The NWN games are totaly different than BG, if you go into them wanting another BG then you will end up being sorely disappointed. If you have a good gaming system you may want to check out NWN 2, they fixed a lot of the bugs and now its just a mediocre game instead of a bad one. I honestly can not think of anything positive to say about Neverwinter Nights, at least not anything encouraging you to play it. NWN 2 had graphics that look decent, but the game performs relatively poorly. NWN 2 also alllowed much larger parties and slightly better control over those parties, but it still feels clumsy compared to the Baldurs Gate games.

NWN 2 had better implementation of the rules, more character classes and prestige classes, more spells and skills and powers and goodies to play with. The ONLY real improvement was a mixed blessing: They went to D&D 3rd Edition rules, which many people dont like anyway. You never really get the same Epic feel throughout the story. The dialog and quest quality is much worse than the other games. Also, when you move between chapters you can't go back to previous areas. Fewer things and people to interact with, fewer side quests and optional areas. The world is very plain and sparse on detail compared to BG2. You actually have to move your PC's there and they walk hideously slow. You cant pan around the map independantly from the party to check out the landscape.

More often than not your view is partially obstructed even with the so-called 'intelligent' building see-through feature. The nifty little 3D rotation and zoom never has a great angle or lets you go way out to see things. Difficult to access character abilities and spells and even more difficult to interact with objects and people. You can only have 1 main party member and 1 hireling, and the hireling has extremly limited control. Its inferior in just about every manner you can think of. When they made the move to 3D they lost a lot of gameplay and even with NWN 2 they never got it all back. It is a horrible game for those of us who remember the quality 2D RPG's from earlier days. 'If you loved Baldurs Gate then you'll HATE Neverwinter Nights!' It was supposed to be a sequel to Baldurs Gate 2, they even had plans to import characters but dropped that idea before release.

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