The Witcher 2 App Reviews

Thanks so much, I was realy able to push my graphics card with this last update! It was nice to see where I really stood on a power level when gaming on OSX. Great game and its running very smoothly, thanks! 3.2 i5 16 gb nvidia geforce gtx 680 os x 10.8.3

For me the game was running fine until the end of Chapter 1 (so about 8 hours into it), and then it just began to really fall apart. Im running it on a mid-2012 rMBP. The frame rate is TERRIBLE, the sound keeps cutting out (i.e. there is no sound and you need to exit and reboot the program), and there are just glitches galor. That said, the game is really fun when it works and the story line (which I had to read about on Wikipedia to grasp because it seems to pick up right from Witcher 1) is good. Good game and worth 20 bucks but for me now its unplayable and thats a problem. Also the updates take a HUGE amount of space which is something to keep in mind.

I can now play it, but not in the best quality, but honestly its still awesome, and still look good.

I was a bit iffy on buying this but I succumbed to my impulsive ways and ended up checking it out. Im glad I did. The story is brilliantly done, with 16 different endings, numerous choices throughout the game, as well as a great combat system, with swords, bombs, poison throwing daggers and sweet spells. It ran perfectly on medium settings for me with a MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz i7, 8 GB of DDR3 and nVidia 650M), and could probably push into the high settings with a little performance decrease, but it looks wonderful on medium. It is quite graphic in terms of gore and nudity, but hey, thats what makes it fun! All in all, definitely worth 20 bucks, if not for the great storyline, but the replayability and cool stuff you can do within the game.

Runs perfectly, no lag on high settings with gfx card switcher. The problem I found was that my mbp was not switching to discrete graphics on its own. I downloaded gfx switcher, (google it, gfx.io) and used that (note, I dot not own or have any connection with the software or its maker) to switch the graphics card to discrete manually. Great Game.

This is the best RPG Ive played. It is a brillian combination of many things I enjoy. Elder Scrolls: like t is a rich open world RPG, not as wide open as Skyrim (follows a more defined story path), but with better graphics. Assassins Creed: the combat system and graphics are much more satisfying than Skyrim, closer to Assassins Creed Game of Thrones: this is dark, mature, fantasy with lots of political intrigue. This is the best and most unique aspect of the game. Youll need some horsepower to play it. Im running the game from a new iMac with 2.9GHz i5 w/ Nvidia 650 w/ 512MB and it runs beautifully with full resolution.

If youve read a book based on a video game, you know how shallow those can be. Since this game is based on (or perhaps inspired by) a book, it has a depth few other games have. I find myself actually listening to dialogue scenes instead of quickly reading the subtitles and skipping to the next branch. My 2 1/2 year old iMac runs it great on Medium quality, which is plenty pretty to look great. The occasional crash (happened more often in the first chapter) and the imperfect inventory managment would be nice to have improved, but overall its just a delight to play. Im purposefully taking my time and enjoying the journey far more than most RPG games.

there is no way to remap the I key, so you will not be able use IJKL as your movement keys. if you try to change W to I you get an alert and then the game stops responding to input events (mouse, keystroke) and you have to force quit. this is the list of immutable characters: C, I, J, M it also appears that you cannot remap the mouse button keys. there is something not quite right with the mouse sensitivity - i use a Razor Death Adder gaming mouse and in this game (and only this game) it performs very poorly. i tried with a mid-range logitech mouse and it worked ok. if you have a Intel HD Graphics 3000 card, i would recommend not trying to play this game. you will be disappointed.

This game is great, just not on mac. I have a 13 MacBook Pro and it can run wineskins of Skyrim ten times better than this game. Textures are missing, and the thing is just plain glitchy. Go play it on a good pc or xbox.

I love a good RPG, and this takes the cake for me. As has been said, the ability to avoid the black and white choices, the feeling of every decision having 2 legitimate sides worth thinking over, I have not seen other games equal this. And the multitude of paths is impressive. Practically every decision matters and changes the game. The fighting mechanics are fun and varied in option. I am anxiously awaiting the next release.

I just bought this game and everytime i spin around or look in another direction my whole starts to turn pink and flickers. So i don’t know why this does it but is possible to fix it. Saw there was an update hopefully that fixes but other than.. I wont my money back! haha

First, the context from which this reviews originates. I’m not a gamer. I occasionally dabble with smaller games as time wasters, but I’m not a guy who “games” or has ever owned a “gaming system”. I downloaded this looking for a guilty pleasure that I seldom indulge in. I’m running this on the latest version MBPr 15” (Haswell), with the fastest CPU option. The rest of the late 2013 MBPr 15” stats are standard for the model (16GB RAM, nVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, tons of SSD space). For the game itself (plot, characters, graphic presentation), I would give 4 or 5 stars. The 2 issues I have with the game involve the execution of the software…. 1) The entire time I played this (on medium settings, as I have seen that many other users tend to go that way), my MBP’s fan was running at what sounded like full speed (or close to it), and the rear left part of the case ran hot enough that it periodically became uncomfortable enough for my knee to make me move the machine. I don’t know if this machine was meant to operate at these temperatures for this length of time. I would guess that it’s putting quite a strain on it, and if I kept this up for very long, might limit the life of my laptop’s components. As my laptop satisfies the requirements listed by the publisher for game play, I don’t know why this game can’t be designed to run more reasonably on the host machine. 2) I see I need to update the app again this morning. I’ve had the app for 2-3 days, and already had to update it once since the original download. These guys don’t do patches - every update is a 20GB+ download!! That’s ridiculous. So, in summary, I think this game is best for desktop “gaming” systems. If you’ve a laptop, even the highest-end one available, there will be some annoyances, one of which will possibly limit the life of your machine (and, unlike desktop systems, the new MBPr’s are designed to be completely un user fixable - everything’s crammed into a completely sealed ecosystem, so repair is an obligatory send-in, and probably very expensive if not deemed a warrantable item). *** UPDATE *** So, again I’m being prompted to update my version of Witcher 2. And now I realize the App Store wants to update me from version 1.01….to 1.01…..at the time cost of a 21GB download. Clearly the version update feature here is broken. App Store directs you to the software maker for support. The software maker allows you to post on a user support forum, but there is no way to directly contact them evident on the support website. Take off a star for frustrating support experience…..

This is one of the best RPG’s swordplay games I have played in a long time!! My only complaint is during Roche’s path the tents in the Kaedweni Camp will not load making the rest of the game unplayable for that path. I have searched the internet for a fix but have been unable to find one. Some other minor glitches through the game but nothing to serious. I am currently running on Mavericks system, and I meet the minimum requirements to run the game. If the other witcher series were on here I woud buy them

Very nice fight actions. If you can not run it with your current machine, just reduce the resolution and specs, it should run fine. It can be very laggy at some parts of the game, but, it is very temporary. I finished the game at hard mode and i have 256mb graphics card.

This game has kept me entertained for nearly a year now. First I beat it on the Easy setting, then more storylines opened up the more difficult it got and the more effort if took. Incredible graphics and a storyline that will keep you intrigued for a long time.

This game is awesome. But it MURDERED my computer. I’m running this on a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro with an Intel HD 4000 graphics card, and I can barely play it with the medium settings. I had to turn it down to low - but even then it still has bugs! The great plot & graphics make it a charm of a game, but it feels like a chore to play through it with all these bugs.

This game looked exciting- sort of like Skyrim on mac. It turned out to be a mess. I have a brand spanking new Macbook Pro with all the bells and whistles, but the game didn’t seem to care. Loooonnnngggg load times. Very skippy graphics. Then there was a weird phenomenon with movement in the game, where the player would move faster than the area around him could buffer (creating a piccaso like bizzaro world of color and sound). Buying this game was definetly a poor decision. My advice, find something else to spend 20$ on

I should have listened to the negative reviews — even with a high powered mac, this game was insanely difficult to play. Parts of the screen just disappear all the time, and it makes gameplay very unpleasant. The story line is great and if you have the absolute most high mac out there, yeah maybe your mac works. But if you aren’t positive that you have the most advanced video card in your mac, don’t waste your time and money.

This game has an annoying defect when played on Mac OS anything… the sound cuts out after 15 minutes or so of play and cannot be turned on again without exiting the game and reentering. Read any blog on the subject and you will find that it happens on any Mac regardless of OS, video card, audio card or amount of RAM. The company should recall this game and refund the cost of purchase. Don’t buy it if you use a Mac!

This game has an utterly horrible UI for combat. Special moves are available through runes, but they are keybound arbitrarily and there is nothing on the screen to even remind you what key does what. There was, as far as I could tell, no way to change the keybindings. If you’re the sort of person with eidetic memory you’ll be okay, but otherwise the game doesn’t give you any helpful hints as to your abilities. The game is also deeply misogynistic. Eye candy and double standards abound, and a word that rhymes with “four” is tossed around like rice at a wedding. Undoubtedly this is meant to make the game seem “gritty” but all it really seems to be is an effort to distract the presumed male player from how bad the gameplay and how convoluted the story are.