The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition
All existing owners of The Witcher 2 received free upgrades to the Enhanced Edition, and could pre-load the update starting 11 April 2012. All new copies on PC and Xbox 360 shipped with the additional content…
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition is an adventure developed by CD Projekt RED, released 16 April 2012 on Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 18.6 hrs to finish.
What The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition is
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition is an adventure game developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2012. It was published by CD Projekt. It is available on Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on REDengine.
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.
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. There are 52 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Witcher series
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition is the ninth of 37 entries we hold in the The Witcher series. It arrived 11 months after The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Premium Edition. The next entry was The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Dark Edition in 2012. Its critic score of 88 is 6 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Free Next-Gen Update at 100.
How it was received
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 241 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 65 hrs, roughly 3.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel 2.2 GHz Dual-Core or AMD 2.5 GHz Dual-Core, 1.5 GB (Win XP), 2GB (Win Vista/Win 7) of RAM and GeForce 8800 (512 MB) or Radeon HD3850 (512 MB). Resolution: 1280x720.. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition launched on 16 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 1 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.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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