Neverwinter Nights 2 Gold | 
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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $14.99
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 812
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows
Genre: Role Playing Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 27625
UPC: 742725276253
EAN: 0742725276253
ASIN: B00118SU98
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New Factory Sealed
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| Features:
| • | Bundle includes: Neverwinter Nights 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer | | • | Singleplayer or online multiplayer | | • | Over 50 hours of gameplay | | • | Create your own adventures and share them with your friends | | • | Play your adventure as the Dungeon Master |
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Product Description
Neverwinter Nights 2 Gold combines Neverwinter Nights 2, the sequel to one of the best-selling and genre-defining role-playing games ever, and Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, which allows you to advance to epic levels (above 20) and choose from over 100 spells.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Unfinished Game, Poor Support January 5, 2009
SandyK (USA)
Being an old time PnP D&D player, I got the gold edition to dive into some good old fashioned D&D gameplay.
Deeply disappointed. I wish I could say something really good about the game, honestly.
1. No die rolls (something so v-e-r-y D&D, that even Icewind Dale had).
2. Character models are pretty bland (and the models appear more like you expect from the modding community, than a commercial venture, not even 2003ish in appearance. My character's mouth will sparkle white not due to teeth, but bad UV mapping of the texture [exposing the non UV base model underneath]).
3. Haven't seen this many reloads since the first console to PC conversion (and each one requires unloading and reloading at least 2 modules, to over 19. Even if you have a super rig that decked out, the reloads are going to annoy you to no end -- every door you enter [and make sure to click twice to even open it], included).
The first irritation to this day with the 1.21 patch -- January 4, 2009 -- will be the camera. This isn't any camera setup you've seen before in any RPG/MMO/FPS game, and 99% of players will want to change it straight at the beginning (you will need MotB installed to "fix" a part of the camera issues, but others still remain with even the newest SoZ expansion). Words can't describe how awful it is, nor how you're faced with 3 camera modes (MotB) and each has their separate options to fumble with. Once you experienced it you'll check any future game to ensure never to encounter it again! Seriously.
NW2, even with patches it's enough to want to pull your teeth out -- I played it for a couple hours and couldn't take it anymore [upto the fort, and that jealous female companion literally from hell, who's worse than a backseat driver her dialogue resembles).
If you're the type of RPG gamer who is picky about your party and it's alignment (playing lawful good/lawful evil characters), the game will force companions on you, which can be a polar (and polarizing) alignment. Their dialogue can also make you sour of having them around (but you need them to complete quests).
MotB, is a game you will want to look up ingame cheat codes to turn off the v-e-r-y annoying type of count down meter. When you need to rest, and it's at like 15, you will die unless you become a type of vampire (and from experience the "drink" doesn't offer enough "blood" to raise the meter enough if it gets low unless you "graze" [which becomes a grinder]). Otherwise, you can convert XP to "blood" to drink, which means it'll take you longer to level (and this is a shorter expansion). Players will also fight with their bare-fist despite having a weapon, since the AI isn't even intelligent enough to switch weapons in your inventory to use. This game has some serious, and I mean, s-e-r-i-o-u-s AI issues, and your fix is a third party mod (yes, player made -- that the devs even used in SoZ but took out some features, which caused more bugs!!).
Do I need to even to continue this black comedy further???
The numerous bugs, still to this day not fixed with all those patches (and all expansions, as the new trend of patching games is to buy the newest expansion to fix older bugs), is the real problem with the game. Some aren't very game breaking, but even the minor ones cause CTD, and reflects the overall polish of the game in general. NW2+MotB strives to be an AAA title, but you get the feeling from everything from the animations to the dialogue, it's a AA title, instead. It's a step above the best mods in gaming, but definitely not Oblivion/Morrowind in production values.
YMMV, but I'm getting quite dishearten of games of late. If they're not released as buggy betas; promising what they can't deliver; the want to continue buying the franchise is cheapen by what the official forum communities attract for help on game issues (soap opera driven juvenile delinquents [including the forum staff]-- gone are the days of just dealing with 15 year-olds that would make a sailor proud).
I won't be buying another game from this publisher/dev duo due to all of this. Maybe in 5+ years, and after both review their Q&A I'll reconsider, but for now NW2 Gold has been a waste of money.
 Review from a beta tester December 13, 2008
Hal Davis (Greenville, NC)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a tester, I've seen alot of stuff go thru my desktop machines (I've got three desktops and three laptops, the desktops are radeon based and the laptops are nvidia machines.) I've tested Nwn2 extensively, and as of the semi-latest patch 1.13.1409, there was only one script bug misfiring in the official campaign that I could see. Since I upgraded to MotB, I have not seen the script bug at all. I test on XP32, XP64, and Linux. I have six campaigns going on right now on three dual-boot xp/linux machines. BTW I've been in the IT industry since 1988.
What I see here recently is alot of crap that seems to be attributed to Nwn2 that is actually the fault of Vista. People tend to point to their hardware, voice the complaint that their hardware is fully in spec, and then totally ignore the fact that their OS is nothing but dog excrement.
I don't have any idea where the last reviewer gets his information about Nwn2 crashing on network exit, with both Vista and XP. It might be happening with Vista, but it definitely is not happening here, either under XP32, XP64, or Linux, with network play. I've tested on all the hardware I have, with the Nwn2 server running under Linux, and I've also extensively tested the DM client on the network with Linux running the Nwn2 server under Cedega. I am not seeing the problems that the Vista users are seeing, under any version of either XP or Linux. Once again I run both video card brands, ATI and Nvidia.
As far as the game itself, the game is what it is. No you can't go into every building, but there are plenty of places that you CAN go into, and there are enough places to explore that you can easily get fired from your fulltime job if you don't watch it.
The game was designed to make you the protagonist in a high quality storyline, and to that end it does it better than just about any other game I've seen, in respect to the originality and quality of the storyline. The content is targeted to the storyline, and that just means you're getting the best of the best content. Regarding the game, there will always be things that *can* be complained about, but more importantly there are a minimum of things that *should* be complained about. Generally if you are a stable happy person who likes theirself then you will find this game a fantastic adventure with few parallels.
Topflite66 November 13, 2008
Fredrick A. Ashe (Grand Forks, ND)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The second installment of the Neverwinter Series is better than the first. Can't wait until the next expansion comes out.
 Great game with some bugs November 5, 2008
W. Stadler (Manhattan, KS USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The story line, role playing elements, and gameplay are all terrific. The only problem that I encountered was with a poor camera system. The settings can be adjusted and through trial and error you'll find a setting that you desire. The bugs have all been fixed (for the most part) through updates and patches, so no worries there either.
What I found the most enjoyable was the expansion. MotB solved almost all the problems (camera) that the original had in it, and the story is significantly better.
Some minor problems I personally had with the game included a varied level of voice acting. Some was terrific, some was apalling. It just seemed to be random. Lastly whenever a character would cast a spell, the same voice response would be triggered and it became immensely annoying after 40 hours of gameplay.
Overall this is a terrific game with some minor flaws that are almost entirely corrected in the included expansion.
The only computer game I really enjoyed! October 18, 2008
Janice A (michigan)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this game. I probably stayed up a little more late than I should have when I played this game, but I enjoyed every minute of it.
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