Launch Station: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

Released just under a year ago, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings quickly became the best PC exclusive of 2011 with an incredible amont of critical success as the game went on to win 50 Game of the Year awards.  Now close to a year later, CD Projekt RED has brought their 2011 fantasy RPG epic to the Xbox 360.  For the Xbox 360 release, CD Projekt RED has added more content to deem adding it the Enhanced Edition to the name.  For those who has already bought The Witcher 2 for PC, do not worry that you are going to be missing out as you can download the Enhanced Edition update for free.

You control Geralt of Rivia, one of the few remaining Witchers (monster hunters in this fantasy world).  Caught in the political struggles of the kingdom of Terneria, Geralt has to pick his sides and make hard moral decisions in order to find King Foltest's assassin and clear his name.  The Witcher 2 for the 360 is not just a straight port of the PC version.  CD Projekt RED has worked hard to tailor the whole Witcher experience for the console.  The controls, targeting, camera and interface have been re-designed to best use the 360 controller.  Being the Enhanced Edition of Witcher 2, CD Projekt RED has added a lot of additional content to the game's console debut.  New adventures, new locations, new characters, new monsters and new mysteries, which add more hours of gameplay and expand the Witcher 2's rich story.  The Enhanced Edition of Witcher 2 also features a whole new opening cinematic that depicts the the events which sets-up the story for Witcher 2.

For those hardcore gamers such as yours truly that does not own an extremely powerful PC, the Enhanced Edition of Witcher 2 is the only way you are going to get your hands-on this critically acclaimed fantasy RPG.  If it was not for how much money I spent on video games in this past month and the fact I cannot play two huge RPGs at the same time (focusing on Xenoblade Chronicles at the moment), I would be picking up The Witcher 2 tomorrow.  Having heard great things about it and having tried the PC demo through Screwattack's streaming demo service, I have been looking forward to this game for a while now.  Before the end of this year, I will most likely pick up The Witcher 2 for my family's 360.  If you missed out on The Witcher 2 when it released a year ago and you own a Xbox 360, there is no better game that releases this week.  If you already have The Witcher 2 for PC, you are better off downloading the new update than picking it up for the 360.