The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Reviews
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It's easy to lose yourself in the experience of The Witcher 2. Geralt's role as detective, exterminator, and hand of justice is just flexible enough to accommodate all types of role-players. Choices peppered about the game let players nudge his performance toward the poles of self-interest and honor. And yet in spite of multiple paths and endings, you're still neck-deep in Witcher 2's cruel world. It isn't a terrible place to be.
GameShard goes for a perfect 10/10:
The Witcher 2 is a rare gem: A role-playing game that isn't afraid to let you make choices and force you to live with the consequences, a PC-exclusive title that makes the best of its platform, an adult game in which the elements earning it that title aren't the mere presence of buckets of blood and bouncing breasts, but the very nature of the story itself. The Witcher 2 could well be the most important RPG since Planescape: Torment. And its certainly the best.
Beefjack gives it an 8.0/10:
It's a solid action-RPG with moments of visual excellence you won't see on any other format. But the detail is largely window dressing, and the story takes a back seat to the pyrotechnics. The Witcher 2 is memorable, but largely in the way the latest Hollywood blockbuster can be memorable. Even when you're gasping at the explosions, you can't get rid of the nagging suggestion that there are better ways you could be spending your time, and that a couple of days later you'll be wondering what all the fuss was about.
And then Gamer Gaia goes for a 9.5/10:
Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a masterpiece of computer roleplaying games. It is not a God like Baldur's Gate, but that is solely because it is not the first of its kind. If you are a roleplaying lover and have an interest in realistic, dark settings, this game is your gem. I don't know what Skyrim will do, but I crown Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings as the King! All hail the King!
