The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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9.1

Universal acclaim- based on 5622 Ratings

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  1. nibblo
    Dec 30, 2015
    4
    Game is very buggy, it amazes me that Fallout 4 gets so much crap for being a buggy mess but I only encountered one time when I got stuck outside the police station with the Brotherhood of Steel, in The Witcher I was bugging out to the Xbox One dashboard every few hours and the quest with the merchant and bandits could never be finished if you didn't kill the merchant on horseback butGame is very buggy, it amazes me that Fallout 4 gets so much crap for being a buggy mess but I only encountered one time when I got stuck outside the police station with the Brotherhood of Steel, in The Witcher I was bugging out to the Xbox One dashboard every few hours and the quest with the merchant and bandits could never be finished if you didn't kill the merchant on horseback but somehow this game gets a pass!?
    Levelling is incredibly slow and if you make a wrong choice on which skill you upgrade good luck to you, it took me countless times to get through the caves when I followed the wild hunt because I didn't know I needed certain things like upgrading a specific magic skill and having bombs but could I go back and do these things? No. The inventory system is a mess, quests are run of the mill fetch and kill, Geralt sounds like a depressed clint eastwood character, difficulty levels on quests are random so one side quest could be easy and the one next door next to impossible. Just lazy design work hidden behind the justification of explore and come back idealogy.
    Games like Baldurs Gate did this type of thing so much better back in the day and this is really just a FP version of those games not done as well.
    Graphics are nice and some of the story beats are good but they are hiding a sub par game. Unfortunately everyone seems to be going gah gah for this game and it will probably get game of the year looking at the reviews but buyer beware you have to ignore a lot of shortcomings and be prepared to put up with a lot of lazy design here.    … Expand
  2. osprey
    Jun 1, 2015
    3
    This is my fourth and final review of this game. I have sunk at least one hundred hours into this game so far and haven't enjoyed any of it. There are many reasons for this . Firstly after all the hype and delay the game arrived broken and unfinished. The load times are endless and break the players immersion into the game. The choices make me feel manipulated and I don't feel I reallyThis is my fourth and final review of this game. I have sunk at least one hundred hours into this game so far and haven't enjoyed any of it. There are many reasons for this . Firstly after all the hype and delay the game arrived broken and unfinished. The load times are endless and break the players immersion into the game. The choices make me feel manipulated and I don't feel I really have any choice at all. I am just being forced into doing what is required for the story as you have written it. I really dislike the music and there is very little mood or atmosphere created by it. I honestly don't feel invested in any way and this makes me very sad. The avalanche of 10s this game is getting is a mystery to me. I still don't know if I can finish this game because I am not getting any reward for my efforts, it all seems so meaningless. I like RPG games as a rule and I love traveling by horseback but non of this is making this game fun for me. This is the last Witcher game for me and for sure the last time I fall for the hype.… Expand
  3. OneHonestReview
    Nov 25, 2015
    3
    Risen is one of the worst rpg games from last gen. This is risen for the next gen just labeled differently. Here is an honest review.

    The world which you travel is open world, Beautiful and wait, wait a second. No. No it's not. The world is not open and if you think it is you are a darn right fool. It is a segment map which means it is not open. You can zoom out on the entire map which    Risen is one of the worst rpg games from last gen. This is risen for the next gen just labeled differently. Here is an honest review.

    The world which you travel is open world, Beautiful and wait, wait a second. No. No it's not. The world is not open and if you think it is you are a darn right fool. It is a segment map which means it is not open. You can zoom out on the entire map which then shows areas you can go to. This does not make it open world. The fact I can't ride the worlds most retarded horse from the road that is shown on the map to the overall area to another is just horrible. It is not open world if you think so, you are clearly not the brightest cookie in the jar. They try to make it seem alive with the NPC's but has anyone even noticed they just do the same thing, the same kid is in the same puddle every day singing the same song. **** off with that.

    The graphics are standard nothing special. It only looks slightly better than a risen game. The world itself is boring and lack luster with stupid NPC's trying to make it feel alive. No once did I look at this game in awe with the sun shining down across these really boring places that all look the same, nothing sticks out. The world is dead with no real atmosphere. It just feels like a game.

    The movements. Ahh this is where the game truly falls apart. Playing a GAME you'd think the most important aspect really would be this... GAMEPLAY. Clearly not for CDPR. It is clunky, every swing of the sword is weightless, I might as well be holding a feather duster. The combat tries to copy Dark souls with it's timing and what not but fails, there is no weight, it is boring and the camera angles do not help, especially when you have multiple enemies on you, even three!! It becomes a chore, panning the camera yourself only to be smacked but a **** then as you stagger the rest come and gangbang you and opps its game over, hit load last save and go make yourself a cuppa cause that ****ing loading screen.

    Walking in this game is a hard task as is horse riding with retarded roach. "Look a small rock I must halt master, I am no match for tiny rock" says retarded roach. This is a next gen game in 2015. Games before this such as red dead had better horse handling, The best horse handling I've ever played has come from MGSV. There is no excuse to get this wrong when games from the past and present can do it better than you have done.

    The inventory. Holy **** balls. Try to go through it and it is just killing your brain cells one by one. It is so messy it's like someone couldn't get to the toilet, shat all over the floor and said hey, inventory system.

    Alchemy. It sucks plain and simple, Idk where to get these flowers or items really it does not give you any hint at all, which can be okay, hand holding in a game is kinda annoying, but when half the ****ing flowers look the ****ing same I just think how the **** and I meant to know what I'm doing. What the hell does this item even do, well you will probably never know, as the game doesn't really tell you.

    One thing that really pissed me off is the fact in game some one said I'm centuries old. So I'm a master witcher, wise and knowledgeable. So I do a quest, where I'm to fight a werewolf, He even said in his grumbling voice I'm looking for a werewolf, yet there is **** all in bestiary so idk what other things it hates apart from my silver sword and fire cause not many things with fur like fire. So I think to hell with this google will answer me. I google it, there are other things to use only problem is HOW THE HELL DO YOU GET IT!!!???!!! A bomb that is not in my crafting inventory, idk where to get it there is not indication. I will never find it I give up.

    I was playing it with a mate and I look at my level okay, I've got 725 exp, I go off and fight a **** ton of things, wolves, drowners, bears. Look at my exp 745. Are you actually kidding me, I start yelling and laughing because the fact you can't level up from fighting things in the "Open World" means there is no point what so ever to getting of retarded roach and fighting. Anything apart from the quests are there for meaningless. Though I also did a quest and revived 25 exp... Yeah it helped so much and did not waste my time having to listen to a boring cut scene with some **** spouting nonsense.

    In short.

    The world is dead and baron.
    The combat is ****ty and broken.
    The controls are piss poor.
    The graphics are nothing special.
    The horse should just go away I can run and jump and get to where I want faster with less difficult navigation.
    The inventory system is an abomination.
    Camera angles are just a no no especially in witcher sense mode.

    This game is over hyped and over rated. It's nothing special.

    Also why does everyone have a ****ing ostrich neck?    … Expand
  4. KsBenAtaGG
    Jul 19, 2022
    3
    firstly hello everyone, this game is too boring for me. game mentions for legend but i didnt take gram pleasure. cutscenes are gets me sleepy. atmosphere are cool. travelling with roach is relaxing for me.
  5. Reaverwind
    Oct 14, 2015
    2
    I'd consider Witcher 3 a great game were it not for a number of issues. The inventory system is a mess. For an action game, the controls are sometimes surprisingly unresponsive. Quest-scaling is all over the place. Loot scaling system is designed to almost consistently reward the player with garbage. The experience is also marred by the game being built around two contradictory designI'd consider Witcher 3 a great game were it not for a number of issues. The inventory system is a mess. For an action game, the controls are sometimes surprisingly unresponsive. Quest-scaling is all over the place. Loot scaling system is designed to almost consistently reward the player with garbage. The experience is also marred by the game being built around two contradictory design philosophies:
    1) Geralt should be poor
    2) Geralt has to constantly upgrade his equipment - which a poor Geralt should not be able to do.
    This built-in contradiction in design forces the player to focus too much time on scouring the gameworld for the means to upgrade, which can become quite tedious.

    That being said, with the way CDPR has been patching for XBox One, I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. Every patch has introduced problems, but the latest one really takes the cake:
    -all DLC's broken
    -reduced functionality
    -new graphics issues, some of which are migraine-inducing
    -new AI bugs
    -downgraded performance (again)
    -missing items
    -savegame issues    … Expand
  6. countyourmacros
    Jun 22, 2015
    2
    Let's start with the good! The lighting was well done, excellent variety in enemies, and the lore and storyline are very well done. So yeah, that's basically all the good I can say. TL;DR rating at the end of each segment.

    Now onto the bad... The voice acting was AWFUL and it complete ruins any immersion despite how hard you try to like it (and believe me I tried very hard to like    Let's start with the good! The lighting was well done, excellent variety in enemies, and the lore and storyline are very well done. So yeah, that's basically all the good I can say. TL;DR rating at the end of each segment.

    Now onto the bad...

    The voice acting was AWFUL and it complete ruins any immersion despite how hard you try to like it (and believe me I tried very hard to like this game). 0/10

    The graphics aren't as advertised and are not what you'd expect from a game at this point in the next gen console's life. AC Unity has far better graphics despite being nearly a year old. 5.5/10

    Music is okay, but not nearly as good as Skyrim's. I still give it a 7/10 since they didn't cut corners here.

    Combat is horrible and needlessly over complicated, considering you only have like two-three weapons and 5 spells. Even on the easy modes you die too quickly. The blocking mechanic is choppy and useless if you're against a group of enemies. The dodge/roll button does nothing since most enemies can attack you while you're rolling. 0/10

    The crafting/alchemy thing is awful too. Remember how Far Cry 4 had an annoying number of plants for making potions? Well this game is even worse for that. It's not like you can forego this though, as you need potions/oils to fight certain enemies. 0/10

    The gameplay and controls are awful. It is such a pain to try and use a ladder, mount your horse, swim, etc... GTA has generally bad swimming mechanics, but they seem godly compared to this game's swimming mechanics. I literally will do 4 underwater backflips and drown before I resurface. -5/10

    This is an even bigger disappointment than Destiny. 2/10    … Expand
  7. JacksonAkson
    Aug 9, 2015
    2
    This is the first time I have ever been annoyed enough with a game to post a review. This game is HORRIBLE. The entire user interface sucks (player controls, map, alchemy, crafting...All of it). Visually it makes me seasick to even watch the screen. The fonts are way too small to read anything unless I stand 3 feet away from a 56 inch 1080 TV. Countless cut screens and countless tripsThis is the first time I have ever been annoyed enough with a game to post a review. This game is HORRIBLE. The entire user interface sucks (player controls, map, alchemy, crafting...All of it). Visually it makes me seasick to even watch the screen. The fonts are way too small to read anything unless I stand 3 feet away from a 56 inch 1080 TV. Countless cut screens and countless trips to the internet to try an understand what I am supposed to do - generally to just start a mission. "Follow the ravens using your witcher senses" somehow really means "meditate until dark". What a joke.

    I have managed to play this POS for over 100 hours and never once smiled. Don't waste $60 on it. It'll be in the Wal-Mart $7 discount rack soon.    … Expand
  8. LucasSchmidt
    Feb 7, 2016
    2
    for me that was the 2015 disappointment
    Extremily long load, no character customization, poor skill customization (is greaty if u r a warrior, bad if you are a "witch" LOL), bad AI, the game is terrible.
  9. samspade23
    Mar 3, 2021
    2
    Worst damn game I've ever played. I broke my controller out of frustration with the terrible controls. No wonder CD Project Red has a bad rep. After Cyberpunk and now this junk?
  10. DegenCutter
    Jun 17, 2015
    1
    A terrible game with a boring lead protagonist and a clunky and unintuative control scheme. I can't recommend this game at all even if the graphics are fairly decent. Graphics alone don't make a game.
  11. incubus664
    May 20, 2015
    1
    Seriously? THIS is the game they delayed to get it right?
    Nausea-inducing camera, which only gets worse when using the Witcher focus skill, which doesn't tell you much anyway.
    Clunky buttton-mashing combat and animations that look seriously last gen. The inventory system text is so small it's barely legible on a 50" TV, and seems to have been designed for PC players with no    Seriously? THIS is the game they delayed to get it right?
    Nausea-inducing camera, which only gets worse when using the Witcher focus skill, which doesn't tell you much anyway.
    Clunky buttton-mashing combat and animations that look seriously last gen.
    The inventory system text is so small it's barely legible on a 50" TV, and seems to have been designed for PC players with no consideration for console gaming.
    Add to this a story that is drab and uninteresting from the outset, especially when compared to Witcher 2, which was great right off the bat.
    This is NOT a massive open world game, either. It's a great big map where you go from point A to point B to point X and the challenge seems to be mastering your boredom.
    I was really looking forward to this game and to say that I'm gutted is an understatement.    … Expand
  12. Neologian
    Jul 8, 2015
    1
    What game are all the positive reviewers playing? Graphics are nice & voice acting is decent. Okay, but then what? General character movement is clunky with scores of hidden snag points and frustrating camera movement. Combat movement is dismal and unresponsive resulting in constant failures to block, dodge, and strike on a regular basis. Inventory management system is THE WORST I'veWhat game are all the positive reviewers playing? Graphics are nice & voice acting is decent. Okay, but then what? General character movement is clunky with scores of hidden snag points and frustrating camera movement. Combat movement is dismal and unresponsive resulting in constant failures to block, dodge, and strike on a regular basis. Inventory management system is THE WORST I've seen in decades. Leveling is slow and level ups inconsequential. Opponent level matching is out of whack and this combined with the horrible combat mechanics results in frequent untimely deaths even in early encounters. Quests are nearly all simple and brainless "go fetch" or "get through dialogue" affairs with most being impossible to complete in the early game due to their required level and the combat and encounter level issues noted earlier.

    Witcher 3 is a visually decent game wrapped around some of THE WORST in-game and inventory mechanics I've seen in a very long time. Disappointing purchase.    … Expand
  13. Stacks1
    Apr 7, 2020
    1
    Utter crap! Controls and gameplay are the worse. You get held up on every little stick, rock, nook, and cranny there is.
    Battling is terrible.
    Extremely repetitive with these weak monster dens. And what’s with how much health you lose, (if you don’t die) off these little weak falls? Game is poorly executed. I really don’t know how it has such a high rating.. noobs. Someone in comments    Utter crap! Controls and gameplay are the worse. You get held up on every little stick, rock, nook, and cranny there is.
    Battling is terrible.
    Extremely repetitive with these weak monster dens. And what’s with how much health you lose, (if you don’t die) off these little weak falls?
    Game is poorly executed. I really don’t know how it has such a high rating.. noobs.
    Someone in comments compared this game to Skyrim lol not even close bud. In fact, don’t waste your money on this game, just get Skyrim it’s a million times better.
    Few hours of gameplay and it’s going in the garbage. Game is trash.    … Expand
  14. Hij45g
    Jun 29, 2020
    1
    This game is a dialogue simulator cutscenes everywhere if this was television show then it's fair but it's no game
  15. Maestra
    Mar 3, 2022
    1
    Была бы хорошая игра, но 30fps, баги, и лицемерие CDPR - это 1 бал. Доработайте, извинитесь - поправлю.
  16. Iluvatar21
    Aug 24, 2015
    0
    -flat map, empty, repetitive scenery
    -clunky controls, imprecise object targetting, can't look completely down
    -even at the highest difficulty you can mash the attack button and everything will die (no potions, oils, bombs, etc needed)
  17. Oliaphx
    Jul 16, 2015
    0
    The grind makes this quest unplayable from the get go. It's a good long while before you get to level 2 even longer for levels 3 and 4. They did not attempt to match level from MOB to player making this game very grindy. The story is linear and as far as RPGs go this is one of the worst I've ever played. The controls and camera angle are rough. You can't target with your sword and itsThe grind makes this quest unplayable from the get go. It's a good long while before you get to level 2 even longer for levels 3 and 4. They did not attempt to match level from MOB to player making this game very grindy. The story is linear and as far as RPGs go this is one of the worst I've ever played. The controls and camera angle are rough. You can't target with your sword and its pretty much you hope you end up where you need to be to land your next attack. The ranged attack is primitive, there are 8 bit games with better aim than this (cant call it cross hairs because its a dot). The mini-map is underdeveloped and so is the world map. They made the world pretty, but a pretty game with crap controls, linear story, and uninteresting plot doesn't make a good RPG. If you must have it buy it used, my copy will end up in game stop shortly.… Expand
  18. megabear
    Jul 25, 2018
    0
    This game does not deserve a 9+. The game seems to have a lot of things to do, but when you take a step back the game is about rather than quality.

    - Quests are terrible. I wish they had been more creative.
    - Story is lacking. Feels very diluted and stretched thin.
    - Characters are not very likable.
    - Combat is clunky
    - Game is buggy, as expected of Bethesda..
  19. Twigball
    Jul 1, 2018
    0
    Oh my, that was my first Witcher game and just wow! Such a well done mature game. Gorgeous graphics, I found myself admiring the views. And a really great story that just kept going, such a long game. Masterpiece.
  20. ifmenweresheep
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    Would be a good game, except the CONSTANT 4th WALL BREAK via constant loading in between EACH AND EVERY DIALOG SELECTION.

    Literally any other voice-acted RPG i can name, across any platform (including Witcher 2), does not have this... quirk. When your AAA release gets flossed on by KOTOR... yeah, not impressive.
  21. Wellbrasil
    Feb 16, 2019
    0
    O pior jogo da minha vida. História muito cansativa, demora muito pra coisa andar, você fica andando no mapa fazendo atividade nova. Detestei.
  22. Loukanikos
    May 1, 2019
    0
    I gave zero score because of a problem who made this game unplayable for me, the movement system.
    Not the combat movement system who is reasonable (maybe even good). But the character normal and horse riding movement.
    The game is excellent, the world is beautiful, the quests are excellent, the story, etc but when i try to enjoy all of it Geralt remembers me of how unnatural, frustrating    I gave zero score because of a problem who made this game unplayable for me, the movement system.
    Not the combat movement system who is reasonable (maybe even good). But the character normal and horse riding movement.
    The game is excellent, the world is beautiful, the quests are excellent, the story, etc but when i try to enjoy all of it Geralt remembers me of how unnatural, frustrating and wrong he can move.
    This is the worst thing can happen in games, a game who os 99% perfect but have that ONE irritating thing who will never change.
    Couldn't they make he move like in DOZENS of successful games like Fallout or Skyrim? Is that difficult?    … Expand
  23. Efendi
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Замечательная игра, уeбищная компания. Привет сами знаете из какой страны.
  24. JenikMax
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Всегда поддерживал вас , не ожидал что вы настолько конченые.. Лицемерные фашисты!!!
  25. Winston_D
    Nov 24, 2019
    0
    4,5K ratings and only 300 reviews. LOL MT. Positive bombing spotted!!!!!!!!!
  26. Vegito901
    Apr 5, 2021
    0
    Ok now I got to be honest in this one.

    At first I felt At the beginning I felt that the game was too overwhelming, too big and too adult for me because I came from Skyrim, and to make a comparison was impossible because they were the ''two greats'' of the genre. I watched an advice video about the game. When I came back I was excited, and when I left White Orchard.... 210 hours    Ok now I got to be honest in this one.

    At first I felt At the beginning I felt that the game was too overwhelming, too big and too adult for me because I came from Skyrim, and to make a comparison was impossible because they were the ''two greats'' of the genre.

    I watched an advice video about the game. When I came back I was excited, and when I left White Orchard....

    210 hours are the number of hours I have played. I've played the main campaign 2 times and I'm waiting for the next-gen update to play the DLC's again. The world of The Witcher 3, the Continent, is plagued with evilness, hunger, suffering, sadness and war, that's what you see, and the folklore and richness of the world will make all this stuff charming. Thanks to the huge amount of different and side quests, enemies, how the world reacts to you and your decisions (nothing to do with Skyrim by the way), the beauty of the game itself, the characters, the story, even the gameplay, everything! This game will catch you, and when you finish it you will realize that you played the best game ever. And that if you used your time for something worthwhile.

    5000 characters are too few to be able to express all the love and respect I have for this game, all the affection I have acquired for the characters and how I enjoyed the main campaign. But maybe they are enough to talk about the DLC's.

    Hearts of Stone is fantastic and introduces you to one of the best villains of the saga of video games, I do not want to detail more because although it is worthwhile, what I want to talk more than anything is the second DLC. And even so, it's a sin not to buy the whole game.

    Blood and Wine... Imagine a place where you gather the most beautiful of French, Italian and Spanish culture. That beautiful music, those colors, that attitude of the inhabitants of Toussaint... after wars and suffering, after death, you arrive in a world full of life, wealth, abundance and nobility. Someone who has a strong European identity would cry from happiness if such a place existed. Toussaint is magnificent, and I repeat it because I measure my words, MAGNIFICENT. A year after playing the DLC I am still humming the songs, I even have them downloaded on my phone and know how to play them on instrument. I already loved The Witcher 3, it was already the best game I'd ever played in my life, and then came Toussaint....

    It's a near perfect game. It's magnificent. It's wonderful. It's The Witcher 3.    … Expand
  27. PartII
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Just garbage, i cant believe that someone allowed this garbage to exist dont buy it
  28. BlueBlazer881
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    This game is amazing but has a pretty steep learning curve. While the narrative is fantastic, gameplay takes a while to get used to but is part of the joy. Yes combat can feel clunky and frustrating at some times but part of the joy of this game is not only learning the nuances of the combat but also how to defeat enemies in the most efficient way.

    Rather than just relying on a skill    This game is amazing but has a pretty steep learning curve. While the narrative is fantastic, gameplay takes a while to get used to but is part of the joy. Yes combat can feel clunky and frustrating at some times but part of the joy of this game is not only learning the nuances of the combat but also how to defeat enemies in the most efficient way.

    Rather than just relying on a skill bar to determine how strong you are, this game encourages you to dive into the lore to conduct yourself in the best way possible. For gamers that can allow themselves to lean into this and accept the challenge of the learning curve are met with one of the most rewarding experiences in gaming.

    Aside from this learning curve this game offers intense immersion, great character development & story, great customization and level up system, and compelling lore. After playing the game throughout it is clear why many consider it "game of the decade."    … Expand
  29. Lol987654321
    Dec 11, 2020
    0
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  30. Guilherme121
    Jul 21, 2021
    0
    The best game I have already played in my life, just buy it, stop reading that stupid review and buy that game
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#8 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2015

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Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
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  1. Xbox Achievements
    Nov 17, 2015
    92
    Despite its vast scope, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt tells a personal, intimate and touching story, filled with characters you’ll love and hate, and stuffed with monsters to slay. I completed the main storyline in around 50 hours and - yes I know this is a cliche - I’ve barely scratched the surface. The Witcher 3 is an astounding achievement.
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  2. X-ONE Magazine UK
    Jun 27, 2015
    90
    Not quite the technical masterpiece we hoped for, but the mild disappointment soon melts away. The Witcher 3 is a huge, engrossing time-sink of a game that you'll happily spend dozens of hours on. [Issue#125, p.74]
  3. Games.cz
    Jun 4, 2015
    100
    The CD Projekt Red surpassed all expectations and they really managed to combine a megalomaniac open world with a strong story. Witcher 3 is a masterpiece, which you will talk to your grandchildren about.
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