The Witcher

Publisher: Atari

Developer: CD Projekt

Category: Role-Playing

Release Dates

N Amer - 10/30/2007

Intl - 10/30/2007

Digital Download - 10/30/2007

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Description

The Witcher represents the pinnacle of storytelling in role-playing games, shattering the line between good and evil with a world where moral ambiguity reigns. In a beautiful, rich game universe created by artists first, technology second, the player becomes his own hero in an epic, action-packed narrative uniquely defined by his actions. Returning to the roots of the role-playing genre with a fresh and modern approach, The Witcher emphasizes story and character development in a vibrant world, while incorporating tactically-deep real-time combat like no game before it.

Immersed in a vivid but harsh fantasy world, the player assumes the role of a white-haired witcher named Geralt, a renowned monster-slayer-for-hire and master swordsman with superhuman strength and reflexes. While trying to regain his lost memory, Geralt unwillingly becomes involved in a world-shaking power struggle. Created to provide entertainment for both fans of role-playing games and those seeking fast-paced action, The Witcher brings together epic storytelling and dynamic, visually stunning, and tactically deep action.

Features

Geralt of Rivia: a one-of-a-kind protagonist

A charismatic and unique character, Geralt is a mutant swordmaster and professional monster slayer.
Choose from over 250 special abilities correlated to attributes, combat skills and magical powers to build the character in a way best suited to tactical needs and style of play.

Original fantasy world drawn from literature

Inspired by the writings of renowned Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
Featuring adult themes, less fairy-tale than typical fantasy, with mature social issues like racism, political intrigue and genocide.
It is a harsh world where nothing is black or white, right or wrong, often forcing players to choose between the lesser of two evils to advance.

Non-linear and captivating storyline

Full of turns, twists and ambiguous moral decisions which have real impact on the storyline.
All quests can be accomplished in several ways and the game has three different endings depending on the player’s actions and choices throughout the adventure.

Visually stunning tactical action

Engage in complex yet intuitive real-time combat based on real medieval sword-fighting techniques.
Motion capture performed by medieval fighting experts at Frankfurt’s renowned Metric Minds studio, resulting in 600 spectacular and authentic in-game combat animations.
Six combat styles, dozens of potions, complex alchemy system, modifiable weapons and powerful magic add tactical depth to the fluid real-time experience.

Hardware Requirements

Windows XP SP2, Vista
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
1 GB RAM for XP / 1536 MB for Vista
128 MB Video RAM or greater with DirectX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better)
DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones