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First impressions of Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Recommended requirements:

Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz; Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290; 8 GB of RAM; 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1); DirectX 11; 40 GB of hard disk space.

The game world is surprising. At least by how gloomy and even dirty life in all its manifestations is (for some reason this is usually called “realism” - apparently, I cannot understand this with my optimism). Geralt now and then meets liars, scoundrels, drunks - in a word, every rabble, from which, by all appearances, also stinks of urine and other impurities. There are many victims of hard fate: grieving mothers, whose children were taken to the front, separated couples, and sometimes just skeletons, whose sad history has to be recognized by the yellowed diaries. The atmosphere, of course, is unique - for the soul of the “harmless” boy, there will be more dark stories here than the main villain of any Dragon Age: Inquisition. And external “decorations” like cadaver pits and gallows trees only reinforce the first impression of communication with the “peaceful” population.

Even more striking is how simple The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt does without any pathos. Just think, some kind of prediction about the destruction of worlds. Well, yes, mysterious riders of the Wild Hunt are running around somewhere, leaving behind only horror and permafrost - the rest does not care. The world is mired in war, and mere mortals can only accept and somehow live on. Everyone has their own worries, no one prays for the coming of the Hero, and all the bad weather will be resolved by itself, I guess. Even Geralt, it seems, sincerely believes that he is only trying to save Ciri, and does not decide the fate of the whole world. Paradox - such naivety from the main character in a truly adult game. 