![]() The most frequent battles don't usually require that level of management, though, because you'll almost always come out on top by just rushing into a mob of enemies and letting the artificial intelligence do the work. Then it's just a matter of hitting the space bar to unpause the game and watching your characters go to work. The combat takes place in real time, but you have the option to pause the game and assign up to five successive actions to each of your characters. By creating a well-rounded party of casters, fighters, rogues, and rangers, you'll have access to a huge array of skills and abilities.įor the most part you'll use those skills and abilities to combat all kinds of monsters, people, spirits, and animals that always seem to get in your way. With a quick click you can take direct control over any of your party members at any time (as long as they're conscious), which adds some welcome variety to the single-player experience because you aren't pigeonholed into playing a single class for the entire game. You can have up to three supporting characters in your party, in addition to the occasional non-player or special character who will tag along with you. The interactive dialogue is well written and so engaging that you'll probably want to save your game often, so you can reload and repeat conversations just to see what will happen if you choose your words differently.Įven though you create a character who serves as the central hero for the tale, there's a great and varied cast of supporting characters who will join you along the way. It isn't much of an issue at first, but repeatedly going against an ally's wishes can eventually turn him or her against you. Either way, your influence over that person will be affected. If you are forced to make a decision and one of your party members tries to convince you to take a certain course of action, you can comply or simply tell her to keep quiet. But sometimes the effects are more subtle. If you tell a goblin chieftain that you're sick of hearing him talk and would rather paint the walls with his blood, you can expect that you'll have an immediate fight on your hands. Your responses have both immediate and delayed effects. ![]() The choices aren't black-and-white, though, and you'll often come across some difficult moral dilemmas that make your part in the conversation much more interesting. When speaking to someone, you might be given the choice to lie, intimidate, or simply ask questions to get the information or response you're looking for. As you talk to all of the characters in the world, you're given several choices in how to respond, and your responses often have a very apparent effect on the progression of the story. It all adds up to make this feel like a real world with real history and very real inhabitants, but beyond even that, the game does a great job of making you feel like an integral part of that world, rather than some insular hero who comes out of nowhere to save the day and then disappears.Ī large part of what makes the story so interesting is that you play an active role in the way it unfolds. In addition to the main story, the world is full of side stories that you can explore or ignore as you see fit. You'll get a heavy dose of political treachery shattered, shifting, and solidified alliances ethereal mysticism dark secrets and much, much more. ![]() ![]() As cliché as it sounds, the story reaches far beyond the usual good-versus-evil plot. It's a long journey that involves the awakening of an arcane and unstable evil power that only a chosen savior (guess who?) can banish. After you create your character, you are taken on a journey that will see you rise from your beginnings as a humble peasant to become one of the most respected and elite heroes of Neverwinter. You can choose a race, subrace, appearance, class, moral alignment, and even a voice for your hero. ![]() You begin the game by creating a character. Now Playing: Neverwinter Nights 2 Video ReviewĪs great as the story is in Neverwinter Nights 2, it's difficult to convey without spoiling the plot but suffice it to say that it will keep your interest throughout the entire campaign-which, at around 50 hours long, is no small feat. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's ![]()
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