The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Edition — the most complete edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, including all expansions, add-ons The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine and The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone, as well as numerous graphical improvements. Owners of the original version of the game on consoles and PC received the Complete Edition as a free update. The upgrade is available regardless of the presence of add-ons; the original game must be present on the account.

The events of the final part of Geralt's adventures begin shortly after the finale of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Nilfgaard has successfully conquered Temeria and plans to subjugate the rest of the northern lands. Meanwhile, the famous witcher Geralt and his wise mentor Vesemir are on the trail of the missing sorceress Yennefer, the longtime love of the White Wolf. You can expect an adventure-filled game world, a brilliant storyline, an excellent combat system, stunning graphics, nonlinearity, multiple endings, and a cozy atmosphere of Slavic medieval fantasy.

Witcher 3 is the first game in the series with a fully open world, set in the Northern Kingdoms during the third Nilfgaardian Empire invasion. The Witcher 3 game zone is 30 times larger than that of Witcher 2, and players can use a horse — Roach — for travel.

The world is divided into regions with different landscapes and development, inhabited by various ethnic groups. There are 15 full-fledged states and more than 20 principalities and free cities, which, depending on the player’s actions, will unite to resist or be conquered. The design of the settlements resembles medieval Eastern Europe, but there are Scandinavian-type buildings as well.

The rest of the game world offers mountains and valleys, fields and forests, rivers and lakes, caves and underground vaults to explore. There are swamps and "cursed places" where monsters usually dwell. The bestiary of Witcher 3 is extremely diverse, on the player's path they will encounter not only bandits and wild animals, but also vampires, ghosts, ogres, earth elementals, griffins, succubi, and other monsters.

The game world is filled with numerous events, both random and scripted, programmed to be as close to possible reality as possible, making it interesting to explore.

The "Wild Hunt" is not just highlighted in the game's title — it is a squad of elite ghostly riders from another dimension, the dying world of the elves, who are trying to migrate to the human world. It is led by the elven king Eredin, ready to open a portal at any cost, for which he kidnaps people who can lead him to Ciri. The antagonist does not even imagine that Geralt is comparable to him in strength and cunning.

At the same time, the Nilfgaard Empire is absorbing the Northern Kingdoms one by one. The player can choose one of the sides of the conflict, participating in battles and sieges to contribute to the political structure of the game world. Simultaneously, Emperor Emhyr orders Geralt to find and save Ciri.

Unlike other role-playing games, the mechanics of Witcher 3 allow the player not to accept secondary quests, events will unfold regardless of whether Geralt participates in them or not. Each plot quest offers several development options, affecting the game's finale. The writers have meticulously worked on the story, dialogues, and added numerous cutscenes.

Secondary tasks set the bar high, as most of them are well-developed and strikingly different from standard open-world quests like "kill" or "fetch". The plot can be completed quickly in 40 hours, or as expected in 50. The same amount of time will be spent exploring the game world and secondary tasks.

The combat system has been completely redesigned so that Geralt can fight a large number of opponents simultaneously. The system of combos and strike combinations is absent, the player simply needs to time their strikes, defend, counterattack, dodge, and take cover. The mechanics of the silver and steel swords remain unchanged, but an alternative has been added — bombs and a crossbow.

The system of five magical signs has been improved, now they can be used both in combat and in everyday life. Для выполнения квестов часто приходится использовать «ведьмачье чутье», взаимодействовать с игровым миром. Чудовища и монстры получили сильные и слабые стороны, последние нужно знать, чтобы быстро с ними расправиться.

Алхимию усложнили, но, выпивая зелья, Геральт получает особые способности, повышает свои характеристики или урон против определенных врагов. Максимальный уровень персонажа — 70, но меняется в зависимости от сложности игры. Как и раньше, Геральт может улучшать свои таланты, выбрав специализацию и соответствующие умения.

Спустя годы после выхода, Wild Hunt обзавелась сотнями пользовательских модификаций, большая часть которых переехала и в обновленную версию. Более того, в неё по-умолчанию интегрированы моды The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, HD Monsters Reworked, Immersive Real-time Cutscenes, Nitpicker's Patch, World Map Fixes и многие компоненты FCR Mod.

Также CD Projekt выпустила новую версию Modkit — инструментария для моддеров, с улучшениями и дополнениями, чем обеспечила проекту жизнь на десятилетия вперед.