Source: GameSpot

This year’s unprecedented number of top notch titles has been so massive that fantastic games, that in years previous would have caught a ton of gamer attention, are falling through the cracks. Case in point, developer CD Projekt Red’s ‘The Witcher’.

This super dark and mature RPG for the PC has gone almost completely unnoticed by the gaming community caught up in Halo 3 and COD4 hysteria.

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That’s a real shame, since The Witcher really is a top notch RPG title. It provides a much needed break from the “goblin and elves” RPG staple. With fantastic graphics, a sweet combat system, one of the best soundtracks this year, and perhaps the darkest, most engrossing storyline of any RPG, The Witcher deserves much better than a bottom shelf display beside craptacular titles like Jericho, TimeShift and Fury in our local gaming outlets.

Its only fault is the rather poor english voice overs, but even that cannot take away the overall quality of a game that has been reduced to an eventual bargain bin ending.

I have to admit I almost passed it by myself, but because the game is based on the works of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, my girlfriend (who is also Polish) encouraged me to give it a try. A decision she now regrets as I spend my free time assuming the role of Geralt of Rivia, the most bad ass monster slaying mercenary ever!