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20th May 2015 at 3:00 AM
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Finally (RL/work interfering once more) I got the game (DVDs) and installed it (an hour and a half job - good grief!); had a problem with "day one" patch (I have games on D drive), solved it, got my freebies.
After all of this I only managed to play for a couple of hours, so for now, just a very quick first impression. Graphics are superb, of course, but with all the wonders you can admire in the landscape or in your immediate surroundings, I was by far most impressed by faces. This game is not afraid of close-ups - quite the contrary, and rightfully so: every little detail, every expression feels perfect. For the very first time in any game I felt I was looking at real people, and listening to them too - voice acting is excellent. New benchmark was set here and it will be very hard for others to achieve, let alone surpass it.
I can't say much about gameplay yet; it does feel more fluent than in older Witcher games. And the game does grab and shake you. How much, still remains to be experienced.