The Witcher 3 of course has quests that feature these jobs, but it becomes quickly evident that the majority of your side adventures are fully fleshed-out and well worth your time.Ī perfect example of this is one of the side quests early in the game called “Wild at Heart”. Our compulsory need to try and see and do everything leads to hours and hours of boredom in numerous fetch, gather, and kill quests with no heart in them at all. The trouble with huge open-world RPGs for the completion-minded gamer such as myself, is that side missions and alternate objectives become chores. This third entry into the series, and final of this trilogy as the developer has labeled it, continues – and in many aspects finalizes – a story that began in 2007 – one that will have taken the average gamer around 100 hours to complete. Witcher 3 provides all of these in abundance. Story, music and presentation are the factors that characterize my feelings on a game, and usually in that order of importance.

Despite any embroilment on misrepresentations, or perceived failures to achieve mythical levels of quality, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is just that: a masterpiece of the modern, open-world RPG genre and gaming in general. There are things to dislike about the title to be sure - bugs and issues with the controls that will both amuse and frustrate - things that, taken out of context, would prevent many a game from being labeled good, let alone being labeled a masterpiece. I was quite happy with the ending I received after pumping an estimated 80+ hours into the game. Whether they choose to continue the franchise – a topic they’ve become rather wishy-washy on over the last couple months – Wild Hunt feels like a satisfying conclusion to the story of Geralt.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the culmination of nearly 10 years of work from CD Projekt RED in Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s world of The Witcher. As close as both Microsoft and Sony’s consoles have become to PCs in architecture, they simply do not have the capabilities of a quality PC build, and thus these two aspects of the game could be markedly different experiences for other players on consoles or lower-end systems.

This Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review was played on a mid-high-range PC on an Ultra/High settings mix. Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One | Developer/Publisher: CD PROJEKT RED | ESRB: M | Controls: Keyboard/Mouse, Controller

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