Neverwinter Nights and Expansions Review at EDBIS
Posted Friday, December 19, 2003 - 2:02 CET by chevalier

EDBIS have posted a review of Neverwinter Nights and both expansions, giving a score of 75% to NWN, 86% to SoU and 89% to HotU, which makes an overall 83%. Here's a snip:

Lets talk about a the story aspects of the game and expansions themselves shall we. The Neverwinter Nights official campaign was, overall, rather lackluster. The story of Aribeth and the assault on Neverwinter was predictable, boring, and best forgotten. After spending five years making
this game I would think that Bioware would try to make an Official Campaign that would best showcase the hard work they did to make this game the technical marvel that it is. For new players I suggest to forget about the NWN OC and go directly to Shadows of Undrentide or download the myriad of
user made mods. More on those in a little bit. Shadows of Undrentide's story is far more interesting. Starting off with a new character the player gets a clean slate. You start off as a student to a Dwarven Wizard, one of four, at a rather isolated village of Hilltop. Before you know it the small school and the village itself is attacked by kobolds, moderately competent
kobolds at that. One of the best joinable NPCs in the game is Deekin Scalesinger, a kobold bard who has much wrongness in him which continues in Hordes of the Underdark. Hordes of the Underdark starts off the character at the Yawning Portal and those with good Realmsian knowledge knows that
this is the famous home where many adventurers enter Undermountain. A huge dungeon complex created and manned by Halaster, a fairly mad wizard who have populated the dungeon complex with quite a number of traps, pitfalls, and monstrousities, along with a few puzzles as well.

Read the rest at EDBIS.