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In every department, The Witcher is an intelligent, adult and thoroughly compelling adventure.

Available on: PC
Genre: Role Playing
Release date: Oct 30, 2007
Published by: Atari
Developed by: CD Projekt

Multiplayer Modes:

Offline

1 player SOLO

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Further Reading

More games than you’d realize have their roots in novels. See which books are worth a look

Jun 18, 2008

GenCon preview roundup

Put away your cards and dice and pewter figurines - here are the videogames that rocked tabletop...

Sep 5, 2007

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News

Impulse Top 10 Weekly Sales Chart, Oct 25-31

Stardock has released their weekly top ten sellers list on Impulse for the week ending on October...

News from N4G Nov 5, 2009

The Witcher Now Only $20

Apparently Steam's seen some good returns from their previous mid-week specials and they're going to...

News from N4G Oct 28, 2009

The Witcher Director's Cut 30% Off on Steam

Steam has slashed the price of CD Projekt's RPG The Witcher in celebration of the recently released...

News from N4G Aug 10, 2009

The Witcher Nudity Update Released

CD Projekt has made available the Director's Cut update for their RPG The Witcher, now available for...

News from N4G Aug 1, 2009

The Witcher Director's Cut Undresses Friday

CD Projekt has announced the release date for the fully restored and uncensored version of their...

News from N4G Jul 28, 2009

Nudity Arrives in The Witcher Director's Cut

CD Projekt has officially announced The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, A stateside...

News from N4G Jul 14, 2009

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition v1.5 patch released

As promised, CD Projekt has released the version 1.5 update for their fantasy role-playing game, The...

News from N4G Jul 8, 2009

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition v1.5 patch coming...

The Witcher v1.5 will be the newest version of the game, and will include all bonus content from The...

News from N4G Jun 3, 2009

New The Witcher Mod

This mod from MasterOfDarkness edits more than 3000 textures, objects and effects

News from N4G May 2, 2009

CD Projeckt Red licenses Havok Complete for...

Eric Caoili from Gamasutra writes: Intel-owned middleware and tools company Havok announced that...

News from N4G Mar 28, 2009

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Review

A heaping of fantasy slathered in political commentary and misogyny

Oct 30, 2007

Oct 30, 2007 Fantasy games come in many shapes and sizes, but most of them strictly follow the code of featuring the great, the good and the virtuous fending off the bad, the corrupted and the green-skinned. Sex is generally confined to a pretty elf wearing a chain mail bra, and political comment never strays much further than a Greenpeace quest in which raw magic has infected some wandering hedgehog creatures and not only rendered them mad, but also significantly upped their armour ...

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Previews

GenCon preview roundup

Put away your cards and dice and pewter figurines - here are the videogames that rocked tabletop...

Sep 5, 2007

Sept 5, 2007 Though traditional tabletop games have been losing ground to videogames for years, the hot new thing at this year's GenCon Indy appeared to be mash-ups that merged the best of both worlds to create the gaming equivalent of Frankensteins monster - though more friendly and less likely to lug away your girlfriend. Along with these hybrid creations, the usual MMO suspects were out in force along with a few other intriguing stragglers that we discovered. Legends of Norath The first of ... » Read Full The Witcher preview

The Witcher - updated impressions

Be-witching adventures

Jul 16, 2007

The problem is, the styling of fantasy so often takes precedence over the point of fantasy. RPG gamers and game developers are both guilty of looking for the orcs and elves first. Got goblins? Get in. Thats the wrong approach. Fantasy is at its best when it acts as allegory, when it uses the mystical to illustrate the real. Frankenstein isnt a book about a zombie with a headache: its about man over-reaching himself at the dawn of the industrial age. Games, it seems, can find this difficult to ... » Read Full The Witcher preview

The Witcher - hands-on

Find out how The Witcher's timing-based combat feels and why your choices matter more than ever

Jul 5, 2007

"We are afraid of America," said Michal Madej, chief designer for developer, CD Projekt's latest role-playing game, The Witcher and we understand his concerns. Those unfamiliar with Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski's fantastical tales of Geralt - a mutant monster-slayer - won't be dying to find out what happened to the famous killer for hire after the end of the short stories on which the game is based. It's true that many English speaking gamers' will be unfamiliar with Sapkowski's world, and ... » Read Full The Witcher preview

The Witcher - hands-on

Broom, broom, shake shake the room...

Apr 3, 2007

We find ourselves with The Witcher on-screen before us and almost immediately the withering vines of hope have begun to flourish. We instantly think of Oblivion, but also of the immediacy of Guild Wars (theres no multiplayer, before you ask) - even the multitudinous flavors of White Wolfs World of Darkness universe, in the sense that youre plunged into a fantasy world that at once seems familiar, yet also not quite right. There are quaint cottages and rolling hills, but nothing is quite as ... » Read Full The Witcher preview

The Witcher

When nobody else has the balls to slay the beast, they call you

Mar 1, 2007

Let's face it: fantasy RPGs have been in a rut. We get it, already: Elves are slender and noble, Dwarves are boozed-up walking beards, and Good must triumph against the forces of Evil. Enter the works of Andrzej Sapkowski, author of the best-selling Polish stories The Witcher is based upon. Though largely unknown to Western audiences, Sapkowski takes Tolkien's seminal fantasy archetypes, and amps up their relevance by injecting potent modern themes like terrorism, racism, substance abuse, and ... » Read Full The Witcher preview

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