Review of The Witcher series Part 2/3

Good time of day, I continue my story about a series of games The Witcher Who has not read about the first part, here Stopgame.ru/blogs/topic/75756 Well, now we go to The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

Despite the fact that the first witcher was successful, with all his reiglabiness he was pretty tired, and the moder of mods did not allow creating many sane additions. But suddenly thunder thundered when no one was waiting for him. A video with a demonstration of the alpha version of the Witcher 2 fell into the network, he got there himself or the developers helped him, remains a mystery.

Somehow the alpha version looked like that. A radically new appearance of the environment (and heral, too), a modified dialogue system, a sea of blood, dragons, the game was supposed to go to a new engine “Miracle”-This all condemned the video for success. But later another lull began, until 2010. Well, in 2011, the release of the long -awaited second part took place, and now about the game itself.

The plot in the game became much more epic. The second game sends Geralt in search of the killer of kings, a big policy, the fate of the kingdoms, and then only the history of the White Wolf came into business. After Geralt saved the king of the foltx, the king made Geralt his bodyguard, considering him something like a living talisman. After the war seemed to be finished, Geralt could not prevent another attempt on the king, so the killer with the eyes of the Witcher headed the king and fled through the window through the window. Well, as if the killer turned out to be the most crazy soldier of the king, Geralt is accused of killing the king, but with the help of friends, Geralt escapes from prison and goes in search of a killer.

Gameplay has undergone huge changes. In particular, combat mechanics, now it is impossible to hold a glass of beer in one hand, and the other to chop enemies, the developers made the witcher ride the floor more often, put blocks on their own and be careful in every battle. Now the Witcher has a bottomless inventory, yes, the days have passed when the number of swords of Geralt was limited to the number of scabbards. Fights have become much more epic, there are no more combat racks, now there are rubilovo, even huge bosses have.

To rejoice or cry about the fact that now all the fights are Rubilovo so definitely and you can’t say it, perhaps it was worth developing the fighting of the first part, but on the other hand it turned out to be a high -quality Rubilovo. Alchemy has not really changed, now in addition to potions (which are accepted before or after) you can make bombs and oil, you forget about the existence of which in the first part very quickly. The mini-games have improved significantly, the fist fights are now made in the form of clumsy QTE, clumsy, but in general tolerable, in addition, another interesting mini-game appeared, arm wrestling.

Pumping is now divided into several branches. Training https://bookmakersnotongamstop.co.uk/review/winstler-casino/ (initially only it is available), swords, magic, alchemy.

Decisions you have made in the game quite strongly affect the plot. In the first part, the key feature was far -reaching consequences adopted on different segments of the plot. In about the second part, the developers jumped above themselves, your decisions in the first act radically changed the second, if you go along one storyline, then entire areas from another will be closed for you. The main problem of the game is an open world. It seems to be not, but there is where to turn around, and in some places the game is terribly corridor.

And remember erotic cards from the first part? The second developers decided to refuse this, making more realistic sex scenes, which are a little on the video for adults, Triss Mrigold even lit up in one of the magazine issues Playboy. And given the beautiful graphics of the game, female characters look excellent.

By the way, about the schedule. The game looks excellent and as atmospheric as the first part, but alas, in the second part there is no such sounding sound. There are no tracks of the first part of ADAMA Skorupa, there are more often very similar compositions, but there are also quite worthy compositions.

Everything would be generally great if not defense of the game. StarForce clucked again, hacked the game almost immediately after the release, and the licenses received a lot of problems in the form of a curve of activation, problems with DLC and a lot more. This enjoyed not only the players, but also the developers themselves, in the first addition, the Poles made the right move, abandoned the defense, violating promises to the partners, but deserved fan gratitude. The head of the company said that in the coffin they saw such protection, no sense, but harm to bulk. Of course, because of this, the developers had to spend money, but they received trust, love and respect of the players.

The game received a lot of awards, this time the developers decided to conquer even the consoles, though they limited themselves only to the version for Xbox 360. For on PlayStation 3 It was impossible to release the game, due to the fact that the technology of the game and the architecture of iron Sonya are incompatible. True and in the version for Xbox 360 Not everything was smooth either. The game went on stable 30 FPS, which was not easy for the developers, but the color scheme added more hemorrhoids, because of this, 10-bit rendering was used, instead of 64-bit. What the artists did not like, sometimes they cried from what a beautiful game turned into.

A pack of DLC and the new mod editor also came out to the game.
Witcher 2 turned out to be a good game. Beautiful, interesting, cinematic.

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The best comments

“After all, important decisions in the second part are not displayed in the third.” You generally transferred the conservations from the second to the third? All the other nit -picks are subjective, you will not agree with me in the right.

Honestly, no. It was impossible to do this on a curling iron. But there you could choose 5 (!) nothing meaningful options for events from the previous part. In addition to the quest with summer.
Where Yorvet, Saski and a bunch of other characters of which I saved, playing for the path of scoop? Why did Rocher not want to kill the Witcher for help?
If the saves from another part affect something in the global plot, and not on a tattoo or a couple of dialogs, then I will outplay on the computer. But judging by the read, nothing changes dramatically.

No. I think this part of the failure t.To.
1. Zero wagging the character.
Geralt constantly trends in the case and without. Has his opinion (which was excellent from the opinion of the player) for each question or event.
2. The idiocy of what is happening.
GG is an ultimatic catalyst for everything. If he does something, then no one wonders: “What this witcher allows himself?”I still remember the scene where it was possible to set a crowd of peasants on the king.
3. Global plot.
The player is confronted with the fact of some important things, for example, that he meets Triss, although in the first part he could ignore it.

In this game, we do not play the role, but look from the side for some kind of asshole (I cannot choose another word).
And even more so, it hurts to remember about it after passing the third part. After all, important solutions in the second part are not displayed in the third.
For me, this game will forever remain a demo to the third part.