The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system.
Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and...
The Witcher is a role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world where moral ambiguity reigns. Shattering the line between good and evil, the game emphasizes story and character development, while incorporating a tactically-deep, real-time combat system.
Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, and get caught in a web of intrigue woven by forces vying for control of the world. Make difficult decisions and live with the consequences in a game that will immerse you in an extraordinary tale like no other.
KEY FEATURES
GERALT OF RIVIA: A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTAGONIST
Take on the role of Geralt of Rivia: a charismatic swordmaster and professional monster slayer.
Choose from over 250 special abilities, combat skills and magical powers to build a character best suited to your style of play.
ORIGINAL FANTASY WORLD DRAWN FROM LITERATURE
Enter a harsh fantasy world inspired by the writings of renowned Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, where nothing is truly black or white, right or wrong.
NON-LINEAR STORYLINE
Immerse yourself in an epic narrative full of turns, twists and ambiguous moral decisions which have real impact on the storyline.
Accomplish quests in a variety of ways and see how the narrative culminates in one of three different endings depending on your actions.
STUNNING TACTICAL ACTION
Engage in elaborate, yet intuitive real-time combat based on real medieval sword-fighting techniques.
Battle using six combat styles, dozens of potions, complex alchemy system, modifiable weapons and powerful magic which all add tactical depth to the fluid real-time experience.
Motion capture performed by medieval fighting experts at Frankfurt's renowned Metric Minds studio, resulting in 600 spectacular and authentic in-game combat animations.
ABOUT THE WITCHER: ENHANCED EDITION
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition takes all of the acclaimed gameplay that garnered the original game more than 90 industry awards and introduces a number of gameplay and technical improvements.
Superior dialogue and cutscenes: Over 5000 rewritten and re-recorded lines of dialogue in English, completely redone German language version, as well as over 200 new gesture animations create a more consistent experience and make characters behave more believably in dialogue and cutscenes.
Enhanced inventory: A separate sack for alchemy ingredients, as well as a simple sort-and-stack function streamline item organization and usage.
Technical improvements: Numerous technical enhancements feature greatly reduced loading times, improved stability, combat responsiveness, faster inventory loading, an option to turn auto-saving on or off, and more.
Character differentiation system: The system randomizes the appearance of dozens of in-game models in order to add more variety to monsters and NPCs.
The Witcher Enhanced Edition comes with these bonus items:
manual
artbook
wallpapers
game guide
maps
The Witcher calendar
The Witcher story
music inspired by The Witcher (MP3)
soundtrack (MP3)
avatars
behind the scenes
creator interviews (Atari)
creator interviews (CD Projekt RED)
music video
music inspired by The Witcher (FLAC)
soundtrack (FLAC)
manual (German)
game guide (German)
manual (Russian)
manual (Italian)
manual (Polish)
game guide (Italian)
game guide (Polish)
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What improvements we made to this game:
Windows Version Update (13 November 2024)
Added DirectX to dependencies, ensuring proper compatibility with required libraries
Set core affinity to the first 2 CPU cores, improving performance on modern systems
Validated stability
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Update 1.5 (A) (22 March 2017)
Added support for Cloud Saves in GOG Galaxy 1.2 and newer
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