Neverwinter Nights (Mac)

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $99.95

Features:

• Dungeons and Dragon-based Internet-enabled fantasy role-playing game
• Set in D and D's-based Forgotten Realms world
• Choose what skills and abilities you will develop as you voyage though Forgotten Realms
• DM Client allows nearly unlimited control for running your own adventures
• For 1 to 64 players (multiplayer requires Internet connection)

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card

Customer Reviews:

Excelent game [Posted on 2006-03-24]
This game is very fun and extremely addictive but it is also very long for a person who can't dedicate 12 hours a day on it like me. The basic story of the game is you are an adventurer in the city Neverwinter in the academy when a plaigue called the black death hits the city. In the first chapter, you have to find the cure to the plaigue by finding magical engridients guarded by powerfull creatures or parts of the creatures. There are four parts you need to get in all. Near the end of the first chapter, you learn that a cult is the cause of the plaigue and thus advances you to chapter two. In chapter Two you have to find where the cult is based and who is leading it and why. In the end of the first half of chapter two you find that the cult is based in Luskan, the city of disruption. In the second half you have to infiltrate the cults base which happens to be an very tall and well gaurded tower of high level mages and creatures. You first have to find your way in the tower which alone takes forever, then you have to get by all 9 levels of the tower to the pinnacle. There you find the cult leader, he runs from you leaving behind monsters. Then you find out what his mission is, to find the words of power. This leads you into chapter three. In chapter three you have to find the words of power before the cult does which is hard because for one, a guy knows where one of them is but wont tell you untill you find something that was stollen from her, second because it is rumored that they are gaurded by dragons. This is where I am in the game, I have been playing this game for over a year and I am barely half through it (I must say though that I only play for about three hours a week). I can't tell you how the third chapter ends or anything about the fourth chapter so lets move on to the game ratings. The graphics and sounds are very good but sometimes your henchmen get way behind you and they come flying out of no where. There is also a violence slider that is cool, it ranges from no blood to the person violently screaming in pain and blowing up with organs and bones with blood in a circle around where the guy you killed was. (I have my slider all the way toward Extreme) Game play is also great but also very long and there are litteraly hundereds of side quests to get you off track of your main quest (explained above) but the plot is rich and has depth. Replay value is great, there are numerous races to choose from like elf dwarf etc. and lots of classes to choose from like rogue (my favorite), fighter wizard and so on. Cheat system is good, you can get cheats to turn your enemies into flying cows and your basic invinsability, infinate gold and so on. NOTE!!!!!!! THE USE OF CHEATS WILL PREVENT YOUR CHARACTER FROM ADVANCING IN THE CHAPTERS OF THE GAME!!!!!!!! Difficulty, game is very challenging to people who are not experienced gamers but should be easy for anybody who plays D&D. I find myself dying very often which is bad because you loose XP and gold when you die, but you can return to exactly where you where via the mage that brings you back to life. Or if you can remember ( I can't) that at the start of game you are handed a magic object that transports you to the nearest temple where you can be healed buy supplies an stuff and when your done in the temple and in the surounding town you can return to where you where for a small fee via potal in temple. There is a game difficulty slider that lets you choose how hard the game is (Mine is all the way toward Easy) and you can pause and save whenever you want. NO REMEMBERING PASSWORDS TO WHERE YOU WHERE!!!!!!!! In general this is a good game worth your money if you are serious about beating it and doesn't give up, NOT FOR LEASURLY GAMERS WHO LIKE TO PLAY A GAME ONCE A WEEK FOR HALF AN HOUR!!!! This game will keep you buisy for a long long time but is worth it if you are patient.

boring game, bad AI [Posted on 2006-06-04]
While Neverwinter Nights can be fun to play, it's incredibly boring (both in comparison to Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale, and also just on its own terms.) The plot is straightforward, unremarkable and and consists mostly of "go here, find this, bring it back, and don't swallow your own tongue" busiwork, and the design of the game is incredibly frustrating: there are countless identical maps that are tedious to navigate, innumerable locked AND trapped chests/crates/barrels that contain nothing of value, millions of locked doors to random rooms filled with said chests/crates/barrels. You will kill hoards of unchallenging enemies and solve connect-the-dots-type plots, but there's no fun to it. The first chapter - which is set in the city of Neverwinter - is the most intriguing so far, since the plot is a little more open-ended and you can explore the various districts at your leisure. The later chapters seem much more linear (as well as disjointed and arbitrary - you randomly resurface in new cities searching for things that various people have told you are important for reasons never quite made clear) and the game suffers for it.

Also, the AI in the Mac version seems to be flawed: my character randomly gets stuck standing on walls. I think you can troubleshoot this at the MacSoft website, but it's still sort of a pain.

Left me a bit cold [Posted on 2007-02-07]
I wanted to like this one, I really did. Honestly though, it left me cold. While the graphics and sound were all decent enough, I just could not bring myself to care about my characters or the story. The story was very linear, and felt no emotional attachment to what I was doing with my character, unlike Baldur's Gate 2, which pulled me in with its eccentric characters and an environment that changed more according to my actions. Obviously, some people like this one, and it is certainly hard to find fault with the mechanics of it, plus it has a huge fan base of mods and multiplayer virtual worlds. But if you want an engaging story, I would look elsewhere.

Neverwinter Nights Review [Posted on 2007-09-04]
This game is what every RPG should be: full of adventure, a great story line, and a vast arsenal of weapons and spells for you to help create the ultimate character. The character creation is very in depth; giving you total control on how you want your character to perform. The controls are easy to use, and best of all it's challenging. I highly recommend this game to anyone in love with RPGs

Almost perfect. [Posted on 2008-05-28]
Some of the missions have glitches. I was not able to complete a couple of them and it was a little frustrating no matter what I did. Can't beat the fun factor though. Expect to put the social life on hold once you start the game.

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