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These people are unworldly

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Now, first off I'd like to say that this game is too incredible for any non-D&D player to experience. If you don't play D&D, go kill monsters in diablo or something...
I was once told that D&D was created after Diablo. I almost cried in my computer chair...well...not really, but I was getting angry. Now, this game is indeed incredible, and they did indeed do an outstanding job at turning D&D into a computer game. I was satisfied with their skill system, their feat system, the combat system, the controls, the monsters, and the character creation. It felt like I was playing D&D, except that I couldn't roleplay.
Using spells and skills is really easy, and you can assign them to hotkeys which make accessing them much easier. You can attack, use skills, and do many other actions by right-clicking on the target, such as pick-pocketing (Which I thought they did a marvelous job at), and you can even use the Hide in Shadows skill to hide from NPC's, and other players online.
The gameplay is really nice, making everything about the game really fun. They really stayed true to the D&D rules (Which I did NOT expect), monsters, and magic items. Moving around is easy, combat is easy, and everything else is just great. Really the only thing that I could find bad about the game is that everytime you enter a new area you have to wait for it to load.

You start the game by creating a character (and you can customize every bit of it too), and then immediatley entering the game.
The only real downside to the game is that you can only have one character, although you can hire a henchman.

Alright, I know that this review isn't professional, and it wasn't very clear, but what I'm trying to say through it all is-If you are a D&D table-top player, and you're looking for a D&D game, you won't find any better than this.

It'll probably be tricky for Non-D&D players to learn (but you shouldn't be playing this game unless you table top), but if you know the 3rd edition rules, then there's nothing else to know :)

So, once again, if you are a tabler-topper, then this is YOUR game.

ROCK AND ROLL D&D!!!!!!

Typical RPG problems, disappointing toolset.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

Avoid the European version.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While this is a great package of a great game and its expansion one should be aware of the European version of the "Gold Edition" which does not include neither manual nor map.

What is this?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought NWN Gold because I had heard so much good about. People I know who had been in love with Diablo 2/Warcraft/Starcraft quit it to play this. After a little over 12 hours of gameplay, I've concluded that this game overall, sucks.

Why?

A couple of major issues. First off, it's run online by gamespy network. Talk about a poor setup. The friends list takes 15+ minutes to actual find anyone on there that's online, and the overall feel is just...sloppy.

Finally (yes only two flaws managed to make me hate this game) is the gameplay. Everyone seems to love BioWare, but this game honestly isn't much different from their other games. Their D&D 3 edition rules setup isn't that bad, but after playing KotoR and Baldur's Gate, etc. it felt like BioWare just changed a couple of textures and spell names, and then packaged it with a new game name. The real problem I found was how slow this was. The biggest advantage this game was "supposed" to have was being above and beyond the hacknslash. Hah, pure deception. It just runs like a much much slower Diablo 2, and does all the attacking automatically. Not to mention how sluggish the characters move.

The graphics are great however, and the music is top knotch.

The problem is, alot of reviews are trying to make this game sound like something it is not. It is hacknslash, except it does all the hacking and slashing at a snails pace.

Commendable effort, but it amounted to nothing to this gamer.

Gets a little tedious - not for children

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Never have I played such a visually stunning and impressively massive game. It is just enormous. There are so many places to go and people to talk to it's incredible. That said this game lacked a little something. As much as it was fun to complete quests and roam the picturesque landscape it really got repetitive after a while. All the characters stood pretty stationary and in some areas the quest line could be very easily broken if you weren't careful. The beasts weren't very challenging to fight either. Often all it took to kill a beast is a couple of swipes with your blade; this even includes many of the greater beasts. This game is more about storey line than anything and the themes start to recur after a while. The characters lack voice - while people do greet you with an auditory comment that is all they ever say. It is up to you to engage them and click through the mass of topics they have to talk about and memorize what they have to say.

I also wouldn't suggest allowing children to play this game as it has many adult themes. For example: Slaves - which you can free or engage in buying / selling. Stripper clubs - where you can talk with the actively dancing girls. Homosexuals - which will require you to strip your clothing in order to advance a level. Gangs - most which will request you to eliminate other gangs. Theft - which you will get away with as long as your stealthy or strong enough.

In all this is an impressive game simply because of sheer size and beauty. Otherwise it is lacking depth.

A game that will stay in the hearts of true gamers forever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Now I am a big time gaming person, especialy when it comes to computer games, its my hobby and dream job. And I can say this is one of the best games created for both Single Player and Multiplayer, its character creation is amazing, its storyline very interesting, and the expansions *grins widely* definently impressed, and I can definently tell one of the top games of its Genre. If you love Roleplaying games then this is for you, the game play is never ending when it comes to how many modules and the expansions.
I myself play on many servers and partisipate in many roleplay events on the servers cause the fun never seems to cease. I have had this game for years and haven't lost interest in it in the slightest.

Matt "Game Head" B.

Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is really a good game. but you have to have areally fast computer to play it but otherwise it is a good game. I have found the pregenerated characters to be useful, and i have found time and time again i hit the recommended button.

Fans of BGII may be dissapointed.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

It Will not work on AGP Cards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 50
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

the VisiontTek Xtasy 9800 PRO 256 MB DDR AGP will not work for it.

Very in-dept game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 50
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I haven't actually gotten to play this game because my computer is very old and slow so it doesn't work well, but I have created a characrer, and even by that I caould tell it would be a good game. This isnt like other games like Baldur's Gate, or Diablo where you just pick a character, and go. Here you pick class, race, look's, skill's, stat's, attitude (like good, neutral, or evil), and even voice. I have also read a lot about it and it seem's like a lot of fun. I especially want to try the toolset and make my own level to play in. The online play also sounds great. All in all this sound's like a very fun game and I can't wait to try it.

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