RETROSPECTIVE THE WITCHER 2

The witcher 2 made RPGs dark and sordid before it was the cool thing to do

ROBERT ZAK

PUBLISHER CD PROJEKT /DEVELOPER CD PROJEKT RED /FORMAT XBOX 360 Going back to The Witcher 2 today should feel like a journey into the past. With its sequel and now the TV series turning Geralt into a sultry celebrity superhero it’s too easy to forget what came before. But what’s strange is that The Witcher 2 doesn’t feel archaic. In fact, it’s one of the best-aged games of its generation, straddling several styles of RPG in a way that may just make it timeless. Another fact that may surprise a few Xbox 360 owners who proudly touted The Witcher 2 as a standard bearer for the console was that it actually came out on PC first, in May 2011, before arriving on the 360 nearly a year later. Not only that, but…

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