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there's a 90% risk that the game is not compatible ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game crashed my hard drive and forced me to BUY a new one.
All of that happened after I unsuccessfully tried to install and run the game. I have a computer and engineering background, so this senario is not typical for me! I know what I'm doing and if it takes too long or if it crashes, most likely, it's not my fault!
The whole installation process was lagged (it would take several seconds for every move you'd make to respond) ... in the middle of the installation I was already frustrated but decided to finish it all the way, and then restart my system and see if it made any difference.
Well, it didn't.
I tried any display settings I could think of.
I updated (or checked for updates) on all my drivers.
I double checked anything I could possibly think of ...
and at the end, the game ran slower than a snail ... and to add insult to the injury, the next thing I knew, the infamous blue-screen was there!!! Last time I had a "blue microsoft screen" I was running windows NT, not XP!! Need I say that I was never able to recover my computer, or the data on my harddrive? I had to buy a new hard drive as the old one had been damaged beyond repair and ended up losing lots of data.
You've been warned! Buy and install at your own risk.

This game crashes every system I have tested it on

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

While long anticipated by D&D and Baldur's Gate fans alike, this product was released way before it completed an adequate QA cycle. I have tried to load this software onto several different machines on various versions of Windows with different hardware configurations and it crashed every single one of them! And I do not mean that the program crashes - it takes down the entire machine and you have to hard reboot and fix your file systems to recover -- even with an OS like Windows 2000. The patches do not help either. For game builders, the documentation on the scripting tools is also quite meager. My advice -- do not get your hopes up on this one and wait for version 2.0 on this product. Hopefully, they will get the bugs worked out of the product in 6-12 months and it will be better. I hope so. From all the marketing hype, it seems like it has the potential for being a terrific game. But, for now, it is version 1.0 Beta and not worth the frustration or the money ...

I you have alot of time on your hands this is a good time passer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok, it can have it's glitches now and then,but overall its a good way to spend your pocket change. When starting, a mage or other spellcaster is the worst pick, they range,sure but it takes awhile even in quickselect ; a ranger is far better. My advice is to make a rouge or secondary rouge to pick those locked chests and disarm the traps. This can really anger you if your killed by a trapped chest thats vital to open.plus(theories not confirmed)in the second chapter there is a door that leads somewhere that cannot be bashed with a 100+ lock on it.Another thing is the henchmen are always running off to kill a enemy while your still opening the chests in the first room.
The game itself is fun but the dungeons are difficult, even on easy mode a few moderate level monsters are lethal. I advise buying this game with an expansion pack like shadows of the undertide or ect. Despite those drawbacks overall this is a game to be on your shelf, its over 100 hours of good gaming and sure to be worth the cost

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For this price, I don't see any reason for anyone who enjoys RPGs not to buy this.

The graphics are nothing spectacular now, but the storyline is absolutely amazing. The four chapters of the single player campaign will keep you -very- entertained for a long time.

The game play is easy enough (especially as a Ranger or Druid), the alignment consequences add to the 'roleplaying' aspect and there's really a lot of content there if you're into it. If you have the time and $10, get the game.

Was just ok for me

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is put together very well, I just could not stay interested in it since it had no 1st person view on it.

COULD BE MUCH BETTER

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I eagerly awaited the newest edition to the D&D genre, but have been displeased overall with Neverwinter. For me, the one of the biggest reasons to play is individual character development along with team development - meaning the party system. Also, the graphics of the game are not as good as I had hoped. Infogrames should take lessons from Blizzard entertainment and Warcraft 3. Running around in OK 3D is not near as fun as awesome enhanced 2D (like Warcraft 3...). Since I am not a huge fan of internet gaming and prefer the single player campaign I can say that overall the game is not living up to my expectations - I know it was developed for multi-player, but the game just isn't delivering what I had hoped. Still, it is way better than Pool of Radiance (don't buy that one!). I am hoping that Icewind Dale 2 will deliver more of what I am looking for in an RPG.

nice game but a bit too tame

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

played the single player part of the game, nice but none too original storyline, would have been more interesting if the developers went all out make it really gutsy, i find it too tame and perhaps ok with pre-teens, would have prefered if the developers added a language filter, some random events and generaly make it less homey. would like to see a bit more gore, the dialog is lame, and some of the henchmen's battlecry is too annoying example is Linu. this is stableto run, never had any problems with crashes, would be realy cool if this game is just as naughty as Fallout 2

Great Game, Great Price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought neverwinter for 8 bucks. Absolutely great. I never really played dungeons and dragons so it was a little confusing at first, but the game is fabulous. Learning curve seems a little longer than most games. Take an hour or so before you make your mind up on the game. Some of the negative reviews say its like diablo. What is wrong with being close to the best ranked pc game of all time(gamespot.com)? If you don't like the style of game dont buy it. Neverwinter is suposed to be a good rpg and it deliveres. If you don't like action rpg games, you cant criticise a game for being one. For what its suposed to be, its great. Similar to diablo, seems a little more complex. Gives characters a lot of room to devlope and be creative, so every character isnt the same. If you liked diablo or baulders gate, you got to try this game. (...)

Fascinating.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Neverwinter Nights, in my opinion, represents a new type of game. Mainly, a large world complete with it's own unique dynamics and quests, that can exist for only one person, or for any amount of people. Taken almost directly from the pages of AD&D guidebooks, Neverwinter Nights exposes us to a world unlike any other.

You start the game by choosing what you want to be, and how you want to be it. Several races (including Elves and Gnomes), and several classes, along with a point distribution system ensures that you play the game you want to play.

The UI is at first a little hard to get used to, but so are any games in this genre. You are faced with a lot of options, but they are all explained rather well by the quick introduction series that you go through before the game REALLY starts.

Once you understand the combat system, the magic system, and the henchman system, it's simply a matter of going out into the world and discovering things. The single player game takes the form of a series of quests, with branching subquests, which full out gives around 60 hours of gameplay to the casual gamer.

After you have finished, you may find yourself wanting to play online. You can set up your own server, or find one to play on. It's all free, because it's all player made! With multiplayer, a person can take the role of the dungeon master, just like pen and paper game, and build a world and a story for you to solve.

This game lacks in the graphics department (characters aren't well fleshed out, textures are monotonous) but on the flip side it doesn't require much to run. The graphical deficiencies are made up in the intriguing gameplay, and the ability to make a world to suit you, and have others participate.

Depends on player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Personally, I'm not a fan of D&D and so I have absolutely no clue about the rules of this game. The only reason I decided to give this game a [change] was because it was highly anticipated. Although there are many bugs and problems with this game (I only experienced 1), I find that the gameplay/storyline/graphics more than outweigh the problems. After reading some of the other reviews I must disagree with some of the people. I ran the game on my 800 mhz desktop with geforce 2 gts at 1280x1072 and 64-bit and it ran just fine. I have yet to have a game crash on me except for one of the downloaded modules which was poorly designed. I found the camera view to be very smooth unlike the person who said that this should have been first person... what the hell were you thinking? As for Diablo 2... yes it does have some resemblances such as the stone of recall but who would want to walk all the way to town and then back? Overall the game held my attention for about the 30 hours that I took to complete it and it has great future potential in the online modules.

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