Neverwinter Nights 2 (DVD-ROM)

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $24.75

Features:

• Build a character that suits your style of play - good or evil, chaotic or lawful, with any number of skills, feats and professions available at the click of a button
• Create your own modules, campaigns, and adventures for your friends - move buildings, terrain, script encounters, write dialogues, create quests and items

Accessories:
Neverwinter Nights(tm) 2 Official Strategy Guide (Forgotten Realms) (Forgotten Realms)	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Not a bad game at all, very smooth with Vista [Posted on 2008-03-08]
First I would like to give the bad stuff. There are numerous cut scenes and the camera control was a little hard to get used to, but it is tolerable, the saving grace of the cut scenes is that you can pause them ie. if you need to be away from the computer for a min. I personally have to do the "hit and run" gaming, I am too busy to devote an hour or two to un-interupted play.
I am running a Dell Inspiron 520 with the quad 2 processor and 3 gig of ram. I also have the Nvidia 256Mb video card. My system is decent, but it is a long way from top of the line. I had no problem installing the game (and I am running Vista) I loaded all the patches as soon as I installed the game, and it runs perfectly. (the patches took nearly 45 min. to load)

Every gamer is different, I like a plot that is at least somewhat linear. The plot line on this so far is linear enough that I don't get lost in the game, but I have some choices and can do certain things in a different order, or chose not to do something at all. The story line is okay, it could be better, but to me the mechanics and some of the situations or battles are more important. I like the extra classes and prestiege classes that they have added, and the new character races are good too. The only thing that I would really want to change about this game is I would like to be able to build my NPCs the way that I build my main Character. I would recomend this game to anyone that has a decent machine, but I would also recomend running the patch even though it takes forever to down load. (V1.12 was the latest that was out when I updated)

I have read some reviews that claim that it won't run well with Vista, but I have not had that problem, there may be more patches out now that have fixed that issue.

Waiting patiently for NWN 2 Gold Edition DVD [Posted on 2008-03-22]
I have not bought this yet as I am waiting until May when the Gold edition is likely to be released.

I've waited since I've listened carefully to all of you, you've told me about the camera troubles and the performances issues and how the patches may or may not help. I've read into why the engine acts like it does (want instant improvements: turn down shadows) and what I need to do to get it running like I expect.

I've also waited so I can enjoy not only the fixes but the best of the user content, which seem to be as interesting as the main story.

It's due to you magnificent modding [...] that I'm not going to pirate I will buy retail when it's ready, you have to support the business model even if they took a while to get it right. Otherwise they have no incentive to patch and fix and non-early adopters like me lose out on this great work of gaming art and YOU get a forever buggy half-game.

I've played nearly every PC RPG made, including Progress Quest and the NWN series handles D&D rules pretty well, so I'm confident I'll dig this when it's ready!

Late to the party is a-ok with me if you brought all the favors!

Fun but not perfect. [Posted on 2008-04-20]
I wanted this game to be perfect. I really did. Rarely does an RPG keep interested enough to finish, and this one has, which is saying alot. Let's get one thing straight, the bugs are gone ok. You can disregard low scores given by people who hated the early bugs. The game is much better then when it was first released, so in those terms you can buy this game in confidence. So how is it right? Great but not perfect. The story is very well done and is not cliched like so many other RPG stories. The Gameplay is top notch. The battle system is great for strategy lovers. The customization of your main character is very addictive. You may find yourself wanting to start the game over again after completing or even before, so you can try out a well thought out plan for the development of your character. Character customization is where the good replay value fits in.

So what are the problems? The game looks decent but is quite lacking and it takes a good comp to run the graphics on the highest settings, which is confusing since the graphics aren't amazing. The game forces you to play with characters you have not developed and therefore they will have mediocre or no equipment. You also don't have full freedom when developing your other characters. You have to stick with the same class they begin with except for one(but his class change is part of the story). I hate not being able to stick with the characters I love. Fortunately the game makes it to where everyone's exp gained is the same. If you haven't played with a charcter for a while, when they pop in the party, whalah they have the same amount exp as everyone else. If the game wasn't good I would have quit because of being forced to play with certain characters. That is really annoying bioware! Hopefully they will remove this in any furture D&D games. Ok i think I am done. Is it worth it? Yes. If you liked the first NWN you should like this one. Just do not expect it to blow you away.

Not bad, could have been better... [Posted on 2008-04-21]
(Note this may contain spoilers)


I never played the first NWN game but my husband said it was good and I decided to give this one a shot. The character selection screen isn't all that great. Don't get me wrong there is a wide selection of character races and classes to choose from but choosing what your character should look like is rather poor. Hardly much to choose from and not enough to make your character the way you want them to look.

From there it goes into the game. As you travel through the realm you meet different characters who join your party, which can be rather amusing. However if you pay close attention you will run across dialogue they speak doesn't match up with what is typed out on the screen.

Furthermore some of your party members you learn a great deal about who they are but others you are left with cryptic messages about their past and only to find out later it was removed from the game due to time constraints, which is a huge disappointment.

The other problem with this game is the fact there are not too many side quests and it seems you are more forced to do the main storyline then to actually explorer the world. If you take a look at the map you see so many areas that could have been added in the game. For example one such area later on is called "Leeves" a gnome village, but you are not able to travel there, such a shame.

Even more so the enemies' in this game are rather poor, there is a huge range of enemies in the Dungeons and Dragons world, yet you are only able to combat not even close to a third of them. Most of the time the game time is spent; fighting thugs, Watch guards (if you go evil), animals, and standard demons such as Succubus and imps, undead, shadows, Ogres, Orcs, Bugbears. Goblins you won't see until Act II and common enemies' like vampires don't appear until Act III. The only giants that are in this game are Fire Giants and you only encounter a few dragons.

The main storyline isn't too bad filled with holes that leave you scratching your head. The ending of the game was terrible. They should have allowed you to continue on playing the game. For example if you go evil and join the main villain you should be allowed to do missions for them or if you choose to be good continue onwards doing good deeds.

Romance in this game was another issue they were very sloppy on. I liked the fact my female character was involved with the paladin, Cassivir, but again, cryptic messages from him and you only were able to choose to be involved with him at the end of the game. Would have been nice to have this happen earlier in the game allowing it evolve over the game's time span. If your going to add romance in the game, either go all out with it like in the game Fable, or just don't add it in at all.

The game isn't horrible but it could have been much better. I just felt this game was put poorly together without too much thought put in it but with only thought of we have to get this out on the market. I think creators should take a look at Oblivion and see how a real fantasy game should be.

Good until the end [Posted on 2008-04-22]
Well, I had a decent amount of fun exploring and building up all the different characters, although trying to control all of them at the end was to say the last, a major pain. Graphics were quite good and the overall storyline was very good as well. BUT, in all the years and games of the genre I have played, after spending hours upon hours getting to the end and finally killing the head dude, I was, well how do I put this, VERY %&(*&#$ ticked off at the stupid lame ending, unless you're evil, but still you spend all the effort to get finish and after a climactic battle you get wiped out by a stupid (*&@(#$ cave in. I mean please how freakin likely is that???? I'm sorry but all of your lvl 20 characters are so helpless they cant get out of a frickin falling building. How (*#@(*&#$@$ lame. Oh, and why the heck is their only ONE female character you can possibly have any romantic involvement with...shesh. In NWN 1 you can manage to snag 2 at once at the end. So up until the end I'd give the game a 7 out of 10....but the end stinks. It's like the developers got drunk or stoned when finishing the game and thought "hmm how can we really make the game suck now that we're done". Maybe the expansion pack will be better. The evil character ending is better though, but still...what a let down.

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