NWN2 expansion revealed News
PC News by Robert Purchese
Atari has revealed a new expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights 2 that will be available this autumn.
Mask of the Betrayer will follow on from the climatic battle against the King of Shadows in the original campaign, and see you wake up deep below the earth's surface surrounded by swarms of evil spirits. It's here in harsh Rashemen that you'll seek out your true destiny.
Perhaps the most exciting new feature are epic levels, which will take you above and beyond level 20, giving you access to powerful new feats and spells.
In addition to this there will be new races, companions, base and prestige classes, as well as the usual slog of new weapons, monsters, armour, crafting options and modding tools.
"Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer's engrossing campaign will conclude the storyline that began in the original Neverwinter Nights 2, and focus on combat, exploration and classic D&D dungeon-crawling," said Feargus Urquhart, CEO of developer Obsidian Entertainment.
"We're also making new advances in story and character development as well as improving upon the acclaimed companion Influence System used in both Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords and Neverwinter Nights 2."
Uncover our Mask of the Betrayer gallery for a look at the latest screenshots.
Neverwinter Nights 2 was released late last year to critical acclaim. Quest your way over to our review to find out more.
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All the best dwarfs are a) drunk and b) Scottish. Glasgow at 1am is indeed like that but venture out at 3am and those same dwarf turn into horrible gurggling kobolds.
As for this expansion. Won't touch it. NW2 was one of the most horribly buggy, ugly, down right lazy games made last year. I loathed its mere presence on my shelf. NW2 Taught me to never trust any game made by those 'people' regardless of the source material. Total utter shite. I can imagine that the only thing this expansion pack will expand is its already vast sea of liquid shiteness and the wallets of the monkies who made it. huff puff! |
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immateriaux
12/04/07 @ 16:57
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Yeah, I bought it on launch day too and only got to about the second town or so and gave up. Terrible game I thought, useless party AI, no fog of war - seemed like a backwards step altogether, overly simplistic and essentially crude. Probably would win prize "Most Disappointing game of 2006" for me.
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Will this expansion sort out the shite coding? if so i will get it. I have NWN2 and played it for about 30 mins...I have a Dual Core XP4400+ 2Gb RAM, 7800GTX etc and it runs like shit no matter what you do...no its not drivers etc i am compitent in that side of thongs too. Sloppy coding probably ruining a perfectly decent game for all.
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Like UncleLou said, the original NWN had a terrible single player game and was all about the toolset.
Obsidian have made two games now that are flawed but have amazing writing. If they can get a publisher that will allow them to finish the game then it would be amazing. There's too many mediocre games out that that don't try to do something different. I'd rather have companys like obsidians, biowares and lionhead that try and fail then have companys like EA. |
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Will this expansion sort out the shite coding? if so i will get it. I have NWN2 and played it for about 30 mins...I have a Dual Core XP4400+ 2Gb RAM, 7800GTX etc and it runs like shit no matter what you do...no its not drivers etc i am compitent in that side of thongs too. Sloppy coding probably ruining a perfectly decent game for all.
Sounds a bit weird. I have a slower PC, and it ran pretty fine out of the box if I tuned down 2 or 3 of the most demanding options. Since then, the patches have significantly improved the performance. |
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hrodelbert
15/04/07 @ 19:21
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"You can't be serious. The single-player campaign in NWN was absolutely appaling,"
Agree totally, although i'm not sure it was ever suppossed to be it's forte "while NWN2 almost reached the heights of Baldur's Gate 2" Rip out your tongue blasphemer! In all seriousness though when i first played Kotor i thought if they could take this level of character design and mix it with the great story and freedom of BG2 it would produce something magical, i was genuinely hoping to get that with NWN2 and to be perfectly honest it was once of my greatest computer game dissapointments. Yes it was solid enough and to be fair to it enjoyable, but i really felt they missed a trick it felt hopelessly unfinished and rushed to me. Fortunately some of the user generated content may be it's saving grace, although i'd have loved it if they had got it right in the first place.
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