NWN2 - Review @ CVG
British site CVG has posted their review of NWN2. Despite complaining of a lack of originality, the score is 8.6/10:
BioWare must be crapping themselves. There's a particular sub-race of stalker, separate from the mythical Ukrainian type, who follows his or her victim, copying everything they do. Obsidian, one-time Black Isle Studios, have followed in BioWare's footsteps, making Icewind Dale to BioWare's Baldur's Gate, making the sequel to BioWare's Knights Of The Old Republic, and now making Neverwinter Nights 2.
It's all a bit creepy. If I were BioWare, I'd have a restraining order out and a large rottweiler in the yard. Attitudes to the original, long-delayed king of RPGs varied; it was welcomed for its toolset and its accurate 3D recreation of the Dungeons & Dragons world, but the single-campaign was somewhat turgid, if unpredictably twisty and satisfyingly long. Obsidian have recreated Neverwinter Nights almost exactly for the sequel, adding in everything that was in any of the expansion packs, but not really expanding on the previous game in any way.
Information about
NWN2SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released