The first reviews for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have begun to surface and one thing is clear: reviewers are loving the game. If pre-orders are to go by, over a million people are clamoring for the game – this time around it feels like reviews from sites will only make fans more secure in their decision to pre-order the game.
Wild Hunt will be getting a Day One patch that promises to do a number of things and might address some of the bugs that reviewers encountered in the game. It seems that any bug encountered in the game was overshadowed by how great the game is.
Guess what? There's still one week until it releases.
Check out the reviews from around the web:
GameSpot
And make no mistake: this is one of the best role-playing games ever crafted, a titan among giants and the standard-setter for all such games going forward. Where the Witcher 2 sputtered to a halt, The Witcher 3 is always in a crescendo, crafting battle scenarios that constantly one-up the last, until you reach the explosive finale and recover in the glow of the game's quiet denouement.
Gameinformer
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt encompasses what I hope is the future of RPGs. It stands out for its wonderful writing, variety of quests and things to do in the world, and how your choices have impact in interesting ways. Usually something is sacrificed when creating a world this ambitious, but everything felt right on cue. I still think about some of my choices and how intriguing they turned out – for better or worse.
IGN
Though the straightforward and fetch-quest-heavy main story overstays its welcome, the option of joyfully adventuring through a rich, expansive open world was always there for me when I’d start to burn out. Even if the plot isn’t terribly interesting, the many characters who play a part in it are, and along with the excellent combat and RPG gameplay, they elevate The Witcher 3 to a plane few other RPGs inhabit.
GameTrailers
After spending more than a 100 hours in the Witcher 3, we are still left with dozens of side-quests to complete, enormous tracks of land left to explore and monsters yet to fight.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a thoughtful, diverse and frequently awe inspiring adventure. Its stories are deep an satisfying, unafriad to touch on themes of personal character – presenting players with choices and consequences that aren't about turning into a hero or a villain. In the end it's simply one of the best RPGs ever made.
Kotaku
Wild Hunt is a grand adventure that feels distinctly of its time. It manages to set new standards for video game technology while accentuating the fleeting nature of technological achievement as an end unto itself. It is a worthy exploration of friendship and family, mixing scenes of great sorrow with scenes of ridiculous lustiness, tempering its melancholy with bright splashes of joy and merry monster guts.
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