Neverwinter Nights is worth of the title " The Best RPG ever!"
Neverwinter Nights is a huge game. You'll spend about 100 hours playing it. The main campaign is very good. You can do everything freely and solve quests the way you want. That's what is most important, you can do everything you want to do. The story is very good too. The City of Neverwinter was infected by a plague , and many people died. You start as an student in the Academy of Neverwinter, but in the same day that you'll finish your training the Academy is attacked , and the cure for the plague is stolen by someone. As the survivor of the slaughter you'll have to look for the cure which is divided in four parts known as the Waterdhavian Creatures. This is just the prelude there are far more to see in this history.
Building your character is one the funiest things in this game. You can choose your character race, portrait, packages of abilities and his/her class. Then you'll have to choose his/her type of hair, color of hair,color of skin, tatoo, initial clothes and other things. The races of the game are the same of D&D : you can play as an Elf , Human, Half-Elf , Half-Orc , Halfling and Dwarf. But you can create your own race in the sub-race comand which allows you to create another race based in one the races of the game.
All of your abilities and atributes can be customized by you. That's the most fun , because if you are a hardcore player you can create the perfect character for your choosen class and this is very interesting. The game offers a huge list of class for your character , there are barbarians, fighters,rangers,druids,wizards,sorcerers and many others. You can multiclass the way you want with all these class. But your character can only use three class, either classes or prestige class they count as the same.
The tecnical of this game are great too. Many people don't play the game just because it is inovative and it is very fun , but because of its graphics or sounds. The graphics of this game, they were very well done. You can see lights reflecting in a warrior armor or sword. All the lights are very good, you can see the scenario itself is made by light, lights totally influency this game graphics. One interesting thing is the shadows. There are shadows everywhere and they are perfect, with you have a good video card you're going to see it. The water, the grass, snow effects everything is so great that you won't believe in what you're seing. The game have many colors too and good textures of course. It is amazing what graphics do. But I think that some people won't like it at the first time because if you're about to compare Fable: Lost Chapters or Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion graphics with Neverwinter Nights' , you're not going to like it , but as time passes you're going to see that this graphics are quite impressive. But, in my opinion the weapons aren't very well designed. I mean , their picture looks very good but the weapon itself doesn't have the same look as the picture have.
The sounds are good , they don't show something innovative. The musics are boring sometimes, but there are good ones in the most interesting places of the game. I think that's why those places are the most interesting. In fact , the game doesn't have a theme, so that make it sucks a little. But actually , the sound effects are very very good. It is wonderfull the characters screams , and animals roaring and other stuff such as steps of the characters, the sound of sword clashing , the heros screaming in battle and many other impressive sounds which makes it fun. The voices are good too , but I think that there must have been much more voices 'cause there isn't many characters with voices. That's a negative point 'cause in Dungeon Siege II evey character speaks and even in Dungeon Siege almost everyone do it too. The gameplay is just the same gameplay of every PC RPG. In fact, the gameplay here is very similar to Diablo's gameplay. I think the only difference between then is the rotation of the game camera and the zoom. Battling is very easy , you just click at your enemy and then you watch your char fightinning with him, I think that's the most boring part 'cause you just watch your hero fightinning and you don't have to do anything else , unless you're an wizard and want to cast a spell. The game have lots of hotkeys which you can personalize and use it the way you want to use. If you're a magician , you'll probably have all sorts of magic , so you can use these hotkeys which you created to cast spells faster. And this hotkeys is also used for you to equip an weapon or armor faster , activate an ability , use an item and many other things.
The online gameplay is another feature that Neverwinter Nights should be very proud of. It is just too much fun playing online with all of your friends exchanging items and abilities and knowledge about the places ,or even playing the main campaign online. You'll find out this game online gameplay has much to offer than an MMORPG itself, because you can use your character offline in the online mode, so even if you don't have an DSL you can keep playing without being connected to the internet and them after your upgrades you enter and play with all the kind of players in the world. That's very fun.
::: VEREDICT :::
Neverwinter Nights is very enjoyable game. If you are a fan of RPGs, you should play it. If you play AD&D you'll be very proud of seen AD&D in an eletronic game. And even if you're not a fan of RPGs , I know you'll like playing it 'cause it is very very fun. Highly recommended !