Neverwinter Nights 2

by Aspyr

Product Features

• Choose your Alignment, Allies, and Enemies ¿ Design the character you want, role-play the way you want, and carry the battle to the enemy.
• Build Personalized Modules and Campaigns ¿ Move buildings, terrain, script encounters, write dialogues, and create quests!
• Create your Own Adventures ¿ Everything you need to create an epic adventure is included in the toolset for you and any other world builder you use!
• Rise from a peasant to a full-fledged hero as you defend the Realms against one of the greatest threats of the age!
• Compatible with Intel Only Machines

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000UGNLGY
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 28, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,533 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #13 in Video Games > Mac Games > Role-Playing

Product Description

Platform: Mac | Edition: Standard

Build a character that suits your style of play - good or evil, chaotic or lawful, with any number of skills, feats and professions available at the click of a button. Whether lobbing fireballs and researching forgotten spells as a powerful Wizard, hacking a trail through legions of orcs as a Fighter armed only with a battle axe and your courage, or taking on the role of a Rogue that can slip into the shadows at a moment's notice, the choice is yours. Choose your alignment, your allies, your companions, and how you want your character to develop... design the character you want, role-play the way you want, and carry the battle to the enemy.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy successor, April 20, 2008

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Desert Dweller (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Game)

Neverwinter Nights 2 met my expectations, and in fact exceeded them.

First, the technical:

I was a bit worried about the Mac version, given the reported technical issues when the PC version first came out, but the game performed very well. I kept expecting a problem, I did not experience a single crash or major flaw in the whole game. Not once. It performed better for me than NWN 1's latest version.

My machine is a 2.8G dual core Intel, 2G memory, 24 inch iMac, running Mac OS 10.4.11. The game never even slowed down, even with multiple characters in large battles, with all kinds of spell effects going simultaneously. Very impressive.


The game itself:

The graphics were beautiful. I didn't buy it for that reason, but I have to admit the graphic sure are pretty, and since they didn't slow down my machine, they certainly added to the atmosphere.

The camera controls took some getting used to, and in fact I had to set the sliders for scroll-speed, ect, to slow. However, once I got used to them, I no longer had to really think about it.

I found the story quite engaging. I have played NWN 1 with both of it's sequels (SoU and HotU), and I found this on par with those in terms of story-telling experience. There's plenty of interaction with your party NPCs, and new 'influence' system.

From a D&D standpoint they've made a few small changes, added a few classes, and fixed a few balance issues with Rangers (which many people had thought were underpowered previously).

Overall, I give it 5 stars.

27 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Macbook users beware, April 30, 2009

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T. Kuwabara - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Game)

I purchased this product after enjoying my experience with other Bioware games and hoping for a similar result. Tragically this seems to run in a pattern of Obsidian products, with glitches and crashing flaws. I own KOTR2 for my Xbox and was not pleased with the level of testing and correction done by Obsidian in that project. NWN2 seems like a fantastic story line, but if you have a macbook (I own a new generation, 2009 intel Macbook) it will freeze up or crash on you during the loading sequences. After some digging on the internet I found that the graphics cards in Macbooks are not supported for the game and this causes the crash. It would have been nice for those of us who are not savvy in technical computer specs to make this clear before purchasing. I thought it best to warn other Macbook owners before they waste their time and money on this product

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Game; a few bugs, April 3, 2008

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J. D. Hill - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Game)

I'm running NWN2 on a new 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo iMac with a 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO video card and 4GB of system memory. My machine should be more than adequate to run this game.

The graphics are gorgeous, and the use of D&D 3.5 rules is spot on. The game runs pretty well. I'm about halfway through with no crashes. My only nitpicks are that the video, every once and awhile, flakes out and the fills/textures flash neon intermittently. Also, on certain occasions (like a confrontation in Gith base) the character/bad guy interactions begin before they should be triggered (which forces you to skip to the next part and miss picking up loot). My biggest issue is that the camera/view angle, whether in top-down mode or over-the-character's-shoulder mode, isn't very smooth and if you get too near a structure, you can't see your character until you move away from that structure. In this regard, the game is much less player-friendly than the original NWN.

The story isn't as tight as it could be... there are some missing logic gaps in the plot line. But even with all those issues, this is still the best RPG on the market for Macs right now and well worth the money.

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