The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Reviews

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is ranked in the 100th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
92 / 100
May 21, 2015

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

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9 / 10.0
May 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.

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May 21, 2015

Experience is earned largely through quests, which highlights the emphasis on thoughtful storytelling over mindless bloodshed.

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93 / 100
May 22, 2015

Already spectacular music and highly successful voiceovers are building blocks that complement The Witcher III's unique atmosphere.

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9 / 10
May 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.

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9.4 / 10.0
May 22, 2015

The Witcher 3 is an engaging, overwhelmingly lengthy gaming experience with a staggering amount of characters to meet and places to explore. With solid quest structure, great voice acting and a killer soundtrack, there's really not much we can say or add that could further sugar-coat our sentiment, which is as follows: "this is the game to buy right now, like, NOW!"

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GRYOnline.pl
Top Critic
9.5 / 10.0
May 23, 2015

The Witcher 2 was a game from the beginning designed for PCs. In the case of The Witcher 3, the creators admit that multiplatforming forced them to compromise, but this does not mean that Wild Hunt for PC is a port prepared on the knee. Contrary.

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5 / 5.0
May 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.

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May 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.

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4.5 / 5.0
May 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.

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Matt S.
Top Critic
May 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.

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8.5 / 10.0
May 24, 2015

The Witcher III has a compelling plot, combined with some old school, complex game systems that encourage exploration, crafting and experimentation.

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9 / 10
May 24, 2015

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a modern classic, but it isn't without faults. How they affect things will be down to you though.

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9 / 10.0
May 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.

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98 / 100
May 25, 2015

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the first great RPG of the current generation of consoles. Its gigantic world full of relevant things to do, fine combat, captivating story and very high degree of customization, make it one of the games that have caused me the most joy throughout my life enjoying this wonderful medium. I can't find the right words to do justice to the incredible work delivered by CD Projekt Red, a studio that has undoubtedly earned a place alongside the biggest in this industry.

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9 / 10.0
May 25, 2015

If we awarded The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on PlayStation 4 with 8.5, we can only raise this vote on PC, firstly for the enormous potential offered by modding, and to a lesser extent for the excellent graphics sector, the stability of the game, the optimization of the REDengine 3 and the scalability offered by the many graphics settings available. Frankly, given the times that run and with such a vastness of play, we did not expect a yield already so solid and stable already a few days away. Instead CD Projekt RED has done a great job and if it is true that not everything is perfect yet, it is also true that perfection is not of this world.

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9.5 / 10.0
May 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 - creating a world begging to be explored for countless hours on end.

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90 / 100
May 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.

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May 25, 2015

CD Projekt RED have addressed many of the complaints registered with previous entries, and leave me very little to criticize in 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'. Gameplay, world design, and the story are big draws as the Witcher's world is as well realized and deep as anything going. This is an easy title to recommend to just about any gamer.

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5 / 5.0
May 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.

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