The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Edition — the most complete edition 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 enhancements. Owners of the original version of the game on consoles and PC received the Complete Edition as a free upgrade. The upgrade is available regardless of the presence of add-ons, the account must have the original game.

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 other northern lands. Meanwhile, the famous witcher Geralt and his wise mentor Vesemir are on the trail of the missing sorceress Yennefer, the long-lost love of the White Wolf. You can expect an adventure-filled game world, a brilliant plot, an excellent combat system, stunning graphics, non-linearity, 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 invasion of the Nilfgaardian Empire. The game area of Witcher 3 is 30 times larger than that of Witcher 2, and players can use a horse — Roach — for movement.

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

The rest of the game world offers entire mountains and valleys, fields and forests, rivers and lakes, caves and underground vaults for exploration. Swamps and "forbidden places" where monsters usually dwell are present. 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 as closely to possible reality as possible, so that traveling through it is interesting.

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

At the same time, the Nilfgaard Empire is engulfing the Northern Kingdoms one after another. The player can choose one side of the conflict to contribute to the political structure of the game world by participating in battles and sieges. 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 undertake secondary quests; events will unfold regardless of whether Geralt participated in them or not. Each main quest offers several development options that affect the game's ending. The writers meticulously crafted the story, dialogues, and added numerous cutscenes.

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

The combat system has been completely overhauled, allowing Geralt to fight multiple opponents simultaneously. The system of combos and attack chains is absent; the player must simply strike, defend, and counterattack in a timely manner, dodge, and take cover. The mechanics of silver and steel swords have not changed, but an alternative has been added — bombs and a crossbow.

The system of five magical signs has been refined, and they can now be used both in combat and in everyday life. To complete quests, players often have to use "Witcher senses" to interact with the game world. Monsters and creatures have been given strengths and weaknesses, which must be known to deal with them quickly.

Alchemy has been made more complex, but by drinking potions, Geralt gains special abilities, increases his stats, or deals more damage to specific enemies. The maximum character level is 70, but it changes depending on the game's difficulty. As before, Geralt can improve his talents by choosing a specialization and corresponding skills.

Years after its release, Wild Hunt has gained hundreds of user modifications, most of which have also moved to the updated version. Moreover, it integrates mods like The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, HD Monsters Reworked, Immersive Real-time Cutscenes, Nitpicker's Patch, World Map Fixes, and many components of the FCR Mod by default.

CD Projekt also released a new version of the Modkit — a toolkit for modders, with improvements and additions, ensuring the project a lifespan for decades to come.