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The Witcher demo News

PC News by Tom Bramwell

17 December, 2007

Atari has released a demo of The Witcher, giving you a chance to poke around the early bits of Geralt's monster-slaying adventure through the world created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

The demo starts off with the prologue, where reluctant hero Geralt learns how to fight, and then the whole of Act 1, where he does some of the aforementioned slaying.

The Witcher's already been out for a bit, as Dan who puts the screenshots up remarked with no small amount of alarm when he heard there was a playable demo, but that shouldn't stop you giving it a go.

Highly rated by the likes of you, it also won favour with us in our Witcher review, where another Dan, Whitehead, liked the combat and the "solidly crafted story that includes elements of racial discord, religious fanaticism and sexual promiscuity" as he went on recommend it to RPG fans who liked the concept.

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Caimbeul
17/12/07 @ 10:34
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#1 :-)

Its pretty hefty at 1.3Gb
Snidesworth
17/12/07 @ 10:51
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The whole of Act 1? That's a pretty big chunk of the game.
asphaltcowboy
17/12/07 @ 11:24
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What are the minimum/recommended specs?
Cider-X
17/12/07 @ 11:29
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note to Atari: Port this to the 360 it would sell loads
Danj
17/12/07 @ 12:17
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Why isn't there a torrent of this? The mirror sites that are linked either require a special download manager app or are anti-leech HTTP downloads which can't be used with proper download managers. I have a 60GB 30-day usage cap, I want to try this game but I'm not going to risk getting to 99% and then having to restart or whatever.
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17/12/07 @ 12:37
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Cider-X: "note to Atari: Port this to other platforms it would sell loads"

Fixed.
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17/12/07 @ 12:38
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http://www.gamershell.com/news/44120.html

And use a proper browser like Opera for your downloading/resuming needs.

Plus, whoa! The whole act 1 + prologue? The demo is longer then some games :)
UncleLou
17/12/07 @ 13:16
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Cider-X: "note to Atari: Port this to other platforms it would sell loads"

Fixed.
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It's doing pretty well, from what I heard.

It's also not costing them an arse full of license fees before they're even allowed to publish it on a console.
domoslaf
17/12/07 @ 16:04
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I'm pretty sure Act 1 isn't included in its entirety, despite what the description says...

Anyways, a great game worth trying out by everyone, even though a little butchered by the Polish -> English translation. Guess it's a good thing I played the Polish version then. ;)
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7creature
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domoslaf: "A little butchered"???? You mean like cat ran over by train "little butchered", I presume? .-)
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Does anybody know if I can use the savegame from the demo in the game?
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7creature: Haha, something along these lines. ;)

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