The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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The third game in a series, it holds nothing back from the player. Open world adventures of the renowned monster slayer Geralt of Rivia are now even on a larger scale. Following the source material more accurately, this time Geralt is trying to find the child of the prophecy, Ciri while making a quick coin from various contracts on the side. Great attention to the world building above all creates an immersive story, where your decisions will shape the world around you.

Visuals and other features

CD Project Red are infamous for the amount of work they put into their games, and it shows, because aside from classic third-person action RPG base game they provided 2 massive DLCs with unique questlines and 16 smaller DLCs, containing extra quests and items.

Players praise the game for its atmosphere and a wide open world that finds the balance between fantasy elements and realistic and believable mechanics, and the game deserved numerous awards for every aspect of the game, from music to direction.

Release Date

May 18, 2015

Metacritic Score

92

Rating

Achievements Count

684

DLCs

3

Play Time

51 hours

Games in Series

8

ESRB

Mature 17+: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol

System Requirements

Minimum:

  • CPU: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
  • GPU: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
  • RAM: 6 GB
  • HDD: 35 GB

Recommended:

  • CPU: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz/ AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
  • GPU: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • HDD: 35 GB

Interesting Facts

  • It is the sequel to the 2011 game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and the third game in The Witcher video game series, played in an open world with a third-person perspective.
  • Two expansions were also released to critical acclaim: Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
  • Players control Geralt of Rivia, a monster slayer for hire known as a Witcher.
  • The game takes place in a fictional fantasy world based on Slavic mythology.
  • The game’s story has three possible endings, determined by the player’s choices at key points in the narrative.
  • Development began in 2011 and lasted for three and a half years.
  • It holds more than 200 game of the year awards and has been cited as one of the greatest video games ever made.
  • The game has responsive, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and dynamic environments.
  • The game focuses on narrative and has a dialogue tree which allows players to choose how to respond to non-player characters.
  • These points may be used on four skill trees: combat, signs, alchemy and general.
  • There are two modes of melee attack; light attacks are fast but weak, and heavy attacks are slow but strong.
  • In addition to physical attacks, Geralt has five magical signs at his disposal: Aard, Axii, Igni, Yrden and Quen.

Mod Support

Yes

Cheats support

Yes

Contains Game/Battle Pass

Yes

Cross-Play

Yes

Virtual Reality Support

Yes

Number of maps

4

Third/First Person

Third person

Platforms

Nintendo Switch PC PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series S Xbox Series X

Genres

AdventureRPG

Game Engine

REDengine 3

Protagonist sex

Male

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