcher 2 that made no sens or you knew jack about if you didn't play W1.


Foltest 1st assassin.

Fistech?

Radovid's wife?

Vizima?

Salamandra?

Order of the Flaming Rose?

Who is this Wild Hunt that Geralts keeps mentioning about?


Or basically the whole plot of W3 which started in W1: Ithlinne's Prophecy.

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One of the very few times the GWG promo hits a home run. Witcher 2 is a fantastic game

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Witcher 2 is a great game. Congrats.

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Very nice! Already got it on PC but those who don't should grab it...like right now.

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Eddie, the Xbox One GwG title was announced last year - #IDARB.

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I meant February's GwG offering for the One was already announced by Major Nelson.

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Where what is it?

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One of the best games ever made.


It's worth every penny of those 30 dollars.

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got it free on GOG a couple months ago

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Same here!

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