The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Xbox One

I’m a bit late on my review, as the game was released over 2 months ago, but I prefer to spend quality time playing a game before I send out a review. I meant to post my review after around 50 hours of gaming. I’m currently 250(!) hours in and just now getting around to it. My free time has been so consumed with actually playing the game that I haven’t taken the time to do anything else. That should tell you what you need to know about this game. If it doesn’t, then this should – GO BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW! I am a Bethesda fanboy so I hate comparing games to the Elder Scrolls series in terms of how another game stacks up against it. So I will say this, Witcher 3 is by far the best third person RPG I have ever played. CD Projekt Red knocks it out of the park with this game. In an age where games are pushed out half completed, it is refreshing to have a game developer take their time and deliver a home run product from the moment you open the wrapper. Do you remember what it was like to open a game case and have it contain more than just the game itself? You may have to think back several years. That’s why I was shocked when I opened the case and, along with the game itself, it contained a thick manual, a map of the game world, a thank you from CD Projekt Red, and a few other goodies. It took me back to my younger days in a good, nostalgic kind of way. Before I begin my in-depth review, I feel I should state my Witcher series background as a point of reference. I never played Witcher 1 (although I read a quick summary before I began W3). I did play Witcher 2 but, to be quite honest, I never really got that into it. So my review comes as someone who isn’t a biased fanboy, but someone who was actually looking for ways to not like it. And so we begin… Combat: 9/10 I’ve read some reviews where the combat was given a poor score as an ‘X’ and ‘Y’ button masher. This couldn’t be farther from the truth, in my opinion. You have your two basic light and heavy attacks, sure, but there is so much else that goes into the combat. Each monster in the game has a unique style of fighting and you must change your fighting style accordingly. Some monsters have quick attacks so it is best to fast attack them because if you try to heavy attack they will hit you before you swing and cancel your attack. Some creatures are slower to attack so you can afford that extra time to hit them with a heavy attack and deal more damage. You can block (some) attacks with a parry. Others you have to backstep or roll away from. With dozens of enemies comes dozens of combat strategies. I haven’t even began to talk about using signs (magic abilities) and preparing for combat with blade oils and potions. Monsters each have weaknesses to certain oils and signs, which are fortunately kept in a Beastiary glossary on the menu screen in case you forget (which is easy to do since there are dozens of unique monsters). If you’re playing on easier difficulties, preparing before entering combat isn’t as important. But if you’re playing on one of the harder difficulties, preparing before battle becomes vital. There are blade oils for each species of monster that you can apply to your weapons that increase damage. Oh yeah, did I mention that there are about a dozen unique bombs and a crossbow at your disposal as well? Movement: 7/10 The movement is weird to get used to at first because Geralt doesn’t react immediately after giving him a command. You know, like a real person. Once you get used to it it’s not so bad and I actually prefer it now. With the v1.07 patch, a more reactive movement option was added as an alternative that you can switch to in the Options menu. I used it for about 10 minutes and had to switch back because it didn’t seem as real. The only time when I don’t like the less reactive movement is when I’m in a confined space. The underwater swimming movement was horrid at first but a patch seems to have corrected it some. It’s still not perfect, but it’s better than it was. It’s easy to get caught swimming in circles underwater and almost drowning. Plot/Quests: 10/10 It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been as immersed into a game’s story as I have with W3. There are some recurring characters from previous games, so I recommend reading the Wikipedia plot summary if you haven’t played them, but it is not make-or-break to enjoy this game. Apart from the main quest, there are countless side quests. It’s such a great feeling to open the quest log and see 20-30 quests sitting in there. I won’t divulge too much information because it’s hard to do so without giving away spoilers. But there are certain quests that will leave you emotionally drained. I got so invested and emotionally attached to some quests and characters that I was left empty when it was done, and not all of them have happy endings. That is the mark of truly great storytelling. The game also has great replayability because there are 36 different endings that your actions throughout the game determine. I’m currently 100 hours into my second playthrough and it’s like I’m playing the game for the first time because I’m, for the most part, taking different routes on quests that will change the ending. Exploration: 9/10 The W3 world is enormous! Easily the most expansive world I’ve ever experienced. On their Wikipedia page, it’s described as 30 times larger than previous Witcher games and 20% larger than Skyrim. That should give you a scale to realize how large this world is. I’ve played Dragon Age: Inquisition which is possibly close to the size of the W3 world (hard to compare since DA:I was several separate regions), but in Inquisition it annoyed me at how large the world was. By the end of the game I was so sick of exploring and hated it when I looked at the world map and realized I still had 3 or 4 more regions to explore. This never happened in W3. There are so many villages, caves, camps, monster nests, and many other things to explore. Despite that, I never felt that it became redundant. I had just as much fun clearing the last cave as I did the first one. The only reason I took 1 star off is because there isn’t an abundant amount of diversity of the landscapes. Of the two main areas, one is a snowy, mountainous region and the other is a sprawling grassland with forests and swamps. Difficulty: ?/10 Obviously, difficulty is a hard topic to review because there are 4 different difficulty settings and everyone prefers something different. On my first playthrough I played on the second easiest difficulty. The early parts of the game are tough as you get used to the controls, learn what combat strategy to use against different monsters and people, and as you don’t have many upgraded abilities. Once you get into the groove of things and start upgrading your character, weapons, and armor, it becomes quite easy, in my opinion. On my current playthrough, I’m playing on the hardest difficulty and it’s made the game even more fun. The early game is extremely tough, especially since meditating (in game waiting) doesn’t replenish lost health (which it does in the easier difficulties). But once you get start building your character, it becomes easier and less frustrating while still maintaining enough difficulty to keep combat interesting. On the easier difficulty by mid-game I found myself consistently fighting monsters 10+ levels above me, simply because I could. On the hardest difficulty I would get my face stomped in if I did that. It keeps the combat exciting. If I were to give a suggestion, I would recommend playing on the second hardest difficulty on your first playthrough. RPG Aspects (Character leveling, abilities, crafting, etc.): 10/10 Trust me, there are enough RPG elements to keep you interested for the long haul. What I loved about the character leveling is when you reach a certain level (not sure which), the experience needed to get Geralt to the next level is capped at 2000 XP points. So instead of leveling up quickly at the beginning of the game and grinding for a bazillion XP points to increase one level in the later game, it allows you to continue leveling up throughout the game. We all know that slight feeling of excitement when you hit a new character level. This allows for you to keep experiencing that throughout the entire game. There are three main areas to spend your ability points: combat, signs, and alchemy. Each area has 5 sub-areas to spend points on. For example, in the combat tree you can spend points on upgrading fast attack, heavy attack, your crossbow, adrenaline points, and combat defense. You won’t have enough ability points to upgrade them all, which helps the replayability factor. In my first playthrough I wielded light armor and primarily used fast attacks (as light armor offers benefits to fast attack). In my current playthrough I am wielding heavy armor and primarily using heavy attacks (heavy armor benefits heavy attacks). It lets you play the game in an entirely different way. As far as crafting, I don’t even want to venture a guess on how many armor, weapon, bomb, oil, and potion recipes there are. Hundreds upon hundreds. Heck, you can even craft the ingredients that you need to craft the items. You’ll just have to take my word for it that you won’t be disappointed in a lack of crafting. *** Overall: 10/10 In an age where game developers are pushing out broken content once a year to maximize revenue, it’s refreshing and I appreciate that CD Projekt Red took the time and spent the money to develop a game that is truly one of the best ever released. If you don’t believe me, Google “Witcher 3 reviews” and check out the scores that is was given from gaming websites that criticize games to their bone. In fact, Gamestop awarded Witcher 3 a perfect score, making it one of 9 games EVER to receive that honor. I can’t gush enough about this game. Years from now I will look back on this game as one of the select few to make my personal list of “favorite games ever.” CD Projekt Red has gained another follower and I will most certainly be anxiously their next release. Do yourself a favor and pick up your copy as soon as possible.

Awesome game, I couldn't be happier with the purchase. Extremely in depth story line and plenty of side quests to keep you busy in the meantime. I was a huge skyrim and oblivion fan and this might be even better than those. The gameplay is much more strategic and it took some getting use to at first. Gameplay is challenging, which is a good thing, and often times you have to die to a boss several times before you figure out there movement and attack patterns and how to beat them properly. You also need to prepare and for big boss fights by crafting different potions and oils to help you in the fight. The non-linear aspect of the game is also really cool. Depending on how you interact in conversations with other characters can affect quests that you get and events that happen in the game. There are a few things that bug me. While the non-linear aspect of the story is cool, it also leads to some quests being impossible to complete depending on the order you do things. For example, If you finish the baron questline before beating him in gwent then you can't go get his unique reward card or finish the collect em all quest. This happens fairly early in the game and at that point I didn't care about gwent or really know how to play so I just figured I would do it later. Well now that I know how to play gwent and got into the questline I will never be able to fully complete it because of this. Kind of a bummer but I am not going to restart my game to finish one quest and collect one card. The other thing that bugs me (pun intended) are the bugs in the game! I have experienced numerous crashes and several load failures. I have even had to hard reset my xbobx one several times to get the game to work. Overall the cons very heavily outweigh the pros. If you like open world RPGs, I think this is possibly the best one available.

The Witcher 3 is a fantastically dense game that took me over 100 hours (possibly even 200) just to beat because it constantly distracts you with very well thought out side quests in its highly immersive world. The combat is incredibly responsive and precise with numerous ways to approach battle. The monster contracts particularly stand out and I found myself leveling up just to play through them. The story itself challenges you with decisions that are never black and white and have unforeseeable consequences that play out brilliantly. Every choice has consequences and they are usually not good, so get used to choosing the lesser of two evils. My only gripe really is that the game introduces quite a few characters that were barely (if at all) mentioned in the previous two games yet they are incredibly important to Geralt's life. I'm particularly referring to the most important character of the story, Ciri, as well as Geralt's love, Yennifer. I grew to like and care for them almost immediately though due to the phenomenal writing. It is very refreshing to play a game such as this with such sharp and clever dialogue that I haven't seen in a video game. I experienced a few bugs during my playthrough, but nothing earth-shattering. They were usually just texture or sound glitches. It would occasionally annoy but only because the soundtrack is so good. When I first started the game I had a really hard time getting used to the combat and was completely confused by the oils and potions. Making it to the end though, it is incredible how everything flows and makes complete sense in combat. It really is a game you must grow into. The dark and mature story is also refreshing as is the not so goody two shoes protagonist. Overall, it is one of the best and most complex RPG's I have ever played. Too bad it is Geralt's last adventure because he went out on one hell of a high note.

Envió: Se pidió el día 16 de octubre por la tarde y llego solo 4 dias después , muy rápido para un productor que es vendido y enviado por Amazon EUA. Embalaje: Venía en un sobre y dentro papel de burbujas, creo que deberían mejorar un poco aquí ya que por el manejo a veces los discos terminan por salirse de donde estan y andan sueltos en la cajita pudiéndose rayar. Funcionamiento: El juego fue un para mi hermano y parece que no le gustan tanto por lo cual no lo ha jugado mucho, yo ya lo pase para ps4 y esta genial si te gustan este tipo de juegos con historias profundas . Precio: Al momento de la compra fue una verdadera ganga de 250 pesos, comparado con lo que te brinda el juego. Veredicto: Si te gustan los juegos con trama , sorpresas, mundos abiertos y muchas cosas por hacer , este es tu juego ampliamente recomendable

Ha venido perfecto a España. Por cierto por si lo necesitais saber. No viene en español de españa..viene en español latinoamericano. He mirado con mi version de ps4 y apenas se nota...alguna palabra en concreto pero poco mas. Le quito una estrella porque queria devolverlo antes de que viniera porque pensaba que no vendría en ninguna version de español y pese a mis muchos intentos el vendedor no da señales de vida....y eso no me gusta.

Great game!

Increíble precio lo compre desde México fue exportado y llegó en buen tiempo además estaba bien protegido el paquete, el juego es excelente increíbles gráficos, increíble el mapa súper grande con infinidad de misiones hay juego para rato recomendado...

My granddaughter loves it. It was a long time coming but I’m satisfied.