Neverwinter Nights 2
by Atari
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Video Game Reviews of Neverwinter Nights 2
Customer Review: Love The Game
Summary: 4 Stars
U will need a strong pc for this game coz sometimes it loads a huge map and the pc will start to lag id say a core2 duo with a 7900 or 7950 geforce should do the trick. But the game is good and its very exciting, the storyline is a bit crap but the game is fun. Its also fun to play with your friends but i dont like it when ur friend can skip the lines be4 u can read or understand. So i suggest playing the game solo first to know it better. I gave it 4 stars coz in the end u HAVE to use a sword, so if ur an archer u will have a bit of a drawback as u cant use swords properly, U can multi class but i dunno how good it will do you if u want the full potential of a ranger. But the game is very nice and im looking forward to playing the expansionCustomer Review: Unacceptable because of SecuROM
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this game, it's now shelfware. I didn't play it nor will I ever. The problem is that in order to play the game, one must insert the game DVD into the disk drive. Unlike previous games, there is no way around that because some low-level software installed by Atari checks this. I uninstalled the game immediately when I noticed this.
I am a casual gamer and wanted to play this on my laptop every now and then, on flights or when waiting at the Airport. The DVD requirement makes that impractical because when I travel, I need to think of passport, tickets, schedule, and a million other things and certainly not the games DVD for NWN 2.
The second technical issue I have is with the SecuROM software installed. This software hooks itself deep into the system and causes instability. I am using my laptop mainly for work, so having this installed really is not an option for me. I can't risk my work environment for software that is _always_ on yet serves no use except to make sure other people don't copy NWN 2. I get no benefit from that. I have complained on the Atari forums to no avail.
I the future I will carefully check in advance if SecuROM or similar software is included and avoid such games. Too bad because I was a huge, huge fan of NWN 1, and I still play it every now and then. Expectations were high.
Customer Review: Decent game, but for all of the issues you would think you just bought a beta
Summary: 3 Stars
In seeing the other reviews I'm sure you are aware of the huge machine requirements and the equally large amount of bugs in this game. While I didn't find either to be a game stopping problem, I have to admit that it was aggravating at times. More notably, the patch caused so many other bugs that I had to play the original install errors and all.
The storyline is better than the previous game, and it does look a bit nicer. Not up to par with what it requires to run it, but I would score it with Titan Quest in looks.
Many reviewers complained about the camera in this game and while I admit I was moving and adjusting it constantly, I recall doing the same thing in the first game. The only gripe I had about the camera was that it swivels the opposite direction of what one would expect. An annoyance yes, but nothing to make me thrown down the keyboard in frustration and stomp away crying about it.
In all honesty, I found this game to be more enjoyable than NWN 1. If you recall, the original didn't get good until the Hordes of the Underdark expansion and even that paled in comparison to the incredible fan created modules such as the HEX Coda.
The huge amount of bugs and subpar graphics operating under a staggering system requirement list give this a game a rating of 3 stars. Perhaps Obsidian (as they did for Knights of the Old Republic 2) with release a working patch of bug fixes and optimizations soon. If and when this happens, I fully expect this game to make it just as big as the first.
Customer Review: I really wanted to like this game!
Summary: 2 Stars
Just to let people know, I played almost every AD&D licensed game since the first gold box Pools of Radiance for the C64. I really wanted to like this game, having played NW1, BG1&2, IWD1&2, etc. I would take any of the others over this. This game has all the mechanics, spells, levels, that NW1 had, so why is it bad? The game is slow, the interaction with other chars is hit or miss, and the camera will drive you insane.
Also, on a side note, the game went out of its way to make the women of standard proportions. That is, the women chars look just like the men, only with small busts. While they may believe it somehow strikes a blow for equality, it really just made it boring. They coupled this with no relationships you can have with NPC's (as in in BG.) The women and men look identical, and the part where you setup your char is also boring. If your pet peeve is females in chain-mail bras, you have found your game, otherwise it is really dull. I never knew how much this took away from a game, but there it is. It feels like the developers wanted to remove all risque elements out of the game and went overboard.
Customer Review: Wait for Dragon's Age
Summary: 1 Stars
The hefty system requirements are not indicative of this game. It requires a lot, but delivers very little. Running it on a 7600gt I thought the graphics would fly, but it seems that for some strange reason, the game play is slow, and the graphics are not that great. Someone else mentioned Oblivion--Bethesda obviously has a better handle on graphics optimization for their games. As a successor to NWN, it fails miserably. There's too many cut scenes, hokey lines, and henchmen potentials that you just want to kill because they're so annoying. The story line seems to have been taken from a bad fantasy novel, and unlike the original NWN where you have characters that you meet that you can actually grow to like, it seems this game is so flat in character development that you don't care for any of them (it's just a game, right? But it's an RPG, so why the lifeless bitmaps filling the screen?).
As for the game play, once in a while the 3d renderer seems to break down and I get to see all the cones, shaders and frames of the 3d objects in their not-so-great glory. I know that this is a problem in the game because it doesn't happen in Oblivion, which has the same graphics requirements.
Sorry for the long-post, but I was really looking forward to this as I am (or was) a big, big fan of NWN. Bioware made a mistake on letting go of their control of this game.
My only recommendation is to wait for Dragon's Age (which, I hope won't take eternity to be released).