Review of The Witcher

This is an impressive fully featured classic style RPG with a unique atmosphere that actually makes you contemplate the choices you are making. This first version is a bit sanitized when compared to the European version but the developers provided a patch that improved the voice work and added more adult content.

The graphics are quite pretty - the world has tons of tiny details that are very immersing and the character models look (at least in regards to the major characters) amazing and detailed.

The big draw here, however, is the story and writing. This game is massive. The amount of spoken dialogue here is immense and all of it is written quite well. It does get a bit hard to keep track of quests, plot information and locations because the in-game menus need a bit of design overhaul. All that information is there and frequently updated as you play through the game but as your tomes of information grow its hard to find the specific glossary entry that will help you complete some of the quests.

Still, they've made an impressive, engrossing, unique RPG world here - one that is easy to get lost in for dozens of hours. Highly recommended.