( July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The player often finds themselves choosing between the lesser of two evils. It also adds to the game's replay value, as the consequences resulting from the player's decisions can lead to significant differences in the events that take place later, and ultimately a very different gameplay experience than in prior playthroughs. This helps avert a save-reload approach to decision making.
Neither can be created until talent points have been allocated into the corresponding skills.Ī time-delayed decision-consequence system means that the repercussions of players' decisions will make themselves apparent in plot devices in later acts of the game.
They can also create bombs for use as weapons in combat. In addition to potions, the player can create oils used to augment the damage done by weapons. This can be reduced by drinking a special potion or by meditating at an inn or fireplace. Each time Geralt drinks potions, they increase the toxicity level of his body. Once the player creates an unknown potion, he can choose to drink it, but if the potion is a failure it will poison or have other harmful effects on Geralt. The recipes for these potions can be learned through scrolls, or by experimentation. The player can create potions that increase health or endurance regeneration, allow Geralt to see in the dark, or provide other beneficial effects. With precise timing, the player can link Geralt's attacks into combos to damage enemies more effectively.Īlchemy is a significant part of the gameplay. The steel blade is used to fight humans and other flesh-and-blood beings, while the silver sword is more effective against supernatural monsters and beasts (against some of which steel may have no effect whatsoever). Both of Geralt's main swords also have distinctively different combat styles from other weaponry, and serve specific purposes. The player can switch between the styles at any point. The fast style allows for more rapid, less-damaging attacks with a higher chance of hitting faster enemies the strong style deals more damage in exchange for a slow attack speed, and a lower chance to hit faster enemies and the group style features sweeping attacks best used if Geralt is surrounded. Players can choose one of three fighting styles to use in different situations and against different foes. In all three views the controls can be changed to be primarily mouse focused or a combined keyboard and mouse approach. There are three camera styles available in The Witcher: two isometric perspectives, where the mouse is used to control most functions, and an over-the-shoulder view, which brings the player closer to the in-game combat while limiting vision. Two sequels were released: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in 2011 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015.Ī screenshot of an outdoor scene in The Witcher displaying additional lighting effects The Witcher was released in 2007 to positive reviews from critics, holding an aggregate score of 81/100 on Metacritic. However, it was suspended as a result of payment problems with console developers Widescreen Games. In 2009, a console version, The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, was scheduled for release using an entirely new engine and combat system. The game utilizes BioWare's proprietary Aurora Engine. The game's system of moral choices as part of the storyline was noted for its time-delayed consequences and lack of black-and-white morality. The story takes place in a medieval fantasy world and follows Geralt of Rivia, one of a few traveling monster hunters who have supernatural powers, known as Witchers.
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The Witcher ( Polish: Wiedźmin (Warlock)) is a 2007 action role-playing game developed by CD Projekt Red and published by Atari on Microsoft Windows and CD Projekt on OS X, based on the novel series of The Witcher by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, taking place after the events of the main saga.