The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition review: a sign of promise

By Arthur Gies on Oct 24, 2012 10.24.12

The Witcher 2's structure most closely resembles the Fable series You'll be forgiven some confusion for the first half hour of The Witcher 2 as it whips from scene to scene in the present and past. Eventually, the premise comes together: a King is dead, the witcher Geralt is blamed, and it's up to you to catch the killer and clear your name. Luckily, witching work, with its emphasis on combat magic, potion use, and general ass-kickery, is well suited to a life on the run in search of a kingslayer. This setup is somewhat misleading, though. In contrast to the numbingly ambitious and often undercooked execution of other eastern European developed action-RPGs, The Witcher 2 instead takes a more comfortable path; in structure, The Witcher 2 most resembles the Fable series, with...