Shadows of Undrentide And Original Neverwinter Nights Reviews At Gamebanshee
Posted Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 15:42 CET by Astin X

Gamebanshee has posted reviews of both Shadows of Undrentide, the first Neverwinter Nights expansion, and the original Neverwinter Nights. They have received scores of 8.6 and 8.3, respectively. Here is an excerpt from the Shadows of Undrentide review:

The game begins easily enough, and you learn you are one of four students for a Dwarven mage named Drogan. You’re given a brief idea of what sort of people your future henchmen (in this case, it would be fellow students) are like. The conversation, though, is cut short as the sounds of battle are heard below. Being faithful students, you all flock to help protect Drogan. This is where the premise of the story is laid out, as you find Drogan fighting against a large number of Kobolds. Drogan inevitably falls to the numbers, but not before they are fought off by you, your fellow students, and a Harper named Ayala. Ayala explains that artifacts placed in Drogan’s keeping had been stolen during the attack, and being Drogan’s eldest student, you are to recover them. Early in, the story establishes a plot similar to the original campaign, in the sense that you’re recovering items for the greater good (much like the collection of items for the Neverwinter plague).

Read the Shadows of Undrentide review here, and the original Neverwinter Nights review here.