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Solid game, but the Official Campaign sucks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game, but don't worry about playing the Official Campaign. It's not very good. However the user content is amazing. Some of the best modules are Shadowlords and Dreamcatcher (http://adamandjamie.com/nwn/).

One of my favorites...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my favorite games, right up there with Starcraft Broodwar and Counterstrike 1.6. This and those two games are about the only video games I ever play anymore, and with good reason. They are awesome games. The campaigns are fantastic, but what is possibly my favorite is the online play with other people. This is a must-have for any D&D player or RPG lover.

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.

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

A Good, Fun RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Neverwinter Nights game series is one of my all time favorite, if not favorite, games. It's strength lies in it's diversity. This is not just one single player game nor is it just one multiplayer game. It can be about anything you want it to be. The game comes with one story to play through with many side quests. The game is massive, which is good and bad. Sometimes things seem to drag on, but then they pick up again. Overall it is a good story that will take up a lot of your time and keep you entertained.

Once you have completed the main campaign, unlike in most games, things are not over. You still have many choices. Since you get to create your own character and shape it how you want, you can always play through again with a character completely different than the one you just played. One negative to the story the game comes with though is that regardless of your character the story does not change much if at all, only how your character handles things. If you tire of that story you can download countless others that have been created by other creative players or Bioware. These vary in style and quality but there are many good campaigns out there to entertain you, all for free. Though Bioware does have some that you can pay to download, all player created content is free.

Think you have a good idea for a campaign? Think you can do better than Bioware or others? Then go for it! Neverwinter Nights comes with a toolset that has everything you need to create your own stories and worlds.

Tired of playing single player games by yourself? Then just connect to the internet and look through the many campaigns or persistent worlds that other players have created and are playing 24/7, all for free. Chances are you will find some place that feels right to you. Or create your own and have others enter your world and be at your mercy.

Neverwinter Nights is over 4 years old now. This should not put anyone off from buying this game. In fact it is a big plus. It means it is cheaper now than it was when it was new. There is still a good community with plenty of content to find to download. Most if not all the bugs you might have read about have been worked out by now, and work arounds have been made for things that were found limiting originally. Bioware has not left the game alone either as an update was just recently released and they have released new campaigns to download. Being older the graphics may not be top notch for today's standards, but they are still very pleasing with beautiful scenery whether you are walking through a zombie infested city or taking a nice stroll through an autumn woodland.

For what you get with Neverwinter Nights it is well worth the price. If you want to get the most out of the game though you really need to buy all the expansions. Buy Neverwinter Nights alone if you want to just take a test drive but if you want to really get the most out of the game spend the few extra dollars and get the bundled packages that include all the games and be sure to check out the Bioware forums.

FANTASTIC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me say first, that when I first bought this game and installed it, played it for an hour or so, I didn't think I liked it, however, I realized that it takes time to get use to the camera angles, the combat system and the overall feel. So, I took a break and went back the next day and really gave it an effort and well, I love it! It's an awesome game...

It has a nice modding community, even comes with its own toolset so you can create your own maps, dungeons, etc.

It has a wonderful auto updater that will download all the latest patches for you among other things, like previews on new games from the ever so wonderful BioWARE corp.

Bioware puts out incredible, addictive and just super excellent games. Virtually BUG free as well. I was a huge fan of the Baldur's Gate games and played those for years. That's why it took me so long to get around to NWN. lol.

Well, Bioware, congrats, because I think you lived up to your name once again with NWN. It's not the same as their Baldur's Gate, but does have some of the same feel and game play.

The storyline is very good and you can interact with TONS of NPC's. Some people don't like it because you can only travel with up to 1 NPC and you really have no access to their inventory to give them stuff or help you carry things, but it's not that big of a deal. Sometimes it is better playing with just your character alone. Yes, sometimes, NPC companions get in the way.

The combat system takes awhile to get use too, but is nicely done. You can target one enemy and your character will attack all enemies in the area, taking out one at a time. This is nice, because you don't have to keep pointing and clicking on each enemy.

The movement has 3 different camera angles to choose from, so you will have to decide which one you like best, or just keep changing from view to view. It's quick and easy.

The character creation is awesome, and although the portraits are not that good, you can go online and download character portrait packs, even Baldur's Gate II pic packs are available. It's nice.

You can choose between various races, sub-races and classes, including sub-classes, just like BGII. You can be Human, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Halfling or even create a custom race.

The classes are awesome. Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer and Wizard. Also, remember, you can have sub-classes as well. You could easily spend hours just in the character creation alone.

There are alignments, Deities and a HUGE spell table.
There is so much I could say about this, but I will stop and let you decide. Yes, just buy it and lose yourself, because you will.
I can't say I like NWN as much as their BGII, but it's close, dang close.

HAVE FUN!

Good, but too limited

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game does a good, though not perfect job at implementing D&D 3rd edition rules. The main storyline of the game is interesting. The game allows for multiplayer, and also comes with a kit for modding. I quite liked the combat system in this game.
One thing that I really didn't like about this game is that it's very not open ended. There's one set way to do just about everything in this game. If you play an evil or chaotic character there's little chance to actually do things the way a character of that alignment should. This game is very strongly geared towards lawful, or neutral good characters, and it makes me wonder why they even allow you to be any other alignment.
There's very little room for character development, which doesn't bother me in other styles of games, but is something that an RPG like this really needs in my opinion. Also there were parts of the game that really really dragged on way too much.
However I did really like both of the expansions for this game, though they too were very set in stone as far as how things are going to play out.

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. (...)

a good rpg

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

thanks amazon readers for bringing life back to this game. i had finished the first chapter and uninstalled it a few months back. i hated the limited camera angle where you could not see beyond few feet. then, i came across a review which said that you could hack the camera angle. thank you thank you, for now i have renewed interest in the game - the 3d camera works well.

the graphics are not that good (and bloatware) compared to knights of the republic which uses less memory and has much better graphics (why can't they develop nwn with kotor graphics engine beats me..)

anyway, the story is good if not great, and character development is fun (i am using a paladin/theif along with linu the cleric). gameplay is good and lasts hours and hours.

a great game for rpg fans!

No internet connection needed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has been one of my favorite games since its release.

Please do not be detered by the "internet required" review as I have played this game with and without an internet connection with no problems at all.... unless you want to play the player made mods, and play online with other people... it is NOT necessary to be connected to the net if you only want to play through the single player campaigns... which, by the way combined with all the expansions is easily over 100 hours of game play.

To this day this game is one of my favorites, that I still play regularly, and I eagerly await Neverwinter Nights 2.

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