The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

Even in its original edition The Witcher was a sensation of the RPG world in 2007. As opposed to Neverwinter Nights 2, you control only one character here, a professional monster-hunter Geralt who has lost his memory, but the game offers a sophisticated plot, rich dialogues and true-to-life situations. The Witcher lacks any moralizing and the typical division into good and evil sides you find in most other fantasy RPGs. There is a lot of good humor in the game, too.

The original game had rather simple character animations and similar-looking NPCs and monsters but the new edition corrects this issue by adding new textures and gestures.

The interface has improved somewhat, too. The camera now behaves more intellectually – the game has a third person view, so the camera’s behavior is important especially as the combat system of The Witcher is very dynamic and needs a constant control on the gamer’s part. Two new game modules are an additional bonus to the new edition. Their plot is far not as exciting as the main game’s plot, though.

The updated Witcher runs on the same Aurora Engine as the original and has no visual differences other than what have been described above. The Enhanced Edition is available for the owners of the original as a free, even though heavy, update (about 1.3GB). The game is highly popular among all RPG lovers, so we are going to see how smoothly it runs on modern graphics cards.