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Summary: Quality D&D fun, but not for the LAN set
Review: In single player mode, I found the game to be fun and not too hard / not too easy at its default setting. I would have liked to have more than one other party member, though. The graphics were adequate if not spectacular and the interface was pretty simple to master.LAN play was another matter. I bought this game over others (such as Dungeon Siege) because it seemed to offer the best opportunity to play a cooperative D&D game with my ten year old son on our home network. Unfortunately, the CD-key system will not let you play over a home LAN unless you purchase a separate copy for each computer. This method of copy protection for a LAN seems overly harsh and I will not spend the money for a second copy. I have been so steamed over the LAN situation that I haven't tried internet multiplayer mode, but it sounds good.
Rating: 
Summary: A Fabulous Game
Review: I absolutely love this game. I played the single player campaign through twice just to catch all the things I missed the first time through. The storyline is rich, the voice acting is very good and non-repetitive, and the graphics are excellent. I normally don't really pay attention to the storyline in games of this nature (see Dungeon Siege), but I found myself reading every line of conversation out of interest. Love, betrayal, good, evil, it's all there. You can also play your character as a simpleton (low intelligence) and the game will modify conversations to reflect the fact that people consider you an idiot. I highly recommend playing at least once as an ugly fool, the dialog is side splitting funny. The user interface is better than some I've seen, but could use some improvement. Overall though, getting things done is pretty easy with mouse clicks and hotkeys. The game uses a combination of real time combat, with use of the pause button to queue up actions so you can line up special attacks or spells. You are limited to hiring one henchman and summoning creatures to fill out your party (so max of 4), which I find easier to manage, although some might be turned off by not being able to create a party. Some complaints I have about the game are that there are a few stability issues, I've gotten the blue screen of death a few times playing this. The AI pathfinding is pretty bad, especially for your hired henchmen that follow you around. I have a system that almost exactly meets (slightly exceeds) the recommended system specifications and the game lags in city and other heavy population areas on very low detail graphic settings. It's managable though, more of an annoyance than a show stopper. However, I don't see how this game could possibly be playable with the minimum specs.. Also, the default camera views are absolutely horrible, it's like they couldn't decide if they were going to make an FPS or an RTS view and ended up with a cruddy version of both. Fortunately someone developed a camera hak with the tools included in the game and the view is much improved with a short download. Overall though, I would not let the complaints get in the way of a highly enjoyable gaming experience. This review is based entirely on single player.
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Summary: The future of roleplaying...
Review: Neverwinter Nights might just be the
thing to create an explosion of new D&D RPGers.
Why, you ask, would such a
game deliver where so many have
promised and fallen short?
Primarily, it's because the game's multiplayer
potential is HUGE. With an incredibly
simple dungeon editor, even the most
unimaginative, dice-hating newbies should
be finding themselves enjoying a traditional
DM-hosted game. Already clans and servers
are forming, and I foresee this game becoming as popular in multiplayer circles as Diablo II, CounterStrike,
and other games. NWN could even hold its own
against MMORPGs,being free to play and FAR
less time consuming than EverQuest,for example. Despite what other reviewers have
said, the single-player campaign
is excellent. The game does not focus
on a specific group of levels like
Baldur's Gate I and II did, allowing the
player to enjoy all aspects of the gaming
spectrum, from newbiedom to godlike powers
at level 20. The rules are completly
faithful to third-edition rules.
While the gameplay is cliche-ish at first,
the plot and quests are totally engrossing by Chapter 2. Does this mean NWN is perfect? No.
As with any other game, Neverwinter
has its share of flaws. While the
graphics don't really meet up to
the hype, they are still much better
than any BioWare D&D title
to date. The game is pretty buggy,
but generally the bugs don't interfere
too badly with gameplay, and patches are probably on their way. I greatly anticipate the expansion and the sequel.
Rating: 
Summary: More bugs than 99% of the games out there
Review: This game has been incredibly buggy for me. I've tried every patch, and 1.23 and 1.24 (only available on the support forum right now) do not work for me -- the game just won't even play. So I've reverted to 1.22 for now. Each patch fixes some things and breaks some others. Here is a list of all the bugs I personally have had to deal with. Some of the bugs below have finally been fixed with patches, but some still exist (freezing 4 minutes after launch is what happens if I use the current patches), so be forewared before buying this game. After initial install, the first run of NWN causes a config utility to launch. It tries to autodetect your hardware. It crashed at 11% every time. Upon launch, the initial company logos/movies play, and then the screen fades to black and stays there. Once in the game, FPS drops to 1 per second, or less. Character movement is nearly impossible, and certainly unplayable. The game has a bug which causes it to sometimes corrupt a file and then it won't display ANY text. Dialogue becomes impossible, and clicking buttons is guesswork. Going into the Advanced sound options caused my settings file to be set to the wrong sound card (even if the correct card was displayed on screen), which caused the game to freeze. Random freezes about 15 minutes to 4 hours into the game, forcing reboots. Consistent freezing exactly 4 minutes after launch, while still in the "create character" screens (usually around the Alignment selection, but if I went fast I could squeeze a few extra clicks into that 4 minutes). One particularly brutal freeze somehow corrupted my disk, and when I tried to reboot, my computer complained that there was no bootable OS installed. I had to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows from scratch.
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Summary: The Better Alternate: Dungeon Siege
Review: I recently downloaded the Dungeon Siege demo and installed it for a night of video gaming fun. Typically, I don't play video games, but recently I felt like a different sort of recreation and I must say I was delighted to have stumbled on to Dungeon Siege. It mesmerized me with beautiful graphics, incredible attention to detail, the seemless (it never stops to load a level) and overwhelmingly fun gameplay. I was so excited about it I played the entire 10% provided by the demo, and I'm sure--had there been more--I would have stayed up well past 3am playing until exhaustion overtook me. I even taught my brother the game and watched him play out the entire scenerio again, I was so immersed in the splendor. Enter Neverwinter Nights: They provide a lot of extras (esp. concerning the extensive D&D rules) that are very nice, but I've got to say "overall, it's just not as fun as Dungeon Siege." The graphics engine is choppy and second-rate compare to the stellar engine of Dungeon Siege. Some Neverwinter Nights review, huh? Can you tell I'm biased toward Dungeon Siege? In short: Dungeon Siege is all about the action and Neverwinter Nights, the story. Playing Neverwinter Nights is like reading a book after a while. I highly recommend "Dungeon Siege". It's much more fun!!
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Summary: Awesome Game :)
Review: i read other peoples posts on the offcial forums and i saw that many people complained about the game so i decided to download the warez version to check it out and it was awesome except for the fact that after 10-15 mins of gameplay it froze up, so i thought maybe it does that because its the warez versoin so i went on ebay and bout the game and sure enough it did the same thing, but i didnt give up so i posted on the forums for a few days with my problem and i found many similar posts with the same problem as mine, then 1 guy told my that you cant use the newest ATI drivers and to install the older drivers so i did that and now its runner soo smooth and i just love this game, as for the toolset.. thatsone of the best parts, im currently working on and adventure set in a village called crimmor and the options are just awesome. well all i have to say is this game is great i give it 5 stars
Rating:
Summary: Bland singleplayer and a community that may never develop
Review: The single player campaign was horrible. The graphics are very dated. The engine seems fine but the poly count and texture are are abismal. All the texture art looks the same. Everyone claims the multiplayer community will save this game. It's been months and it hasn't yet. 95 out of 100 user made modules are total garbage and 99% of one-off Gamespy multiplayer games are no fun at all. The toolset is weak and the scripting language is arcane. Skip this title at all costs
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Summary: i waited years for this?
Review: i am a dnd player, so i have been awaiting this game for quite some time to see if it lives up to its promises. i bought the game the day it came out, bout a new video card, and was nearly shaking with joy that it was finally here! i went home instlled my new video card, plopped in the game, and plopped in neverwinter.i started the character creation and it was skippin like crazy.i thought, hmmm maybe it is just that part. so i went into the game, and magicaly my character would start teleporting across the screen. so it has been a few months, patches and so forth, and no fixes. i updated all my drivers, and still dosnt work. so i became sick of the game and turned it in for a great game, Morrowind. this game has depth, u can do anything, i have played over 100 hrs and still havnt touched the main story line. def. get this game instead of neverwinter. oh yea and i know that this game is mainly for the editor, we'll at at least morrowinds open'd for me! unlike neverwinters, which gaveme some error message. def go get morrowind.
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Summary: Visit their support forums first, apply patches
Review: BEFORE YOU BUY this game, be very careful. Their support forums are crowded with tens of thousands of people having problems, even after many patches. I bought the game the day it came out. It already had a patch available, and I installed it. I ran the game and it wouldn't even get past the "detecting hardware" screen. I then installed patch 1.20 a few days later, and it wouldn't get past the opening movie -- the screen just went blank. Then I installed the 1.21 patch a couple weeks after that, and the game jittered, lagged, and quickly crashed so badly that my computer wouldn't reboot and I had to completely reinstall Windows. I skipped 1.22 and then tried again with the 1.23 patch. Now I can get into the character selection window and usually make it far enough to select my character's alignment, but then the sound stutters into a loop and the screen locks up. It is now months past the game launch, I cannot return the game, and I have never been able to run it. I hear this "only" happens about 5% of the time, so most of you can ignore this review. But for every 20 people who buy the game, one of you is going to find that even with a fast computer, updated drivers, and repeated effort, you cannot play the game. It is simply too buggy. I think it is only fair that you know this before you buy, so that if you start having problems, you return it quick before the time runs out. My time ran out, and I'm stuck with a game that has never once worked.
Rating:
Summary: Best...Game...Ever..
Review: Interface is nice, storyline good and online play even better , not to mention the toolset.Very nice RPG. Could have used more henchmen but it's still good.Waiting for expansion already.
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