While Neverwinter Nights is intended mostly for fans of Dungeons & Dragons, many people will enjoy it's unique multiplay

User Rating: 9 | Neverwinter Nights PC
By megafeck | Review Date:
Neverwinter Nights is a Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game by Bioware, creaters of the popular Baldur's Gate Series, where you take on the role of a character who you create. You can have multiplayer characters and the character creation system allows you to customize your characters. When you create a character you can choose such things as race, gender, class, and skills. Neverwinter Nights also includes a bunch of pre-made characters and packages, which are a set of already defined attributes that you can use when creating a character.

Multiplayer in Neverwinter Nights works similar to the Pen and Paper Dungeons & Dragons games that many people play. You can join a game in two modes, either as a player (through the game itself) or as a dungeon master (through a seperate program).

Players attempt to complete the objectives of a dungeon (area) if the game is objective based, or go around doing various quests. Dungeon Masters control the game, and can create new monsters, traps and triggers. Dungeon Masters can also take control of any computer controlled character and adjust the difficulty of the game on the fly.

Multiplayer is diverse thanks to the Aurora Toolset that is included with the game. The Aurora toolset allows people to create their own dungeons, complete with scripting (Done in a C++ Like Language). This allows for very complex dungeons and it's even possible to create different types of games using the scripting.

While Neverwinter Nights primarily focuses on multiplayer, it also includes a single player campaign consisting of 4 chapters and a tutorial chapter. While single player does offer some fun, it isn't very long. Therefore if you don't intend to play multiplayer, I would recommend Baldur's Gate I or II instead since they focus more on single player.

Graphics are done in 3D and take advantage of the latest 3D hardware. If you have a NVidia GEForce 3 or 4, you will be able to take advantage of the "shiny water" feature which makes the water reflective. For some reason however, this feature does not work with the ATI Radeon 8500 cards even though they support it.

Sounds are somewhat repetitive as well as the music. When a spell is cast, a lot of the words are the same as other spells. Music is generally the same for each area type with minor variations.

Neverwinter Nights has done a good job of taking the turn-based Dungeons & Dragons and making it real-time. A day consists of a certain amount of seconds (settable by the person running the server) as well as turns.

Overall, Neverwinter Nights is a great game and I would recommend it to people who like to play Role-Playing games and fans of Dungeons & Dragons.

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