The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Based on the novels by a popular Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is an action-oriented, epic fantasy RPG that takes players on a journey through a world which in many ways mirrors our own. Take on…
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is an adventure developed by CD Projekt RED, released 16 September 2008 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 24.6 hrs to finish.
What The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2008. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Aurora Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Following the events of The Witcher novels, Geralt of Rivia, a professional monster slayer, finds himself at the foot of the mythical witcher stronghold chased by a mysterious force. Exhausted and suffering from retrograde amnesia, he is nursed back to health by his fellow witchers and a familiar sorceress. However, before he could put the pieces of his former life back together, the fortress is attacked by bandits led by a mysterious mage who succeed in stealing the carefully guarded secrets of the witcher order while dealing a deadly blow to one of its members. The remaining witchers embark on a search for their stolen property and a quest for revenge, spreading out to the four corners of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Witcher series
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is the fourth of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut in 2008. Its critic score of 86 is 4 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.
How it was received
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 263 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 72.1 hrs, roughly 2.9 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +3000 recommended). Athlon XP series, such as the Athlon XP +2400, is not supported, 1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM recommended) and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 XT or better recommended). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB.
What it launched against
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition launched on 16 September 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Rock Band 2, Pokémon Platinum Version and Spore. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Rock Band 2, Pokémon Platinum Version, Spore.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Witcher: Enhanced Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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