The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is truly an incredible masterpiece – minor design issues and technical flaws may keep it from being perfect, but The Witcher 3 will go down as one of the greatest games of the generation.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is truly an incredible masterpiece - minor design issues and technical flaws may keep it from being perfect, but The Witcher 3 will go down as one of the greatest games of the generation.

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Critic Reviews for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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36% of scored reviews fell within the range of 86 to 92 / 100

Vince Ingenito (IGN)

9.3/10

“Massive in size, and meticulously detailed, The Witcher 3 ends Geralt’s story on a high note.”

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Shaun Prescott (PC Gamer)

92/100

“A big, beautiful, sprawling action RPG full of rich stories, and suffused with an oppressive darkness.”

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Tom Senior (GamesRadar+)

4/5 stars

“Sloppy combat and ongoing optimisation can’t quite spoil this dark fantasy adventure, set in a stunning world of blood and black magic.”

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
ACG	Jeremy Penter	Recommended	05-18-2015	Video Review	Read review
Arcade Sushi	Luke Brown	9 / 10	05-21-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a massive and ambitious game, bursting at the seams with content. It's a remarkable adventure, marred by its fair share of flaws.	Read review
Attack of the Fanboy	Emily Speight	4.5 / 5 stars	05-23-2015	It's a sprawling, ambitious, beautiful representation of a dark fantasy world, and games like this don't come along often. By no means perfect, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt still one of the year's biggest and best releases.	Read review
AusGamers	Steve Farrelly	10 / 10	05-13-2015	The most stunning open-world ever created	Read review
CGMagazine	Wayne Santos	8.5 / 10	05-24-2015	The Witcher III has a compelling plot, combined with some old school, complex game systems that encourage exploration, crafting and experimentation.	Read review
Cheat Code Central	Matt Walker	4.5 / 5 stars	05-20-2015	Even with these complaints, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the best RPGs I have ever experienced in gaming. There's so much to this adventure, you'd be missing out on a great experience if you pass it up. It's absolutely perfect for the current gaming drought, but even if it had hit with a handful of other triple A titles, I would still stand by this being the best game of the year so far, and it's going to be a tough one to beat.	Read review
COGconnected	Trevor Houston	90 / 100	05-25-2015	There is no question The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt delivers a superb 'Triple A' RPG experience. Featuring some of the best story telling we have seen so far this year and an unforgettable, dynamic and vast open world, Witcher 3 stands as a must own for not only fans of the franchise but those looking for rich experience they can soak 100+ hours into.	Read review
ComiConverse	Alan Stock	5 / 5 stars	09-04-2016	The finest RPG in many years, with a vast open world that truly feels alive. Highly polished in every area and stuffed full of quality content, this game sets a new benchmark for the genre.	Read review
Critical Hit	Alessandro Barbosa	9.5 / 10	05-25-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an impeccable role-playing game, and one of the finest games ever created. Whether it's as large as tracking the Wild Hunt or as small as delivering a love letter, The Witcher 3 makes Geralt's actions count in the most incredible ways	Read review
Cubed3	Albert Lichi	8 / 10	06-08-2015	In a game where the action mechanics are roughly 65% of the game's core gameplay, it is important to get these basic parts right and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt tragically fumbles. Good controls are the foundation of a quality game and anyone expecting good action here would be best to just put this white wolf out of his misery and bury him.	Read review
Cultured Vultures	Darryl Edge	7.5 / 10	10-15-2019	The Witcher 3 is still an astounding game to be celebrated, but even if it's one of the console's considerably better ports, the Nintendo Switch version really isn't the way to experience Wild Hunt.	Read review
Darkstation	Garland Pan	5 / 5 stars	10-14-2019	As a landmark title that other games have trouble matching even now, The Witcher 3 flourishes on the Nintendo Switch. With an immense amount of absolutely engaging content, a meaningful narrative, and a meticulously designed world to explore, there’s no doubt about the quality of the game.	Read review
DarkZero	Dominic Sheard	10 / 10	07-04-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is more than just an incredible game that successfully brings lush visuals, tactical combat and a captivating world untainted with the issues that games of similar nature have when building such huge open spaces. It is also a respectful closure for Geralt, the series and its fans. Not only is the world a phenomenal character, but the narrative, the fleshed out side content and the character building weaved into this adventure are all purely excellent. With the consequences of morality playing a big part in the outcome of Geralt's adventure, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sets a new bar for video game writing, and will have players sharing tales of their adventure – in one of the best role-playing games released – for many months to come.	Read review
Destructoid	Chris Carter	8 / 10	05-12-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a huge step up from its predecessor, mostly because it manages to tell a more compelling and personal tale. At the same time, that intimate feel is juxtaposed against a gigantic, sprawling open-world adventure that may hit some snags along the way but still comes out on top.	Read review
Digital Chumps	Eric Layman	9 / 10	06-09-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an exhibition of lessons learned not only from CD Projeckt RED's past work, but also from a spectrum of open-world and role-playing contemporaries. It's expected for games of this nature to excel at taking your time away. What's most impressive about The Witcher 3 is that rarely seems to waste it.	Read review
Digital Spy	Liam Martin	5 / 5 stars	05-19-2015	Fighting monsters, gathering information and carrying out side quests can be a slow process, but then The Witcher 3 isn't a game you'll want to rush.	Read review
Digital Trends	Will Fulton	4 / 5 stars	06-02-2015	The Witcher 3 is enormously ambitious, and a monumental game that engulfed us from start to finish.	Read review
Digitally Downloaded	Matt S.	4.5 / 5 stars	05-24-2015	CD Projekt Red's game is a blockbuster in every sense of the word, and it's hard to imagine a world where there's a bigger or more impressive blockbuster at work in the background that hasn't even been announced yet but will still release in 2015. With that in mind, while I'm sure that Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed title is going to be a big improvement on last year's, and EA and Activision both have excellent shooters to release by Christmas, with Zelda on the Wii U being pushed to next year I'm quite comfortable with calling this now: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is going to be the blockbuster game of the year. It's not the most artful, the most intelligent, or the most important, but it's certainly going to be the most spectacular. And I know for a lot of players out there, the spectacle is all that matters.	Read review
DualShockers	Giuseppe Nelva	9.5 / 10	05-18-2015	While I ride, fight, smile, cry and love as Geralt of Rivia, I'm happy to be a gamer. I truly am.	Read review
Echo Boomer	David Fialho	Recommended	10-21-2019	To everyones surprise, the Nintendo Switch can run The Witcher 3, with a great package full of content for those who seek the adventures of a witcher on-the-go.	Read review
EGM	Andrew Fitch	9.5 / 10	06-01-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is far more than a fantasy role-playing game. It's an amazingly fleshed-out world that rewards careful, thoughtful exploration. CD Projekt RED didn't just deliver on their promise to craft an open world worthy of author Andrzej Sapkowski's lore—they greatly exceeded it.	Read review
Eurogamer	Oli Welsh	Recommended	05-17-2015	It will last you months, yet not waste your time. Above all, it has a vivid, enduring personality, something that is exceedingly rare among its breed of mega-budget open-world epics (and that will probably be rarer still once Hideo Kojima and Konami part ways later this year). For my money, it's the greatest role-playing game in years.	Read review
Fextralife	Castielle	9 / 10	06-06-2015	It incorporates so many different elements from so many games that it stands alone as it its own unique sub-genre. CDPR really created a masterpiece with this game, and while the combat can be a bit lacking at times and the controls are just frankly frustrating, they aren't enough of a blemish in the slightest to keep me from recommending this game to anyone.	Read review
Forbes	Erik Kain	9 / 10	07-12-2015	All told, I give the game a Buy in my Buy/Hold/Sell ranking. For all its flaws—and I realize that I've listed many—it is one of the most sprawling, magnificent solo RPGs ever made. It does too little to fix its mechanical problems, and focuses too much on creating an open world, but the quality of its quest design, world-building, and wonderful (if too large) cast of characters makes it a game that no RPG fan should miss.	Read review
Game Debate	Stuart Thomas	9.5 / 10	05-30-2015	I'm still far from the end. I will check in with further thoughts as I progress, but at this point I can unhesitatingly recommend the Witcher III as yet another on the crammed top shelf of excellent RPGs we've seen in the past 18 months. Buy it, buy it, buy it.	Read review
Game Informer	Kimberley Wallace	9.8 / 10	05-12-2015	With superb storytelling, challenging combat, exciting choices, and unpredictable consequences, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a must-play RPG	Read review
Game Rant	Christopher Gates	4.5 / 5 stars	05-29-2015	'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' is far from perfect, but despite its flaws, Geralt's final adventure is 2015's strongest candidate for Game of the Year so far.	Read review
Game Revolution	Jonathan Leack	3.5 / 5 stars	05-19-2015	Early on in the adventure it's easy to feel captivated by the sheer scale of it all, but as its shortcomings come to light the attention that it worked so hard to capture can become lost.	Read review
GameCrate	Nicholas Scibetta	8.8 / 10	05-15-2015	If you're at all a fan of action RPGs and big open worlds, you'll find a lot to love in The Witcher 3.	Read review
Gamefa	Amirmehdi Namjoo	9 / 10	10-23-2019	After about 4 years, The Witcher 3 is still a great RPG game. The amount of content in this game is simply huge. This amount of content, along with deep gameplay mechanics, astounding visual art and dulcet music coupled with epic tracks make this game fantastic. The Switch port is a technical achievement for the developers and also looks good if you want to play in handheld mode, but it has some notable differences with other platforms that especially make the game, not the best option. If you need the portability of Switch for this game, then don’t hesitate and buy it, but for playing this on a TV or monitor, I suggest going with other platforms	Read review
GameGrin	Steven John Dawson	10 / 10	05-27-2015	A huge open world, filled to the brim with life, death and everything in between. It truly is a sight to behold. CD Projekt Red have done great things with this title and RPGs all-round should take note.	Read review
Gameplanet	James Cullinane	10 / 10	05-14-2015	The Witcher 3 is a superb example of world building and an instant classic in the RPG genre. Even the odd bug and some meat-and-potato systems can't hold CD Projekt's latest back from full marks.	Read review
Gamers Heroes	Johnny Hurricane	9 / 10	06-22-2015	The Witcher 3 does have some minor flaws but ultimately is a game every RPG fan should play this year. This game is easily going to be a contender for Game Of The Year in 2015.	Read review
GamesBeat	Gavin Greene	88 / 100	05-11-2015	Playing The Witcher 3 with an eye for grand strategy can be both a densely engrossing and mechanically frustrating, overlong adventure. When played one move at a time, however, Wild Hunt is the supreme alchemical distillation of the role-playing experience. It's a bleakly human play at the heart of a dark fantasy.	Read review
GameSkinny	Elijah Beahm	9 / 10	09-15-2015	If you liked Witcher and Witcher 2, then Witcher 3 will not disappoint. Even if you didn't like the first two games, this one is a cut above it's predecessors.	Read review
GameSpot	Kevin VanOrd	10 / 10	05-11-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the best games ever made.	Read review
GamesRadar+	Tom Senior	4 / 5 stars	05-12-2015	Sloppy combat and ongoing optimisation can't quite spoil this dark fantasy adventure, set in a stunning world of blood and black magic.	Read review
GameWatcher	Chris Capel	9.6 / 10	05-29-2015	Those niggles aside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an absolute triumph and the best open-world RPG around, maybe even the best altogether. The main story stays interesting, the side-stories are better than the main plots from most entire games, the characters and writing are wonderful, and the acting is massively improved from the last two games.	Read review
GameZone	Mike Splechta	9.5 / 10	06-08-2015	The world and characters come to life in CDPR's conclusion to The Witcher trilogy. A few minor bugs can't ruin what is otherwise a masterful game. If only the combat was slightly better	Read review
Gaming Nexus	Travis Huinker	9.8 / 10	06-04-2015	From its engrossing world to its compelling narrative and characters, The Witcher 3 is one of the best games in years. The Witcher 3 is a must-own for role-playing genre fans—and gamers in general. The experience shouldn't be missed.	Read review
GamingBolt	Ravi Sinha	10 / 10	05-27-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lives up to and surpasses the hype, delivering an excellent experience that won't be forgotten any time soon.	Read review
GamingTrend	Eric Van Allen	95 / 100	07-08-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ends Geralt's tale in spectacular fashion, finding ways to fill a giant world with thrilling combat, beautiful sights, and a bevy of compelling content. A strong conclusion to The Witcher trilogy, and a masterpiece that will keep you enthralled for weeks and months to come.	Read review
GBAtemp	Mike Wheaty	9.6 / 10	06-03-2015	The Witcher 3 is downright the best game I've played in recent years. I can't say any reason why a person should skip the game. As the few bugs here and there have mostly been fixed, the gameplay can go forward for hundreds of hours. For the $60 you pay for the game, you will gain immense value and other developers should take note.	Read review
Geeks Under Grace	Maurice Pogue	9.7 / 10	06-29-2015	Why are you reading this review instead of playing this masterpiece ? Tsk, at this rate, you'll never beat it! Witcher 3 is the kind of game that we will be speaking of fondly alongside the likes of FFVII, FFT, and Baldur's Gate 2.	Read review
Guardian	Simon Parkin	5 / 5 stars	05-12-2015	This vast fantasy adventure combines sophisticated storytelling with an expansive and richly conceived world	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Matt Whittaker	5 / 5 stars	05-23-2015	2015's largest game to date is its best so far, as the marriage of seemingly endless open-world content and engaging storytelling make The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a superlative experience. From rounds of the in-game card game Gwent to its robust crafting and alchemy systems, those who are looking for the all of the minutia that comes from a deep western role-playing experience will find it here in droves.	Read review
IGN	Vince Ingenito	9.3 / 10	05-12-2015	Massive in size, and meticulously detailed, The Witcher 3 ends Geralt's story on a high note.	Read review
IGN Italy	Gianluca Loggia	9.1 / 10	05-12-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt isn't perfect (yet?), but it's one of the best written RPG ever.	Read review
Impulsegamer	Andrew Bistak	5 / 5 stars	05-12-2015	The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt is one of the best RPG's that I have ever played and after the previous game, I really didn't know what to expect because that game was so good. This game has got characters that you actually care about, a story that is very engaging from the get go and almost flawless gaming mechanics. The combat system works well, especially the varied enemies that you face as you attempt to locate your ward Ciri before The Wild Hunt finds her.	Read review
Kill Screen	Chris Breault	87 / 100	06-09-2015	Comparison to The Witcher 3 would embarrass almost any RPG. It excels at everything most games suck at, from comic timing to narrative follow-through. It has the most expressive faces, the best drunken banter, the funniest throwaway gags, the most casual sex, and the deftest camera movements. But its best trick is to mold narrative from the materials that games have lately used as a sort of flavorless stuffing. In almost every side-quest and monster-hunting contract you undertake, there are telltale signs of someone at CD Projekt Red actually giving a s.	Read review
Kotaku	Kirk Hamilton	Recommended	05-19-2015	A hell of a way to spend a few days of your life.	Read review
Luis Alamilla	Luis Alamilla	8 / 10	10-16-2019	Video Review	Read review
Metro GameCentral	Roger Hargreaves	9 / 10	05-11-2015	A colossal achievement in technical terms, with a level of interaction with the game world and its inhabitants that is unsurpassed in modern video games.	Read review
MMORPG.com	William Murphy	9 / 10	05-29-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a stupendous achievement for CD Projekt Red.	Read review
MonsterVine	Diego Escala	5 / 5 stars	06-02-2015	Even though we've still got half a year left to go, The Witcher 3 is one of those games that you just instantly know will be one of the best damn games of the year. Despite some minor technical issues on consoles it's still a phenomenal game and one of the best RPGs in recent years.	Read review
MSPoweruser	Aaron Potter	8 / 10	10-13-2019	It’s easy to see how players would prefer the convenience of undertaking Geralt’s journey on the go, either from the very beginning or as someone who missed out on Hearts of Stone or Blood and Wine and are craving a way to jump in right away. Switcher 3 is the ultimate fantasy RPG and the ultimate in convenience.	Read review
New Game Network	Tim Reid	91 / 100	06-06-2015	The Witcher 3 is an incredible achievement by CD Projekt Red, with a huge world to explore, seemingly endless hand-crafted quests and a central story that holds the experience together marvelously.	Read review
Niche Gamer	Carl Batchelor	9.5 / 10	05-28-2015	And for me, this is one of the most complete and fulfilling RPG experiences I've ever had.	Read review
NZGamer	Hadyn Green	8.5 / 10	05-18-2015	We're still left with a good RPG, but one that's held back somewhat by tedious quest design and an overreliance on sexist cliches.	Read review
Paste Magazine	Drew Toal	9 / 10	06-04-2015	Witcher 2 was a promising but flawed game. The seeds of a truly brilliant experience were there, but too often it turned into a slog. The Wild Hunt fulfills all of that game's promise and more. Some day, I even hope to finish it.	Read review
PC Gamer	Shaun Prescott	92 / 100	05-21-2015	A big, beautiful, sprawling action RPG full of rich stories, and suffused with an oppressive darkness.	Read review
PC Invasion	Tim McDonald	8 / 10	11-04-2015	I've made it pretty clear that it's hardly a flawless game, but that doesn't change the fact that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is something pretty bloody special and you should absolutely play it.	Read review
PCGamesN	Fraser Brown	9 / 10	05-26-2015	Perhaps The Witcher 3 could have done with another month or so of extra development to work out the kinks, but even without the extra time it's an enormously impressive game that proves, in case there was any doubt, that gargantuan games don't need to be stuffed with forgettable filler guff. Any worries that, by making the game open world, CD Projekt Red were just following popular trends should be set aside, because The Witcher 3 dances to its own tune. There isn't an RPG like it out there, not even its predecessors, and its uniqueness should be treasured.	Read review
PCMag	Gabriel Zamora	4.5 / 5 stars	05-28-2015	The combination of satisfying combat, excellent story, and open-world exploration makes The Witcher 3 the best in the series, and one of the best games released this year.	Read review
PCWorld	Hayden Dingman	5 / 5 stars	06-05-2015	The Witcher 3 is probably the best open-world RPG ever made, but it still falls prey to some of the genre's worst traps.	Read review
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	Max Parker	8.8 / 10	06-09-2015	Video Review	Read review
Player.it	Unknown	10 / 10	05-27-2020	A more than appreciable technical sector, a stratospheric soundtrack that I often find myself listening to separately, as well as the REDengine, the same engine used for The Witcher 2 and developed by the same CD Projekt RED, contribute to bring on our screens an unforgettable gaming experience, which currently, five years after its release, is still the reference standard against which we compare story-driven videogames, whether we like it or not.	Read review
PlayStation LifeStyle	Chandler Wood	9.5 / 10	05-18-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is truly an incredible masterpiece. The writing and building of the world alone should be lauded as some of the best in video games. Stories weave in and out of one another surprisingly. The consequences of every decision are far reaching and unpredictable while also making complete sense once they happen. The world is organic, dangerous, and fun to explore. There is a true sense of reward and accomplishment. While minor design choices keep it from being absolutely perfect, The Witcher 3 will go down as one of the best games of this generation of consoles.	Read review
PlayStation Universe	Kyle Prahl	9.5 / 10	05-31-2015	A masterclass in open-world game design, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt packs every pixel of its gorgeous world with compelling fiction and believable, satisfying role-playing.	Read review
Polygon	Arthur Gies	8 / 10	05-12-2015	The Witcher 3 is a great game — with some major qualifications	Read review
Push Square	Robert Ramsey	10 / 10	05-18-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sets a new standard for open world RPGs. Its shockingly cohesive world is as beautiful as it is demanding, and it's packed full of mature content that throws you from one emotional response to the next. Its storytelling is superb, its combat is grippingly refined, and its often unforgiving nature only lends itself to a brilliantly rewarding experience. In an industry that's flooded with so many by-the-book open world titles, Wild Hunt stands out as a true labour of love from a developer that's uncompromisingly passionate about its creative freedom. Geralt's incredible adventure is nothing short of a masterpiece.	Read review
Reno Gazette-Journal	Jason Hidalgo, Cameron Duren	9 / 10	05-23-2015	From its expansive world to its improved combat, Witcher 3 hits all the right spots for an action RPG and gives you a richer experience the more you put into it. It's not just one of the best games so far this year, it's one of the best games released period.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Richard Cobbett	Recommended	05-29-2015	It's a flawed masterpiece, but make no mistake, it absolutely is a masterpiece – one of the best RPGs ever created, and a true tribute to Sapkowski's stories.	Read review
SelectButton	Kevin Mitchell	10 / 10	06-02-2015	Since the initial reveal trailer back in 2013 CD Projekt RED promised to deliver a truly next-generation open-world experience with	Read review
Shacknews	Josh Hawkins	9 / 10	05-27-2015	The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is a masterfully written rollercoaster, and though there is a lot to do in the game, I never felt overwhelmed by the Side Quests and optional tasks. CD Projekt Red has done a great job of bringing this saga to a close. The best part about all of this, however, is the fact that CD Projekt RED stayed true to its word. Every choice you make will determine how the story unfolds, and what the world becomes at the end of it all.	Read review
Sirus Gaming	Davrel	9.2 / 10	07-04-2015	Despite my minor complaints regarding the combat and the (massively inflated) controversy over the graphical downgrade, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a staggeringly accomplished game. The developers, CD Projeckt RED should be proud of what they've created. I just hope that others are paying attention.	Read review
Slant Magazine	Aaron Riccio	4.5 / 5 stars	05-21-2015	Experience is earned largely through quests, which highlights the emphasis on thoughtful storytelling over mindless bloodshed.	Read review
Softpedia	Andrei Dobra	9 / 10	05-21-2015	The Witcher 3 is a fitting end for the saga from CD Projekt Red. It's also the most accessible title in the series and manages to delight through most of its mechanics, especially the huge open world. While the main storyline doesn't exactly live up to expectations and it has quite a few smaller annoyances, it's still a blast to play and should offer hundreds of hours of enjoyment to any RPG fan.	Read review
TechRaptor	Andrew Otton	10 / 10	05-28-2015	The Witcher 3 is one of those games that both meets expectations in most areas and surpasses it in some, leaving behind one of those games that will have a huge impact on all of gaming.	Read review
Telegraph	Phill Cameron	5 / 5 stars	05-12-2015	The story of Wild Hunt is a personal one, set in a huge and unrelentingly beautiful world. And moving through it in that way makes you feel like a part of it, rather than an honoured guest, all eyes swung expectantly towards you.	Read review
The Angry Joe Show	Joe Vargas	10 / 10	06-05-2015	Video Review	Read review
The Digital Fix	Luciano Howard	10 / 10	06-09-2015	You'll not want it to end, just like you didn't want your very favourite RPGs of years-past to end either. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will sit in that list now. There isn't any higher praise.	Read review
The Jimquisition	Jim Sterling	8.5 / 10	05-19-2015	Had it not been mired by bizarre lapses in design and a plethora of disturbing problems, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt would be almost bloody perfect. As it stands, CD Projekt Red has still put together something downright delicious. A truly great game that rises its head above its own hot water to proudly present a prosperous experience that only the most deliriously expectant could feel shortchanged by.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Aran Suddi	9 / 10	05-22-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is easily one of the most engrossing games I've had the chance to play. The story and characters are well worth the experience alone, and the world expertly draws on the desire to explore with its massive scale. You never know what will greet you or beat you just a few seconds down the path, and that's what is exciting about this game. There are some issues that will need to be improved. The combat is better than the Witcher 2 but isn't quite there either, but The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the first game in a while that has held my attention for so long that I don't notice the time pass. CD Projekt Red haven't just created a great game but a modern gaming masterpiece.	Read review
ThisGenGaming	Kerwin Tsang	9 / 10	05-24-2015	The Witcher 3 still triumphs as one of the greatest RPGs ever made, largely on the strength of its complex characters and first rate storytelling. There is no shortage of narratives to uncover and activities to partake in that all feel unique and lack the canned, recycled feel that has plagued other open world games like Watch_Dogs, Far Cry 4 and Dying Light.	Read review
TrueAchievements	Jonathan Barnes	5 / 5 stars	06-03-2015	The quality and quantity of the content in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are beyond compare and without peer. It is now the gold standard to which all other RPGs will be held. With hundreds of hours of rich, detailed story, a plethora of side quests, incredible aesthetic design, deep combat systems, and unprecedented sense of place and character, it checks off all of the boxes for excellence in the genre. Those plaudits come at a price, though, as the game can be a technical grab bag of minor (and major) bugs and glitches. While there is little doubt that CD Projekt RED will be giving the game consistent patch and DLC support to smooth out the majority of these marks, you can only buff out the dents in the horrific control scheme so much. Fortunately, these technical gripes and moments of mechanical frustration are easy to overlook when examining the experience as a whole. This is a game that should not be missed by RPG fans, should be tried by curious gamers, and will be looked back upon as one of the best ever. Consider it a must play and say goodbye to your summer.	Read review
Twinfinite	Zhiqing Wan	5 / 5 stars	05-26-2015	It is a shining example of what RPGs should be: an experience that makes you believe that you're truly part of a game's world and that you have a very real stake in it. That's exactly what Wild Hunt has achieved here.	Read review
USgamer	Mike Williams	4.5 / 5 stars	05-21-2015	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt is probably one of the most well-crafted RPG worlds yet. As you wander the countryside, it feels like a real place filled with the real struggles of the beings that live there. Geralt's story is personal and quite grey; it's not about saving the world, it's about saving his surrogate family. Is it perfect? No, the combat is rote at times and the inventory and crafting needs work, but in the end, The Witcher III is a top-notch RPG experience.	Read review
VGChartz	Joseph Trotter	Recommended	06-23-2015	The high point for narrative-driven open-world RPGs	Read review
VideoGamer	Brett Phipps	9 / 10	05-11-2015	The Witcher 3 is vast, intriguing, and enthralling.	Read review
Washington Post	Christopher Byrd	Recommended	06-02-2015	What sets "The Witcher 3" apart from most of the competition is its keen sense of humanity, which is calculated to be every bit as gripping as an HBO drama. At their best, the characters with whom you chat don't seem like they live in a vacuum only to impart useful information.	Read review
We Got This Covered	Shaan Joshi	5 / 5 stars	06-02-2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt manages to constantly excite and amaze, with sublime storytelling and engrossing gameplay that never leaves you wanting more.	Read review

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The Witcher: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game set in a visually stunning fantasy universe full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher you play as the professional monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, tasked with finding a child of prophecy in a vast open world rich with merchant cities, viking pirate islands, dangerous mountain passes, and forgotten caverns to explore.

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