Developer: CD Projekt RED STUDIO Publisher: Atari Release date: 2008-11-16 Genre: RPG Mode: Single-Player
Minimum Requirements Operating System : Windows XP(Service Pack 2)/Vista or Windows 7 Processor : Intel® Pentium 4 Processor 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800 GHz Ram : 1 GB of Ram (Windows XP) or 2 GB of Ram (Windows Vista and Windows 7) Vido : 128 MB DirectX® 9.0c with Pixel Shader Model 2.0 Sound Card : DirectX®-Compatible Sound Card Hard Drive : 8.5 GB Disc Drive : DVD-ROM 4x Input Methods : Keyboard, Mouse Media : DVD (1) Recommended Requirements Processor : Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor 2.4 GHz or AMD X2 5600+ GHz Ram : 2 GB of Ram Vido : 256 MB DirectX® 9.0c with Pixel Shader Model 3.0 Supported Chipsets ATi Radeon™ : 9800, X300, X550, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1050, X1300, X1550, X1600, X1650, X1800, X1900, X1950, HD2000, HD2400, HD2600, HD2900, HD3000, HD3400, HD3600, HD3850, HD3870, HD4000, HD4350, HD4550, HD4600, HD4700, HD4770, HD4800, HD4890, HD5700, HD5800, HD5970 nVIDIA™ Geforce® : 6 Series, 7 Series, 8300, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800, GeForce 100 Series, GeForce 200 Series, GeForce 300 Series There are also two new adventures available to play through: Side Effects and The Price of Neutrality. A new option is to mix and match ten different languages of voice and subtitles. For instance, players can now choose to play the game with Polish voices and English subtitles. Other featured languages are Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Czech, Hungarian and Chinese.
The Witcher Enhanced Edition also introduced some problems, most notably the "Cutscenes causing blurred graphics" bug which was not present in earlier versions of the game. The bug manifests in a way that all textures become blurred immediately after the player exits any cutscene or dialog, and remain blurred until the game is reloaded. On December 23, 2008 CDProjekt released a hotfix that addresses the issue, as well as fixing problems with EAX technology.
The patch has been proven to work in some cases, but not always. After applying the hotfix above many users reported that ingame FMV scenes have only sound and black screen instead of video. For some people the blur still remains after the patch. Inability to start the game also appears to be fairly common.
Aside from the game enhancements, The Witcher Enhanced Edition includes a "making of" DVD, a CD with 29 in-game soundtracks, another CD with "Inspired by" music, the short story The Witcher from the book The Last Wish, a map of Temeria printed on high quality paper, and the official strategy guide. In addition, a new and enhanced version of the D'jinni Adventure Editor is on the DVD with the two new Adventures. The game updates, as well as the box's extras, are available as a free download for owners of the original version who registered their game on the official forum. Furthermore, old savegames are compatible with the Enhanced Edition.
According to CD Project co-founder Michal Kicinski, the Enhanced Edition required a $1 million investment, and the company has shipped 300,000 copies of the retail version worldwide as of December 2008.
As of August 1, 2009, the cumulative Metacritic score of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition was 86% based on 29 reviews. |
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