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What NWN2 should have been to start with

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Many new things are added in this expansion. The plot for the new campaign is interesting, but seems a bit forced. The new races, which consist primarily of the various types of genesai, are absolutley terrible, as is the half drow. The epic levels are good and seem well thought out, although it only goes to level 30, rather than 40, like it was in the original NWN. The new prestige classes are average to poor, but the new primary class, the favored soul, is a good option for people wanting both melee skill and the versatility of a sorcerer.

In addition, several tweaks seem to have been made to the game engine. The game runs much more smoothly, and cut scenes no longer suffer from glitches. This greatly improves the experience.

A game that ended a 4-year slump on the RPG market

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

21st century hasn't been a particularly good era for RPGs. Despite its fast start (Baldur's Gate 2 and Arcanum) a downhill trend as far as RPG quality is concerned soon became apparent. With Vampire: Bloodlines (2004) being the last quality RPG and still failing to achieve commercial success, followed by demise of Troika games, RPG market became dominated by generic RPGs, exploring generic setting, with generic protagonist and generic NPCs, generic plots and generic dialogues suitable for cerebrally challenged audience. Paragons of RPG dumbification were Morrowind and especially Oblivion, where the essence of RPG, choice and consequence, was utterly lost and dialogues were, to say it mildly, retarded (so they can match Radiant AI). Unfortunately, since both mentioned games were appealing to a wider, less demanding audience, other developers followed suit and quality on the RPG market was nowhere to be found.

Unlike its predecessor (the original NWN 2 campaign), which was a huge disappointment, Mask of the Betrayer excells in almost every RPG aspect. A very interesting plot takes place in a rarely explored setting of Rashemen, with its unique connection to the world of spirits and the main theme. NPCs and the main characters are well developed through dialogues and plot advancement, with NPCs motives and personalities exposed clearly and in an intriguing manner. I haven't encountered such well written dialogue, interesting plot and compelling characters since Planescape: Torment (1999). Main theme represents a refreshing addition to the game mechanics as well. There are plenty of choices, both those regarding the main theme and those not directly connected to it, and naturally, most of those choices entail distinct consequences for the game world and the player.

So, this game has managed to capture the essence of RPG gaming on PC and hopefully it will help reverse the trend of simplification of RPGs. I consider it among the top 10 games I've ever played.

Atari is on the right track!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm very excited with this title as i've waited forever for this expansion pack to come out. Great graphics, great sound, and overall great overall gameplay. I haven't put this game down since i got it the other day.

I love Atari

F@#$

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

With this expansion, the curse you get is lame, and makes the game almost annoying instead of fun. I feel rushed. I don't recommend playing any class that requires resting to cast spells. I learned this after investing 4 hours of time with an Eldritch knight. Rest = die. It will likely piss you off. Other than that, mostly fun.

high degree of difficulty and frustration outweigh depth, fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The "spirit-eater" aspect to this game makes it ridiculously, rigidly difficult to do anything, get anywhere, without backing yourself into a dire situation you can't escape from, much less function in. Fortunately, online I found a cheat code to turn it off, and then the game became enjoyable. Either I'm a total RPG wimp, or else this game is for a more hardcore type of player.

Watching paint dry is more exciting.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: October 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've never played a neverwinter nights game before so I decided to try out mask of the betrayer after doing a little research and watching a few gameplay movies.

Well to say I'm unimpressed would be an understatement. The controls are clunky and difficult including everything from fighting, walking, trying to explore or even camera movement. I actually thought I would need a motion sickness pill with all the jerky movement... Simple things like moving and camera movement quickly become hassles and a pain.

The story so far seems like something a 9 year old made up... My character pissed off a bear god and now this bear god and some of his spirit friends are waiting outside the city gates to kick my [...].I mean if this bear god had any self respect he and his friends would just level the whole freakin city instead of waiting outside the city gates like some two-bit street thugs...

The game has bugs, quite a few... I had to start over after a npc that I was talking to started attacking me for no reason and My ally kills her.

Combat isn't very exciting, hit, pause, hit, pause, hit, pause ...that gets old very fast to someone like me that has never played these games before...

The graphics are okay... The controls and camera are to much of a hassle. The story is really pathetic so far...I'm giving the game 3 stars because there is some potential that it could get better the deeper I go into the game, hopefully.

I really can't recommend this game to anyone that hasn't played this type of game before...

**UPDATE**
A few months later I still stand by everything in my review, this game bored me, so I stopped wasting my time trying to give it a chance to impress me. Waste of my time and money. I found "Two worlds" better than this game, and everyone knows what a steaming pile that game is.

not too happy with it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping they would fix the camera problems in the expansion pack but they didn't! So you have to deal with the camera swinging all over the place. I didn't really like the whole spirit-eater thing...not enough instruction on how to use it so you just kind of fumble through. The ending battle is so long I wondered if I had somehow gotten into a loop and if I should reload my game. All in all...not very satisfying.

NWN 2 - fun for old-time D&Ders

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played Advanced D&D through my teen years, but stopped getting together with other players in late-night dice-rolling sessions when I "grew up". The NWN series (going back to the oringinal NWN on AOL) rekindled my interest in the game. The computer acts as the DM, which is fine with me. Anytime I want to play the game and just engage my imagination, I can hop onto my computer. The online NWN2 world is getting better all the time, as more people write better mods, but it has yet to catch up to NWN1 in the variety of mods you can download and play. On the other hand, it hasn't been around as long.
Anyway, NWN2 and its expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, are a lot of fun. You need a good video card, though!

Should be Rashaman Nights, not Neverwinter Nights

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Its a LOT harder than any of the previous games, its a good game but I had to switch from normal to easy play to be able to complete it for my cleric, but the game did arrive as scheduled and I have no problems with the shipper/seller.

I thought it was actually better than the original campaign

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played most of the major BioWare (as well as others') RPGs -- Baldur's Gate, Planescape, even the most of the original Ultima series -- and really enjoyed this game. Engaging story line, rich characterizations, good NPC AI, immersive environments.

In many ways I found this even better than NWN2 OC, because frankly, I found all the empire-building aspects of that game very tedious after a while, what with building the castle, etc.

The thematic plot of the game really played on the good versus evil aspect that's so much a part of the series (as evidenced by the stress on character alignment) and though the nature of the ultimate foe wasn't a surprise (and I won't say more to avoid spoiling) I think it was very well executed, and a lot of fun.

The side quests aren't just go-fetch, either. They add a lot to the game, and are fun in and of themselves.

Buy it and enjoy!

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