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Neverwinter Nights Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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

Left me a bit cold

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

boring game, bad AI

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: June 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Excelent game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Great, but not so expansive.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has an immersive plotline with several subplots. It plays like reading a good book or watching a good movie, only it's interactive. It is quite versitile and open in that you can use single-player characters in multiplayer, but restrictive in that ultimately, there's only one or two paths to follow. That goes for plotline, character development, and even the equipment you use. This is as much fun as real Dungeons and Dragons as far as adventuring goes, but I'd still rather have the face to face interaction, roleplaying, and character development that Neverwinter Nights lacks.

Great story, graphics, and sound. Subpar control & gameplay.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: March 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought a Mac and have decided to try computer gaming. I've been playing console games since NES, and have used computers for music and work, but I never mixed the two. The first game I bought was Neverwinter Nights as I love console RPGs and Action/RPGs. This is a cool game, with great graphics, but the gameplay is rather restrictive if your a console gamer.

I am trying to stick with this game, as I like the story and enjoy the general look and atmosphere of the game, but this is nothing like any console RPGs that I've played. You don't control your character directly the way I am used to with console games. I feel more like your character is an NPC and your sort of give him suggestions. There exists a layer of abstraction between you and your character, so you don't feel as though he is your onscreen representation (as you would with a Zelda or FF game) but rather a separate entity that you direct (another way to put this is, in a Zelda game for example, I would say "I'm trying to hit this enemy" or "I just ran across that bridge", In Neverwinter I'm more likely to say "I'm trying to get him to move" or "I want to get him to the other side of town"). You control your character by pointing him in the direction you want him to go with your mouse, he decides the path he takes and his exact movements himself. You click on enemies to attack them, but he doesn't attack when you click, but rather when he's good and ready, resulting in many an untimely death. Combat feels very forced and unruly - it's this element of the game that comes very close to ruining the whole experience. I'm progressing at a snail's pace, and will abandon this game if it doesn't become more fun in the near future.

Overall this seems like it could be a great game, if this sort of gaming experience fits your fancy. As a console gamer I just feel to detached from the action and not in enough control. I often find myself in situations (especially combat) where I'm thinking "If I could only control my character directly, or attack at will, this would be great fun". This game comes across allot closer to something like starcraft wrapped in the trappings of an RPG - I would almost call it an RPG/Sim. If your a computer gamer, this sort of thing might be your bag, but if your a console gamer, I'd be weary. I can tell there's a great game underneath it all, and that's why I'm plugging away at it though the fun has yet to start (I'm almost 10 hours into it without completing a single quest) - that and I spent 39 bucks on it, so I've got to at least attempt to get my money's worth. I would reccomend Neverwinter Nights to anyone who enjoys this sort of indirect control gameplay, as all other aspects of the game are top notch. I wouldn't reccomend it to someone from a console background.

P.S. There is a control scheme that tries to give your more control over your character, but it really doesn't work out so hot. You can tell how this game "wants" to be played, and it's not by direct control. Though it's borderline agonizing, your best off with the mouse.

Will Rule Your Free Time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It took a while for me to get this game mainly because I had a lowely 16 MB graphic card and after reading some reviews didn't think my 400 MhZ could run it. So with a 1.2 MhZ Sonnet upgrade and a 128 MB graphics card, Neverwinter Night runs well. One of my other inhibitions was from playing Baldur's Gate II and other RPG's that let you control and entire party instead of just one character. However, after playing NWN, I quickly got over it. The 3D graphics and ability to circle and tilt the camera, along with the raidial and hotkey menus, make game play simple. I played it through the first time with a monk, and he did die frequently even with the help of a henchmen, eventually he became awesome and able to quickly dispatch nearly any foe. Perhaps my only complaint is that the game isn't that long, but with two modules to add on and a slightly different experience depending on the class of your character, Neverwinter Nights is worth checking out.

Amazing Storyline and Gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow. Neverwinter Nights totally blows away all other r.p.g.s out for mac today. Terrific graphics and gameplay are just part of the package. The real gem quality in this game is its storylines and quests. Compared to Dungeon Siege, the intricate storylines provide a real feel for the world. It is almost as if you have been sucked into a really great fantasy novel, playing the main character. The A.I.s, for the most part, actually engage in conversation with your character and you can choose how you speak to them and deal with them. I really enjoy the large number of quests that you can pick and choose to complete. The ability to mold your character's personality through your words and actions is also a really great, fun feature. Overall, despite this game's flaws (of which I think there are few), I think the stories and characters make this game an amazing way to keep yourself out of touch with reality.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. The storyline that comes with the game gets kind of repetative, but I gave it 5 stars because you can download modules and play those as well as the origional story. There is an unsupported mac toolset called neveredit. It is freeware too. If you are interested in making your own modules, go to versiontracker.com and download it.

I could not turn it off...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I actually could not turn off the game.
It gave me hours of play and i really loved it.

It reminded me of Diablo 2 but i liked the player classes in this game much more :-)
I really did buy a game worth it :-)

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