Neverwinter Nights Gold

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $12.75

Features:

• A captivating Dungeons & Dragons role-playing experience
• Based in the Forgotten Realms, rediscover the magic or explore it anew
• Features Shadows of Undrentide and a number of stand-alone modules
• Includes an 80-hour official campaign, Aurora Toolset, and Dungeon Master client
• Access to a thriving player community brimming with content and support

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Typical RPG problems, disappointing toolset. [Posted on 2005-01-13]
While the game itself is fairly entertaining, it still has those typical design flaws programmers just can't seem to see. Inspite of being told to stay put, characters with you magicly show up next to you as you pass through some doorways, often right into a scene best handled alone. More often, very imaginative strategies will gather fewer experience than rushing blindly into battle. "Scripted events" (where your character is magicly thrown into a new situation or plot line which he or she has the power to control, but can not) can make thinking gamers feel cheated.
The much hyped toolset is a disaster for imaginative Dungeon Masters as the vast majority of "monsters" are of the humanoid type. If as game creator, you don't mind using the same basic type of creaures over and over, the toolset will work for you. Anyone very creative however, will see that most of those fantastic creations from the Monster Manuals can not be included in their game. Professional graphic artists may (in a conciderable amount of time) be able to create unique creatures. Anyone else however, is out of luck. Even if one would be satisfied using the provided monsters, they will be bombarded with the program language "scripting" needed to make events happen within their world. NWN with the expansion contained here had the potential to be great, but falls victim to typical computer RPG problems and unproductive tools for one's own imagination.

Fans of BGII may be dissapointed.  [Posted on 2006-03-29]
As a huge fan of Baldur's Gate II, I was expecting a lot more from this game. The party system is not at all like BGII. There are no romances or banter to be found, unless you engage in the online play. That, in and of itself, was the most dissapointing aspect of this game. The rest of the game was ok. The graphics are pretty nice, a little cumbersome at times. The plot is fairly interesting, perhaps a bit too easy for some. The game also offers a starting level to help train the new player on the various controls and console. Overall though, it just got really boring without the ingame banter/romances/mods that BGII had.

Blaaah [Posted on 2006-03-29]
It's not the follow-on to BG2 that I expected. I had high expectations for a game from bioware and I was truly disappointed. Having just one character under full control, and a second barely under control, isn't as much fun.

RPG geeks only [Posted on 2006-04-25]
If you are looking for a good RPG experience, then I would reccomend World of Warcraft instead. This game is fun, but is has the 'raw' feeling of an easily hackable game. This is because they include the developement package that they themselves used to create the the game. That's not only bad, though. It's also fun to create your own story and share it online with other NWN players. Great multiplayer aspect too. If this is your first RPG, choose something else.

Neverwinter Nights [Posted on 2008-05-25]
Once was a good game but has seen its day. Still good if you cannot afford online monthly payments.

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