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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon I almost committed suicide after the intro level, but this was a genuinely good game, with impressive depth and a great "feel".
If you think Diablo is the greatest "role playing game" ever, then this won't be your cuppa, but on the other hand, if you regularly use words with more than 5 letters in them, this is a must-buy. Second best PC game of 2007 (after Bioshock) and it only gets an 8.1 score? I'm disappointed. You've let me down, you've let your readers down but most of all, you've let yourself down.
I want you to sit there and think about what you've done. *shun* I got too bored after the first hour and haven't gone back to it. Also found the sexism graited me a bit.
Maybe I should give it another go, although I assume the role of women in the game hasn't improved. I think not including Sexism in this game would be like not including Geralt as the lead character.
The novels and short stories this game is based on covers, politics, sex, rape, murder, sexism, racism and many other moral situations that happen in real life.
This is what makes the game so great!
Geralt's most challenging opponents in the game are mainly women too! You really want to have a game which is politically correct? Which shies away from reality, from real life behaviour? It's exactly this that stops games from being taken seriously - we have tons of violence yet can't handle mature topics it seems.
It's refreshing to have a game feel like it contains current topics even if they're disguised.
Personally, 81% is still at least 5% too low for this game. Especially when repetitive overhyped mediocrity like Spore gets a lot more. But at least it's no 67% which was the original score. Ah, well. What worries me actually is that this game still is underrated by you (not too much but still), what's more I made some research and found out that we have already four reviews of this game written by guys from PCG (at CVG, but also at Gamesradar, Eurogamer and of course PCG itself), each with nearly the same approach. The game really deserves much better. I don't get it, so it's cool enough but not as cool as greatly overhyped Spore or new Crysis?
Shame on you. In my book, it was a 9.1 game,
Except now, after all the things that have gone into the EE to 'improve immersion', they still did not allow for walking in the OST view. This means, in my book, this is only an 8.5 game now. Because adding all the things to make this game more immersive has just made the non-walking stand out even more!
Running around in an inn immersive? I think not!
Doing that little 'jog' every few steps to keep up with an NPC walking - totally un-immersive!
So all the time and money they spent making this game 'more immersive' has just been a waste - because they haven't added one line of code to allow Geralt to walk - like in every single RPG ever written throughout time! I take it you're being ironic humorguy because a walk key is hardly that big a deal. I don't think I ever even looked for one - are you sure there isn't one? There isn't one, but I cant remember one time I've ever needed to use it ...
Its hardly enough to mark a game down for. I'm glad to see this game has so few supporters. It may be better than the first hour suggests but I can't face going back to it- it's the worst thing I've bought in a long time and the product of a withered imagination. I couldn't bring myself to play it long enough to see the racism but I really don't think you address the embedded sexism of cyberspace with more and bigger breasts, sported by evil sorceresses.
Even the swordplay stinks- he runs around with it hanging down his back- ludicrous. Anyone who likes this muck and claims Spore was overhyped has no women in their life and never will. I have a women in my life. Spore was overhyped.
The game brings the novels and short stories to life very well, unless you have read the books you would not understand. Geralt has a sword on his back for a reason, if you had played the game for longer you would understand why he does that, and why he carries a silver and a steel sword.
Play it all the way through, and then tell me its a poor game You may not think walking is important, but a modder made something to allow walking and has got 100's of 'thanks' on the forums! If walking is no big deal, why bother with sneaking then? Why bother with having thief characters in games? Every heard of a sneaky character that ran everywhere?
For the people above that say walking is not important, I just say you can't really be RPG'ers. | 
