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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition

Compared to the initial award winning PC release, the Xbox 360 edition will feature lots of new and exciting content. Additional hours of gameplay for the Xbox 360: New major adventures set in previously…

90 17 April 2012

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition is an adventure developed by CD Projekt RED, released 17 April 2012 on Xbox 360.

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What The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition is

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2012. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Xbox 360 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by CD Projekt Red, based on The Witcher series of fantasy novels authored by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is a sequel to the 2007 game, The Witcher and the second main installment in The Witcher's video game series. It was released for Windows, Xbox 360, OS X, and Linux.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Witcher series

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition is the tenth of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. The next entry was The Witcher: Adventure Game in 2014. Its critic score of 90 is 8 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.

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How it was received

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition launched on 17 April 2012, within three weeks of The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, The Walking Dead and Fire Emblem Awakening. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, The Walking Dead, Fire Emblem Awakening.

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When did The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition come out?
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition was released on 17 April 2012 for Xbox 360.

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