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I loved the first- and this was horrible!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 24
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Please do not waste your money, like I did. The game is VERY buggy, and has tons of broken elements. It was clearly done on a low budget, and is just leveraging the great success of the first version.

The graphics look like they are from the mid-90's, and the gameplay is just... a joke. So sad- I wish I could get a refund. Especially, because my game broke only part way though. (my brothers snagged on a bug even earlier). I feel robbed and cheated... and mostly just dissapointed.

Rushed and Buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I previously reviewed this and gave it a slightly higher rating - my score has come down because the more I play it the less satisfied I become. First, NWN 2 has none of the stuff that made NWN good (and I didn't care for NWN that much). And it has none of the things that made games like Baldur's Gate (which I liked) fun. So it basically is a failure on a number of fronts.

The user-interface is terrible, for example click a button which brings up a menu and you can pick inventor - very clumberson - in Baldur's Gate, for example, you could just click on the person icon and have an inventory.

Camera angles are a major pain and things are always blocking your view. Interior views are just annoying.

Tons of bugs because of the tons of cut scenes (which are mediocre and have poor voice acting in general) - the bugs are slowly being elimiated with patches but right now the game is more of a beta then in production shape - it is unacceptable when you cannot finish the first level because of a bug - which a recently released patch has fixed.

Graphically stale but requiring a major PC to run - system recommendations are not even close to what is required to run the game at an acceptable frame rate with the effects turned on.

Party AI is okay for fighters (fair amount of running past one bad guy to get another bad guy for no partciular reason except to give the first bad guy a attack of opportunity) but if you switch between players, the computer takes over and does what it wants with the other players. So if your scorcer is using a crossbow to conserve magic and you switch to control another player, the computer starts running through spells and ignores what you had the sorcer doing. Luckily the fights are pretty simple so there is not much need for tactics - which you couldn't use if you wanted to.

So it basically is one of the worst D&D games I have played to date from a user interface standpoint. The story may be fine but I am usually so annoyed that I don't care. Which is a shame - this game with some polish could have been something. Stay away unless you are sadistic or you plan to use the toolset to make your own games. The 8.5 that IGN gave this game was WAY to high - it should have been about a 5.0. The fact that you can make your own game does not make this game worth anything - it just gives certain people a reason to buy this terrible game anyway.

Not a suitable successor to NWN (Expanded after 20+ hours use)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Many bad things about this title and performance isn't one of them for me as it runs fine.

Bad:
Radial menus are gone.

No more quick chat options like greetings and goodbye.

Campaign is linear.

No exploration as there are no longer any area transitions. Go to world map, click area, fight in small area, go to world map, continue over and over.

Toolset is not intuitive and frustrating to use. If you think NWN's was difficult this one is much worse. NWN's is far superior in ease of use.

There are very few tilesets and they lack what NWN's have.

There are no longer any Item, Monster, Clothing, wizards in the toolset.

They used the same character soundsets as NWN but they're worse.

Camera edge scrolling is too slow to use effectively. There is no way to adjust edge scrolling.

Chase camera is useless underground because walls obstruct view.

Cannot put 2 weapons or shield and weapon on quick slot - Dual Wield

Cannot unequip a weapon using quick slot. It must be done manually from the inventory screen.

Cannot put skills/feats on quick slots.

AI party characters get stuck and cannot move.

AI party characters must be micro managed as the AI is horrible. You have to keep pausing the game to get everyone working together, unpause for a few seconds, pause and rearrange them, and so on, and so on.

AI sometimes will not do what you order them to.

Direction keys WASD over control movement making it very difficult.

New targeting system is difficult and you end up casting spells on the wrong target constantly.

No Linux support.

No Great Cleave of Coup-de-Grace animations. the monsters around you just drop dead without anyone touching them.

Cannot drag a box or ctrl click all of your party members to select them all; Like older titles from Obsidian??

Character heads pretty much all look them same. You can give them different hair styles though.

Hardly any monsters. They used different colors or just renamed some monsters with the same model. The first part of the campaign is just fighting dwarfs. No Minotaurs, Hobgoblins, only 2 dragons.

no rideable horses which NWN has

DM client is beta as they planned not to add one even though the 1st has it

Large persitant worlds are gone because of huge memory requirements (Developer's own words) This is probably why it shipped with D&D online a pay per month subscription

Don't ask me how but there is lag in offline play

Non-stop cutscenes

Poor animations

No more character portaits

Hardly any variation in armor, weapons, clothing, items, etc - Falls way short of NWN

Graphics are better than NWN but mediocre when compared to other current titles. Frame rates are worse than titles with better graphics!

Obsidian dropped the ball on this one. They have not listened to the large NWN following and have implemented what they want, not the customer.

If you're thinking about buying, it is more like Baldurs Gate than NWN. Even the "You have been waylaid by enemies," on the world map is back. If you like Icewind Dale or Baldurs Gate you'll probably like this.

Neverwinter Nights it is not.

If you own NWN stick with it, if you like the sound of this type game buy NWN Diamond edition. It is far superior to NWN2.

Experience:
28 years D&D player, DM
NWN player since original release
PW world developer

Just awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have a fairly decent computer (which exceeds the system requirements), have almost all graphical options turned off and the frame rates are still horrible. The menu system is much worse than NWN. I played it for about an hour and was just so disgusted with the control and the frame rates that I quit playing. I downloaded the patch and it didn't help performance at all.

Does not support multiple platforms

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

NWN1 is possibly one of the greatest games ever. Besides having a good solid design, the two expansion packs, years of bug fixes, numerous commercial modules, hundreds of excellent player created modules, a enormous amount of player created content, and some very well done persistent worlds, they decided to not include a large portion of the audience. Linux and Mac players have been left out this time around.

Since I'm not about to spend $150 on Windows XP, nor I am going to built another PC for only running NWN2, NWN2 gets a big fat zero in my book. I'll keep playing NWN1 for now.

If Unsure of Specs, Don't Buy It

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have a custom built PC and have waited for 6 years to play this game. I got it for Christmas, thankfully off this webpage so I saved about 30 bucks, but was unsure of my PC specs- I have better specs than on the box's requirements, certainly, but the game still wouldn't work and the buyer I got it from had the nerve to tell me I couldn't refund it. Keep in mind this thing's built like a tank and my PC couldn't play it- and so I lost a chunk of money on the damn game.

I'm sure it's a good game, but look over your PC's specs and the minimum requirements here and wait until computer parts get a LOT cheaper before you bother upgrading your computer.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (YET)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Do yourself a favor and do some research before buying this game. There's ton of people out there who cannot run NWN 2 on their computers properly (i.e. extremely slow frame rate)even if the RECOMMENDED system requirement is exceeded!! Yes, there are some people who can run this game...played it... loved it... but they are few. Intalling the current patch does not help either. The game developer, Osidian, made some of my favorite game (e.g. Icewind dale, KOTOR 2, Planescape Torment) that ran well out of the box; therefore, this is both surprisng and disappointing. I am certain a proper patch will come out sometimes, and I will adjust my review accordingly, but until then, spend your money on something else.

UPDATE ON MY PRIOR REVIEW (ABOVE):

Yes, this game is patched (version 1.03) and is playable now. I've played it twice. Latest patch fixes lots of bugs but introduced some new bugs that Obsidian acknowledged, and said the it "may be" fixed in a future patch (??). With all the patches, this game is now passable to be called 'in the final stage of beta testing' Yes, it is released way too early just so most people can burn their money and feel pissed off over X-mas. Atari really blew it over this one and their stock value, if you follow it, relected this greedy & bonehead move.
It is really unfortunate, because it is a very good game, but it could have, and should have, been an outstanding game.
Some other reviewers have already nailed down what's good and bad. So all I will add is:
1) Make sure your game rig meets the recommended requirement (especially for video card) -- NOT the minimum requirement. Minimum requirement guarantees that you will have either slow frame rate, or you have to tune down a bunch of eye candies / resolution -- making the game looking not much better than NWN 1 !! (NWN 2 graphic is actually very decent)

2) Perhaps it's best to wait for a couple months to buy this game, unless you are a diehard NWN fan. This game, as is, is nor worth over $30.

Hopefully, Obsidian will learn from their mistake and redeem itself with some outstanding expansion to NWN 2 (and may be even Star Wars - Knight of the Old Republic 3)to make up for this blunder.

Bugs and more bugs!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played NW1 and loved it!
NW2 has lots of good stuff, but what high end system do I need? I met the min. requirements, but the frame rate is so slow that I can gave after a few hours of trying to play. I have a nvidia geforce ultra 5950 4 gigs of ram, 3,2 ghz motherboard, and 120 gig harddrive. I play a lot of online games like BF2, BF 2142, EQ2, WOW, etc...so my pc meets the demands. Why the slow or stop and go action?

Stay Away, SLOW!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bough this game with high expectations. I really like part one. Part two will not disappoint as the story go's, graphics and voice acting. It's very good. Why am I giving this only 1 start if it's good? The game is so slow that maybe in 3 years when I buy a new top end PC I'll be able to play it on Medium. I found the game unplayable on High. Medium is a flip book or power point presentation. I had to set everything in the game to the lowest settings in order to get somewhat good frame rate. I say somewhat because it still lags when monster swarm.
Because of this game, I reinstalled my OS, Windows XP Pro. I got all the latest drivers and updates; After installing the game I patched it and defragmented my HD. It did help a little. My system is AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+; 7200rpm Wester Digital HD, GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB; 3GB Ram. I play all sorts of latest games oh Highest settings and I have no problems with them. FEAR, PRAY, BF 2142, WOW

sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game itself looks awsome from the previews I have seen and I have played the prior released games. But this game is so NOT compatible with my new computer that I would have to pay $[...] more to upgrade a new computer to be able to play. That was a big disappointment itself. Why would anyone make a game that is so uncompatible with computers. It would download, but I could not play the game at all.

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