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Post by Steve Farrelly @ 08:33am 23/02/11 | 7 Comments
As promised (though slightly belated due to a bit of illness), here's our hands-on impressions of CDProjekt RED's The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, as played by yours truly recently out at an exclusive event in London town.

The hands-on demo was largely locked to a single side-mission, with a nice chunk of narrative that we've decided to avoid for those of you who like your previews spoiler-free (we're looking at you, rest of the games industry press). I do, however, go into detail regarding controls, combat, environments and more, for those of you wondering how this plays in the wake of the first game.

Click here for the full preview.


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Enska
Posted 11:01am 23/2/11
Hell yes, just in time for my bday.
Steve, thoughts on if the engine will hold its own against Bethesda's?
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 11:24am 23/2/11
Enska, I'll be seeing Skyrim in a couple weeks time so will probs do a comparison piece then, but from what I've seen and played so far. It holds up VERY well ;)
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Reverend Evil™
Posted 11:31am 23/2/11
Think I'll give it a miss. The first Witcher's PC controls were complete ass and I'm not convinced they can make them better with the sequel. I guess I've been spoiled by WoW's perfect 3rd person controls. They just work flawlessly and I really find it hard why most companies can't get it right.
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Scooter
Posted 11:39am 23/2/11
Once you've been playing with a certain control setup for the last 8 years. Anything different, better or worse, is going to feel and control like complete ass.

Though the Witcher was pretty much balls for a few hours until you got use to it.
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Crakaveli
Posted 03:55pm 23/2/11
Steve, how was the Voice acting? In the first game some of it is pretty bad and was really the only problem i had with it.

Even still i loved the first Witcher and this one is shaping up to be awesome.
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Shroud
Posted 05:58pm 23/2/11
I hated Witcher PC controls at first, but once I got used to it & the combat system, it rocked.

I dont want every single game to cop WoW's 3rd person controls or every game will feel like WoW with a new skin. :)
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 03:52am 24/2/11
It controls very well - nothing like the first game, it's standard third-person controls now; very pick-up-and-play
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