The Witcher

Fails to meet expectations

User Rating: 5 | The Witcher: Enhanced Edition PC

By bummed-out | Review Date: December 7, 2008

I played the original version of The Witcher and suffered through countless crashes and glitches. I lived with one finger on the quicksave key. I dealt with robotic voice acting and terrible inventory management and repetitive quests.

The Enhanced Edition fails hard to fix what was wrong with the first game in almost respect except for voice-acting. And even that has it's drawbacks as some characters who were spot-on in the original version received terrible makeovers. The devs lauded themselves on creating new "more human" motions for the characters during speech. I didn't notice much of a difference, it was still robotic and unnatural but at least the dialogue was a little easier to follow.

My biggest issue was that the game STILL crashed far too much. I was reminded of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to be honest and I think I'm done with small European developers for a long time.

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