While this means a world with less potential for navigation and discovery, it results in a more approachable game than its predecessor and geographical peers.
In contrast to the numbingly ambitious and often undercooked execution of other eastern European developed action-RPGs, The Witcher 2 instead takes a more comfortable path in structure, The Witcher 2 most resembles the Fable series, with primary quest hubs that send you over the same areas multiple times to find different items, locations, and enemies. This setup is somewhat misleading, though. Luckily, witching work, with its emphasis on combat magic, potion use, and general ass-kickery, is well suited to a life on the run in search of a kingslayer. Eventually, the premise comes together: a King is dead, the witcher Geralt is blamed, and it's up to you to catch the killer and clear your name. You'll be forgiven some confusion for the first half hour of The Witcher 2 as it whips from scene to scene in the present and past. As Polygon did not review the original Witcher 2 release, this review addresses the game as a whole, and not simply the new content and value proposition of this 'Enhanced Edition.') (Eds' note: While this month's release of The Witcher 2 is the 'Enhanced Edition,' all of the improvements and additional content added are available as an update to last year's original PC release. But a clear sense of character, place and tone lets CD Projekt Red's violent epic pick itself up and largely succeed as a game confident in its own identity. The Witcher 2 stumbles plenty, stubborn in its lack of communication with the player and often failing to meet those aforementioned ambitions. Somewhere along the way though, developer CDProject Red almost lets its ambitious sequel to 2007's The Witcher get away from it, and the Polish studio just manages to hold onto the reins. It's easy to appreciate something that feels so adult amidst peers that seem so juvenile, so often. But the world of The Witcher 2 is a ruthless, unapologetically harsh place. Don't get me wrong – it's a beautiful game from a visual perspective, with a wonderful sense of light and shadow, and a lot of care has gone into its construction. It's uncommon to find a game as willing to be as ugly as The Witcher 2 is.
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