Shadows of Undrentide Review at DEN
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 18:59 CET by chevalier

Digital Entertainment News have posted a review of the Shadows of the Undrentide expansion with a final score of 6.2. Here's an excerpt:

That’s harder to say about Shadows of Undrentide. While the new solo campaign is enjoyable, it rates as a “20-hour” adventure, about one-third the length of the original Neverwinter Nights solo campaign, which rated as a “60-hour” adventure. That’s short and there’s good reason to believe many rush-rush NN-vets are able to beat Shadows in 14 hours or less. While Neverwinter Nights offers an online mode to extend play, many games still expect “their money’s worth” out of a $30 expansion pack and compared to other franchises, Shadows of Undrentide is stingy in length.

The story to the Shadows of Undrentide campaign is strong, except that it still casts you in the role of an initiate to adventuring, a pupil just starting out. If you play Shadows with a newly-rolled character, that’s not much of a problem, but assuming you played through the Neverwinter Nights campaign before the Shadows campaign, you may have a character as high as Level 20, so the “just starting out” storyline can feel out of place if you decide to continue on with your existing character.

Read the whole review at DEN.