The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Xbox One

Welcome to one of the most complete role-playing open worlds you have ever entered. In "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt," even the most seemingly insignificant characters have the most personal of stories, and every character in the Northern Kingdoms seems to come to life. Developer CD Projekt Red crafts one of the finest open-world role-playing games of this console generation in Wild Hunt, and it's all about the way the world comes to life. Few role-players have this much personality and this many truly 3-D characters, all of whom help weave the tapestry that is these Northern Kingdoms. This is a game that will exact emotion from the gamer, a title that will make you feel and doubt and wonder the longer and deeper you play. You reprise the role of Geralt of Rivia, the star of the previous Witcher games and a grizzled, 3-D hero in his own right. Early on, he's chasing a long lost love, working to find the young child he once nurtured (the titular Ciri), and trying to move on from the events of "The Witcher 2," all at once. He's also a witcher, a member of a rare, genetically enhanced race capable of monster-slaying in this wild world. With that come tinges of mistrust and fear from some you meet. CD Projekt Red never overdoes this effect, though, leaving only slight hints of public fear, never reaching comic-book extremes. There is a great deal of gray in "Wild Hunt," and Geralt often gets to make the call. The decisions are both large and small (Call out the general's motives? Let that woman die?), and you feel as if your moves do shape the future of this world. The Witcher 3 gets this art of subtlety, something that video games are gradually becoming more proficient in in 2015, and it's evident throughout the game, particularly in the women that Geralt pursues. Few games carefully straddle the line between female sexuality and the outcry for feminine toughness in 2015 better than "The Witcher 3." Ciri is as powerful as anyone, and when you take control of her during the game you swiftly discover that. Yennefer, Geralt's romantic love interest and the pursuit that drives the earliest portions of this game, is a powerful sorceress, well capable of holding her own in battle, and no, an early nude scene, tastefully done, takes nothing away from that. Yes, there is occasional nudity in "The Witcher 3," but it rarely feels intrusive. Like much of "Wild Hunt," it comes in a "Game of Thrones" sort of way, just enough to remind you you're playing a mature title, never enough to overshadow the overall experience. CD Projekt Red does everything possible to further enhance its world with beautiful art design and smart technical decisions. Saying "The Witcher 3" simply "looks good" is a near insult to the effort that's gone into this game, the day-night cycles, the way the wind blows against the trees and the grass, the detail on Geralt's garb. Play "Wild Hunt" long enough, and you'll find yourself stopping randomly to take in the beautiful scenery, to appreciate the detail that's gone into the grass, or to stare out into the distance after scaling a mountain. And despite so many characters, nearly everyone you meet has visual personality as well, great care put into scars and wrinkles and moles and body types to generate a vastly unique populace. Even the cut scenes exhibit great care, with shifting camera angles and closeups that emphasize certain characters and expressions. Gameplay, meanwhile, does its best to stay out of the way, functional without any flourishes that take your focus off the story. It's the little things that are the most terrific. Multi-step boss battles let you feel the enormity of massive beasts but never feel frustration. One-button horseback riding without thumbstick navigation along paths lets you ponder the story as you travel a vast kingdom, much as you might do on a car trip. There are crafting and alchemy to delve into as well, each deep but never overdone. The alchemy itself will have you collecting items and leaves, much as many other games you've played, but it never feels rote, not with such a vast array of items and potions to be crafted. Only the combat slips. A sore spot in "The Witcher 2," it's been revamped and made more console-friendly in "Wild Hunt." CD Projekt Red manages to bring combat more in line with today's action games, with parries and a variety of strikes, but the controls can occasionally feel sluggish. Geralt also doesn't move and turn with the fluidity you'd find in, say, "Batman: Arkham City," and the imprecision can feel annoying. So too can the all-too-frequent bugs. As beautiful as "The Witcher 3" may look, graphical errors still abound, with disappearing trees or the occasional moment when Geralt walks through an object. There are unpolished moments, too, especially when Geralt clambers onto a craggy rock face yet appears to be standing on perfectly level ground. You can't fault CD Projekt Red too much because these moments are common in all massive open-worlders, but they're more noticeable here, in large part because of the elegance and detail that permeats so much of the rest of this game. The end result is a terrific role-playing game that any fan of "Elder Scrolls: Skyrim" will love. "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" falls just short of perfection because of those nagging little issues. But if you've been looking for your next-generation "Skyrim," you've found it right here.

I own both a PS4 and an XBOX ONE. Of every title released for either concole, the Witcher 3 is by far the best one I've played. I'm a big fan of RPG style games, and I'd put hours and hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition prior to picking up Witcher 3. While I very much enjoyed DA:I, I decided to pop in the Witcher to see how it was. I haven't stopped playing it since. I tend to get bored with games - I have sort of a video game ADD. I typically play a game for a few hours, get bored of it, play something else and eventually come back to it. Nothing has drawn me away from the Witcher 3. I'm only about 15 hours in, and I couldn't be more entertained. I played through the Witcher 2: Assissin of Kings and really enjoyed that game despite it's flaws. Witcher 2's combat was a little complicated at times, particularly when casting spells. Witcher 3 improves on this completely. Spells are now a simple press of a button. Combat is smooth and is more than just hack and slash. You must parry (reposte), dodge, use spells and in some cases oils to be successful. It's not overly difficult, it just requires a touch of skill that is easily learned after a couple of fights. The looting is great - you can loot almost anything, from a corpse to a bag of grain in some hut. The open world is HUGE. It really seems like it's Skyrim times two. There are plenty of main and side quests to keep you busy - and they generally have substance. Not just a bunch of fetch missions. The story line is very interesting the voice acting is first rate. The graphics are what you'd expect from a next gen game (I have this game for XBOX ONE). PROS: - Excellent story - Great voice acting - Tons of content; lots of missions - Good, fun combat - Lots of enemy variety - Good graphics CONS - Over the first few days of playing the game, I did encounter a few glitches, such as a failure to load a saved game that forced me to completely reboot the system to make it work. However, a patch has since been released that seems to have fixed the glitches I had experienced. So far, so good. Overall, I can't recommend this game enough. In my opinion, this is $60.00 well spent.

In an age of video gaming that is ridden with unfinished products, or pretty much clones of past releases, there are a few sparkling gems that stand out. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of those gems. Bare with me while I explain a little; Im not ashamed to say that I've never played a past Witcher game, or any other cd project red title that I can think of. So of course I was a little skeptical at first, exspecially after getting my hopes up for other releases. *cough* Destiny *cough* But right outa the box, this game impressed me. (And yes, I bought a physical copy. Can't help the fact that I have crappy Internet where I live.) it comes with a thank you letter, and a promise of free dlc!!! Coming from a market which is saturated with downloadable content that cots the same as the game, this was a breath of fresh air. But what's to say about this game that hasn't already been said? HUGE open world, extreme player choices that change the whole game, and just the overall length. Not to mention intriguing story. As I said, I've never played a previous Witcher title. I felt kinda lost at the beginning, but the game does a very good job of explaining itself. I got to a part that I thought would be the end of the game, seeing as I played it for days by that point (surprise, wasn't the end), but it just continued to surprise me. Almost Reminds me of red dead redemption but your choices actually matter. Even the little things make a huge difference way on down the line. Almost done, just wanna talk about side quests. Most games, even skyrim in some cases had an issue with this, side quests can feel meaningless and seem to have no effect on the work around you. Not so with the Wild Hunt. Like I said before, most of them can have a huge impact later down the line. Don't even get me started on how many hours I wasted collecting the Gwent Cards. Probably the most fun mini game to date. That's all folks! Like so many others, I give this game a 10/10. I was blown away, and very pleased with my purchase. If you are deciding if you should get this game or not, I would suggest that you do. Totally worth the money!

Awesome game, I couldn't be happier with the purchase. Extremely in depth story line and plenty of side quests to keep you busy in the meantime. I was a huge skyrim and oblivion fan and this might be even better than those. The gameplay is much more strategic and it took some getting use to at first. Gameplay is challenging, which is a good thing, and often times you have to die to a boss several times before you figure out there movement and attack patterns and how to beat them properly. You also need to prepare and for big boss fights by crafting different potions and oils to help you in the fight. The non-linear aspect of the game is also really cool. Depending on how you interact in conversations with other characters can affect quests that you get and events that happen in the game. There are a few things that bug me. While the non-linear aspect of the story is cool, it also leads to some quests being impossible to complete depending on the order you do things. For example, If you finish the baron questline before beating him in gwent then you can't go get his unique reward card or finish the collect em all quest. This happens fairly early in the game and at that point I didn't care about gwent or really know how to play so I just figured I would do it later. Well now that I know how to play gwent and got into the questline I will never be able to fully complete it because of this. Kind of a bummer but I am not going to restart my game to finish one quest and collect one card. The other thing that bugs me (pun intended) are the bugs in the game! I have experienced numerous crashes and several load failures. I have even had to hard reset my xbobx one several times to get the game to work. Overall the cons very heavily outweigh the pros. If you like open world RPGs, I think this is possibly the best one available.

I think the game is amazing. You will have enough to keep you busy for many hours. One warning for those of us that do not possess the reflexes of a fifteen or twenty five year old, you will find the game very frustrating. I am 69 and was excited to get a game I can play on my Xbox one. But even on easy mode the first area you end up in is basically a breeze, but when you get to the next area of villages you will notice the big enemies the ones that you can get good loot from, are a real challenge to kill unless you possess the reflexes of a 15 or 25 year old. As I said I believe this is a fantastic game, and I am sure there are some older people out there that can play the game and enjoy it. Let’s face the facts these games now are designed for the biggest money audience and that is kids. I have played Assassins creed black flag, Far cry 4, many time over, and can do very well at it even though I don’t really like those kinds of games. I personally like RPG like Fallout 3, Fallout new vagus, Skyrim, kingdoms of amalu and the like. I have played those games through 15 or 20 times each and of course had to put up with the constant overheating with Xbox 360. I was really hoping the next gen gamed wouldn’t leave me behind because I wanted to play the type of games I prefer without over heating consoles. It looks like us older gamers are being left out of the equation on many of the so called next gen games. I am really hoping someday the gaming industry will have more game like the ones I can play for many hours and enjoy them very much. I am not talking about remaking old games for Xbox one, I want games created for xbox one like the ones I enjoy. Now most of the games seem to be geared not only to a young audience but they are incorporating multiplayer aspects into most all the games . Personally I don’t find it fun to play a game when there are literally hundreds of other player running this way and that all around you, and for me that takes the fun of playing because it can be so distracting trying to focus on the game while all this activity is going on around you that has nothing to do with you. You are no longer the hero of the game you are just one of a huge bunch of players. Just my opinion.

It took me two days to start playing the game after I received it, because even with the disk inside my console I still had to install it from the Xbox Live store rather than directly from the disk. Compare this to games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim, both of which install offline directly from the disk in about twenty minutes. This aside, once I was finally able to play the game I found myself disappointed. It's just too busy of a game. There are just too many things the player has to try to remember and keep straight. I enjoy role playing games where the player is tasked with building up his character traits over a period of time. Zelda, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts. These are enjoyable series and fun games. Witcher 3 would be among them if it wasn't so darned busy. It's no fun when I have to keep long traveling to a merchant in order to restore my weapons and armor to proper working order. It's even less fun when said merchant is not available is not in every village or even displayed on the map. And it's even less fun than that when the only way to build your character up quickly enough to progress through the story and take on more quests is to keep fighting the same old tired enemies again and again and again. It took me ten hours to level up two times. No joke. No wonder a game with only four territories on the map takes over 100 hours to complete. But then in addition to this tired rinse and repeat style of play, there comes the exhausting "can't mix ingredients together to craft a potion or food or armor or weapon on your own while exploring the wilderness. No, you have to once again go find one of those hard to find and rare merchants who will charge you game money to craft an item IF YOU ALREADY HAVE MANAGED TO FIRST GATHER ALL THE REQUIRED ITEMS THAT THE MERCHANT WILL NEED IN ORDER TO CRAFT THE ITEM. And where would you find a list of such required items, you ask? Why, buried deep in a third, fourth or fifth menu, of course. Keep in mind, it's not just armor either. No, it's shoe armor, pants armor, tunic armor and glove armor. Yes, you have to keep track of the damage each of these items take. And when it comes to weapons, you can't just restore your weapons. No. You must also find a bench where you can enhance your weapons, and also find a grindstone where you can sharpen your weapons. Over and over, many, many times, every time your weapons start to dull. The whole time I'm wondering how many times do I have to keep doing this before I can finally level up and get better weapons. Hours upon hours upon hours. It's just too much. Yes, were this real life, then all this would make sense. It would be true to life immersion. But this is not true to life. It's a game. And some things I just expect to be automatic. Like drawing my sword when an enemy suddenly springs out from the bushes to attack me. I expect my character to automatically draw his sword. But no, not in this game. If I don't first waste that first precious second pressing a button to draw my sword (the same button which also is used grab an item from my inventory, and scroll through menus), then I will proceed to uselessly punch the enemy rather than slash and stab. That's what I mean. There are just too many things the player must do that should be done automatically by the game engine. Drawing your sword when attacked by an enemy is one of them. After all, your sword is automatically drawn when you are on horseback and an enemy ambushes you. Whey isn't it automatically drawn when you're not on the horse? All in all I found the game far too cumbersome and busy to be enjoyable. I'm sticking with Zelda and Fallout. This greatly concerns me where Cyberpunk is concerned, because with the ridiculous announcement that binary gender options are now going to be removed from that game, CD Projekt Red is also the developer of the Witcher series.

The Witcher 3 is a fantastically dense game that took me over 100 hours (possibly even 200) just to beat because it constantly distracts you with very well thought out side quests in its highly immersive world. The combat is incredibly responsive and precise with numerous ways to approach battle. The monster contracts particularly stand out and I found myself leveling up just to play through them. The story itself challenges you with decisions that are never black and white and have unforeseeable consequences that play out brilliantly. Every choice has consequences and they are usually not good, so get used to choosing the lesser of two evils. My only gripe really is that the game introduces quite a few characters that were barely (if at all) mentioned in the previous two games yet they are incredibly important to Geralt's life. I'm particularly referring to the most important character of the story, Ciri, as well as Geralt's love, Yennifer. I grew to like and care for them almost immediately though due to the phenomenal writing. It is very refreshing to play a game such as this with such sharp and clever dialogue that I haven't seen in a video game. I experienced a few bugs during my playthrough, but nothing earth-shattering. They were usually just texture or sound glitches. It would occasionally annoy but only because the soundtrack is so good. When I first started the game I had a really hard time getting used to the combat and was completely confused by the oils and potions. Making it to the end though, it is incredible how everything flows and makes complete sense in combat. It really is a game you must grow into. The dark and mature story is also refreshing as is the not so goody two shoes protagonist. Overall, it is one of the best and most complex RPG's I have ever played. Too bad it is Geralt's last adventure because he went out on one hell of a high note.

A fantastic game, I must rate it as 5/5 but my only gripe with it is that I wish the gameplay was more responsive. Pros: What it really delivers on superbly. Graphics: Gorgeous extremely well optimized visuals, best on the xbox one of any game I've seen. Full forests, lush vegetation, variety, artwork, models, Voice acting: like a movie in many senses that just keeps going when you want Story: fleshed out characters from previous games even though I'm new to it. Bang for your buck: one of the longest lasting RPG's. full of side quests and content. Cons: Semi Low skill cap, I finished this easily on the hardest difficulty insane) I could have bare fist the final boss to death. Way too predictable enemies. While I understand the need to appeal to players who don't have the patience to get good enough to take a challenge. The game was just too easy and cut away from the immersion of the game. -The gameplay is enjoyable and definitely enough for those blasted casuals, but it gets repetitive soon enough, eventually considering how long they made this game. They need to make the controls and fighting mechanics much more responsible and creative; theres just plain not enough combat variety. Ninja gaiden had lighting responsive controls on the original xbox and was amazingly and really engaged you into the characters real abilities, not some grunt who hacks and slashes some mindless predictable NPC's. Ninja gaiden came out in 2004 FOR HEAVENS SAKE! Overall: An amazing game that spends perhaps too much on every game element (yet succeeds wonderfully) but cuts down on gameplay challenge, combat variety, AI, and controls which aren't responsive enough for what is supposed to be a legendary fighter. If your playing an RPG you should be able to have the ability to learn eventually be a master player throughly enjoying a deeply engaging and equally challenging game.

Envió: Se pidió el día 16 de octubre por la tarde y llego solo 4 dias después , muy rápido para un productor que es vendido y enviado por Amazon EUA. Embalaje: Venía en un sobre y dentro papel de burbujas, creo que deberían mejorar un poco aquí ya que por el manejo a veces los discos terminan por salirse de donde estan y andan sueltos en la cajita pudiéndose rayar. Funcionamiento: El juego fue un para mi hermano y parece que no le gustan tanto por lo cual no lo ha jugado mucho, yo ya lo pase para ps4 y esta genial si te gustan este tipo de juegos con historias profundas . Precio: Al momento de la compra fue una verdadera ganga de 250 pesos, comparado con lo que te brinda el juego. Veredicto: Si te gustan los juegos con trama , sorpresas, mundos abiertos y muchas cosas por hacer , este es tu juego ampliamente recomendable

Ha venido perfecto a España. Por cierto por si lo necesitais saber. No viene en español de españa..viene en español latinoamericano. He mirado con mi version de ps4 y apenas se nota...alguna palabra en concreto pero poco mas. Le quito una estrella porque queria devolverlo antes de que viniera porque pensaba que no vendría en ninguna version de español y pese a mis muchos intentos el vendedor no da señales de vida....y eso no me gusta.

Great game!

Increíble precio lo compre desde México fue exportado y llegó en buen tiempo además estaba bien protegido el paquete, el juego es excelente increíbles gráficos, increíble el mapa súper grande con infinidad de misiones hay juego para rato recomendado...

My granddaughter loves it. It was a long time coming but I’m satisfied.