Neverwinter Nights(tm) 2 Official Strategy Guide (Forgotten Realms) (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) [Paperback]

BradyGames (Author)

Book Description

Series: Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames) | Publication Date: October 31, 2006

BradyGames’ Neverwinter Nights 2 Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

• A complete walkthrough of the entire game.
• Detailed area maps.
• In-depth item and equipment lists.
• Expert boss strategies to defeat even the toughest enemy.
• Extensive bestiary.
• Unbeatable tactics for each mode of gameplay.

Platform: PC

Genre: Role-Playing Game

This product is available for sale in North America only.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES; Neverwinter Nights 2 Official Strategy Guide w/ Mask of the Betrayer Preorder Code edition (October 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744007003
• ISBN-13: 978-0744007008
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #721,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not horrible but not great, November 4, 2006

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Not My Real Name - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neverwinter Nights(tm) 2 Official Strategy Guide (Forgotten Realms) (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

I'm not impressed by this. There is some useful information, but much of it is regurgitating details about feats & spells that you can find in the PDF manual that comes with the game.

The biggest disappointment was that while the walk through basically took you through the game with some optional quests it didn't say anything about the Influence system with your party members.

For those of you not familiar with the system introduced in KOTOR you could converse with party members and get to know them better, this would affect how they behaved later in the game. Nothing in the guide gives you direction on which conversations can influence your party members or what options you should pick to gain or lose influence. In fact, the description of the NPCs is nothing more than the stats you'll see when they join the party and a brief 3 line blurb.

Additionally if there are any secrets or easter eggs in the game they were not mentioned in the manual.

Disappointing.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Please Save Your Cash!, December 3, 2006

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Angelina "Angelina" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neverwinter Nights(tm) 2 Official Strategy Guide (Forgotten Realms) (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

This is about one of the most useless manuals I have ever purchased for a game. I say this with the manual for TES Oblivion as a guide for what a game manual *should* be.

There are only the very shortest of blurbs for each quest in the main storyline available. There are NO side-quest walkthroughs or guides, so if you're like me and have completed Act II before realizing there were people you were supposed to have recruited for Crossroad Keep, well you're hosed. Not only Crossroad Keep, but any side-quest you may have missed. I've found out tons of important and necessary info on the NWN2 Forums that simply do not exist (and should) in this official guide.

I'm just astounded at the complete lack of any real, useful information in this manual. They spend the greater part of the book talking about Character Classes (in the free guide in the boxed game), Spells and Equipment, and very little of it going through what matters most. The actual gameplay.

I've rated this two stars because the enemy stats, maps, spells and equipment breakdowns are interesting and sometimes *gasp* helpful.

My overall recommendation is to save your money and check out the official NWN2 Forums for tips and help, or GameBanshee for a useful walkthrough.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A tremendous waste of money - look elsewhere., November 26, 2006

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Robert G. Traylor "Original Gamer" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neverwinter Nights(tm) 2 Official Strategy Guide (Forgotten Realms) (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

Unsurprisingly, the fine folks at Bradygames have a non-functional 'Contact Us' form. If I put this product out, I, too, would want to make certain that I couldn't receive any feedback regarding it. So here, instead, is the text of my complaint to them, so that you might spend your money more wisely than I did:

Greetings!

I am writing to you regarding the absolutely abysmal strategy guide that I purchased for the game Neverwinter Nights 2. The Bradygames logo on it and the words "Official Strategy Guide" conspired to convince me that I should buy this thing - a treacherous act of deceit that I have yet to recover from. The guide for "Bully" was fantastic, and I have tons of others from Final Fantasy X and X-2, GTA:San Andreas, Front Mission 4, etc. I'm no stranger to Bradygames, and I'm usually more than satisfied with my purchases. But in this case ... well, allow me to list my specific greivances:

1) A huge percentage of the book's contents are directly from the instruction booklet. This is unnecessary padding. It can be safely assumed that I have the instruction booklet, or can download it. I don't need to pay you guys for an extra copy.

2) The 'strategies' are inane, and almost always boil down to "Keep your spellcasters back and have your tanks attack". Any tip that might actually make a fight easier (that I couldn't have come up with myself without half a second's thought) is only given when they're absolutely necessary to triumph. Ideas about where to lure enemies, trap locations (I'm especially upset that traps aren't pointed out at all in the maps). The numbers of enemies present are kept intentionally vague, a la, "Oh, yeah, there's a few spiders over there."

3) The enemy information is perfunctory at best. Special attacks? Special defenses?

4) NOT A SINGLE SIDE QUEST IS COVERED!

5) Information that's just missing. Hey, did you know that there's an iron golem in the Ruins of Arvahn? Well, thanks to reading your guide, I certainly didn't!

6) And finally, the fact that item crafting is only covered in the most slipshod way. You'd think that the fact that you can make your own magical items, armor and weapons would be quite a draw, wouldn't you? It's a shame, then, that there isn't a SINGLE magical item crafting recipe covered in the entirety of this book!

Now, I'm a firm believer in adding something positive to any sort of negative criticism, but honest-to-god, the only thing I can come up with is "the pictures were nice". This 'book' was a travesty, seriously, and from now on, I'm going to opt for Prima books whenever possible. This is seriously inexcusable.