Not worth your time or money
I'm writing this review to hopefully convice some of you to avoid making the same mistake I made, which is spending your hard earned cash on this pile of drivel.
My first complaint arose when I opened the box: 6 CDs! I don't know if there was a DVD version of this thing, but I certainly didn't see one when I was shopping for it. After the lengthy install process, I immediately patched the game because I was aware a patch had been released for it already, no big deal, I thought.
Then I loaded up the game, and was presented with a low quality intro movie, complete with very poor voice acting. My hopes started to dwindle at this point. Once through the movie, I got to pick one of five characters to play. I don't mind being forced to pick a toon, since it worked well with the Diablo games. I chose the Amazon, Cheya. I was expecting, due to the game box, to be able to change everything about her appearance: and I couldn't. According to the box, there are "thousands" of options available to you when creating a character. Wrong. There *might* be thousands of combinations, since you get to change six items, maybe six times for each character, which would give you thousands of possible combinations. But the changes are very minimal, such as eye color or hair style. meh.
Then I load up the game. I'm met with a stuttery, jerky camera showing my character arriving at the edge of some forest. I meet a troll who's been hurt (bad voice acting strikes again!) and needs my help. I move along to fight the first enemy, and hit him twice. After the second hit, the orc dies. But he doesn't behave as expected. One second he's standing, the next he's facedown on the ground. Well, almost instantly. He did some super-duper-high-speed flip, THEN landed face down. The animations in this game are horrible, only going downhill from this point on.
The camera is clunky and hard to control, the leveling process makes no sense (how do I gain intelligence from smashing a barrel? Is it because I was smart enough to smash it, instead of say, trying to eat it?). I also noticed that my melee based character was not very capable of handling damage very well. I died many times against easy enemies, even while trying a variety of different strategies, including softening them up with magic/missles, etc. And I just can't get past the crappy animation in any case.
This game lacks any form of polish, it's buggy as hell, and it's not even fun to play. I would never recommend it to anyone, nor would wish it upon my worst enemy, it's that awful. Do yourself a favor: wait for NWN2 or Dark Messiah.