The Witcher 2 Early Review In!!!

PC Format UK, has reviewed an early (pre-release) build of The Witcher 2.

Can't link it, as I'm viewing the actual the mag. To cut a long story short,the score is 92/100.

Summary: Involving Combat, Stupendous Visuals, Varied gaming.

It goes on to say; If the bugs are stamped out (awkward pathfinding), we've got a new king of role-playing to doff our caps to. Witcher 2 is vast, varied and challenging.

Not too bad at all, considering CD Project is still polishing the game. I for one can't wait for the 17th!!!

Flop? Early reviews always give full score to anticipated games

Flop? Early reviews always give full score to anticipated games

Zurrur

Flop? Early reviews always give full score to anticipated games

Zurrur

How can they review a preview build? It was just the first chapter.GeneralShowzer

Flop? Early reviews always give full score to anticipated games

Zurrur

Anyway, this review holds no weight at all, they are reviewing only 1/3 of a game, and a preview build no less where it's full with bugs and nothing is finalized.GeneralShowzer

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Anyway, this review holds no weight at all, they are reviewing only 1/3 of a game, and a preview build no less where it's full with bugs and nothing is finalized.JohnF111

A lot of games get this, people complain that games should be re-evaluated after patches and updates plus they are hardly going to play the game from start to finish on every difficulty setting while collecting every item and slaying every beast before deciding on how good a game is, does this mean that people who say "I played 2 hours and gave up" didn't do a thorough enough test and that their opinions are wrong?

Huh?

No...it means that this is far from the full finalized game and it's unprofessional to give a review of an early demo. That little message up there is present for this reason alone. See?

[QUOTE="Zurrur"]

Flop? Early reviews always give full score to anticipated games

GeneralShowzer

Anyway, this review holds no weight at all, they are reviewing only 1/3 of a game, and a preview build no less where it's full with bugs and nothing is finalized.GeneralShowzer

I never trust these early review.

I thought it was 5 chapters long? SAGE_OF_FIRE

[QUOTE="SAGE_OF_FIRE"]I thought it was 5 chapters long? lawlessx

The game will have three chapters plus prologue and epilogue. Chapters 2 and 3 will be entirely different depending on the players' choices.

[QUOTE="JohnF111"][QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Anyway, this review holds no weight at all, they are reviewing only 1/3 of a game, and a preview build no less where it's full with bugs and nothing is finalized.GeneralShowzer

A lot of games get this, people complain that games should be re-evaluated after patches and updates plus they are hardly going to play the game from start to finish on every difficulty setting while collecting every item and slaying every beast before deciding on how good a game is, does this mean that people who say "I played 2 hours and gave up" didn't do a thorough enough test and that their opinions are wrong?

Huh?

No...it means that this is far from the full finalized game and it's unprofessional to give a review of an early demo. That little message up there is present for this reason alone. See?

its only a preview build so not that conclusive, but the comments about the gameplay in the review look positive. :)

Its pretty sad how much faith we put in reviews really. The dev's last outing was strong, the game looks amazing and early previews have been stellar. What else do you need?

[QUOTE="Zurrur"]

Flop? Early reviews always give full score to anticipated games

GeneralShowzer

But why do you compare DA II to an RPG? :question:

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]

[QUOTE="JohnF111"]

A lot of games get this, people complain that games should be re-evaluated after patches and updates plus they are hardly going to play the game from start to finish on every difficulty setting while collecting every item and slaying every beast before deciding on how good a game is, does this mean that people who say "I played 2 hours and gave up" didn't do a thorough enough test and that their opinions are wrong?SkyWard20

Huh?

No...it means that this is far from the full finalized game and it's unprofessional to give a review of an early demo. That little message up there is present for this reason alone. See?

I think the first official review is supposed to be in the Polish Pc mag CD-Action. I may be wrong though.

This review is a sign for me to not trust "PC Format UK". Early reviews of a not yet released games (like this one) are far from being professional and bring no valuable information - no wonder that they gave a very high score to DA2 (95, I believe) while the general consensus among the gaming sites was that DA2 was far from being a great game or at least nowhere close DA:O... It just proves that they don't treat game journalism, game reviewing and even gamers seriously, and that they're just a bunch of damn lazybones only knowing how to take money for a badly done job.

This review is a sign for me to not trust "PC Format UK". Early reviews of a not yet released games (like this one) are far from being professional and bring no valuable information - no wonder that they gave a very high score to DA2 (95, I believe) while the general consensus among the gaming sites was that DA2 was far from being a great game or at least nowhere close DA:O... It just proves that they don't treat game journalism, game reviewing and even gamers seriously, and that they're just a bunch of damn lazybones only knowing how to take money for a badly done job.

herezjarchus

Its pretty sad how much faith we put in reviews really. The dev's last outing was strong, the game looks amazing and early previews have been stellar. What else do you need?

h575309

[QUOTE="herezjarchus"]

This review is a sign for me to not trust "PC Format UK". Early reviews of a not yet released games (like this one) are far from being professional and bring no valuable information - no wonder that they gave a very high score to DA2 (95, I believe) while the general consensus among the gaming sites was that DA2 was far from being a great game or at least nowhere close DA:O... It just proves that they don't treat game journalism, game reviewing and even gamers seriously, and that they're just a bunch of damn lazybones only knowing how to take money for a badly done job.

SkyWard20

PC Gamer UK, indeed made a similar review (although not early, but still written surprisingly fast after the game's release (on the same day actually)) and with score of 94. http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/08/dragon-age-2-review/

How can they review a preview build? It was just the first chapter.GeneralShowzer

CD Projekt Senior Producer Tomasz Gop stated during a live chat today that no media received full game so far so they could only have done a preview not a review.

By they way today CD Projekt sent gold master to production!

Scans:

http://i.imgur.com/7kkym.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XB1r8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BNWSf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kulsz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LFIhk.jpg

The game will have three chapters plus prologue and epilogue. Chapters 2 and 3 will be entirely different depending on the players' choices.

RyuRanVII

And there are eight different versions of epilogue, each one with two different endings.

Scans:

http://i.imgur.com/7kkym.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XB1r8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BNWSf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kulsz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LFIhk.jpg

[QUOTE="RyuRanVII"]

The game will have three chapters plus prologue and epilogue. Chapters 2 and 3 will be entirely different depending on the players' choices.

xqtr74

And there are eight different versions of epilogue, each one with two different endings.

[QUOTE="RyuRanVII"]

The game will have three chapters plus prologue and epilogue. Chapters 2 and 3 will be entirely different depending on the players' choices.

xqtr74

And there are eight different versions of epilogue, each one with two different endings.

Yes :) ...From what I've heard the game will have:

1 Prologue

5 Chapters (One 1st chapter, two 2nd chapters and two 3rd chapters)

8 Epilogues

But obviously we will visit only one from the 2nd and 3rd chapters and only one of the epilogues. If this confirms to be true, then it could be one of the best rpgs since long time.

Weird to review a preview copy, but I'm sure the game will rock.