NWN2 - Reviews @ Gameworld Network, GameDaily
88% is the verdict for NWN2 in Gameworld Network's review:
One of the main features that has been added to NWN2 is that your companions are now fully controllable. You can easily switch over and control one of your other characters at any time (with a max party size of four, although you can "store" extra characters at a tavern you come across fairly early on in the game). In addition, you have full control of what skills and stats to increase when your companions gain levels, and each has their own inventory, so you can use them to store some of the loot you find. Fans of the first Neverwinter Nights will remember that none of these features was available.
...meanwhile GameDaily has scored NWN2 a perfect 10/10. Here's a snip:
In a game that is the perfect evolutionary step between Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate, there's little to complain about. Sure, the load times can get a little long (especially when saving), and there are some visual errors in the cut scenes, but when the game really sucks you in, none of that matters. The control scheme is definitely different, but not so much so that it gets in the way of playing. And it's not as streamlined and casual as the original Neverwinter Nights, but is that really a bad thing? Sure, the menus aren't quite as nice, and the text boxes might have even gone back a step. However, Neverwinter Nights 2 is becoming one of the new classics of the role-playing genre... a couple of problems that will probably be fixed in a patch before the month is out aren't grounds to punish the makers.
Information about
NWN2SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released