First Exp. to NWN which delves into some classic storytelling.
Almost exactly 1 year after the initial release of Neverwinter Nights, Bioware came out with an expansion, which is subtitled Shadows of Undrentide.
This expansion adds three new tilesets including: Rural Winter Tileset, Ruins Tileset, and a Desert Tileset. It also adds 5 prestige classes which includes: Arcane Archer, Assassin, Blackguard, Shadowdancer, and the Harper Scout. Bioware also included 16 new creatures, over 50 new spells, and over 30 new feats that each character could choose on their new 20-25 hour campaign that stretches from the Silver Marches to the Floating City of Netheril.
After hearing what the community wanted for new material, Bioware certainly delivered with all new content so the community could make their own modules using the new content to enhance their already great modules. There are easily thousands of modules out there that can be downloaded from sites like www.nwvault.ign.com. The site also gives up to the moment news about the modules and how they rate to the reviewers.
The new campaign by Bioware includes, Chapter 1, an Interlude, and then Chapter 2. Where you'll go from a level 1 character to level 12. As the same with the original NWN, you only get one henchman to accompany you, but you get total control of their inventory and also how they progress in levels/class which is a nice feature.
The graphics have not changed much from the original campaign, but the new content added provides a breath of fresh air. The Aurora Engine is showing it's age though over the past year.
The sound also has gained a couple songs worth and has been done really well again like NWN.
The storyline, although not as good as some of Bioware's older games (Baldur's Gate series), still has a good plot that is far better than the original campaign in NWN. More choices are added for whatever alignment you want to be, whether it's a lawful evil blackguard or just a chaotic good ranger, everyone gets their fill.
With the newest expansion out since the 2nd of December, fans can look forward to progressing their story with their character since both expansions coincide with each other.
The content alone makes this first expansion a good buy, but with the knowledge of more to come from Bioware, it makes it the best thing since individually wrapped cheese.
Required install of NWN to operate
This expansion adds three new tilesets including: Rural Winter Tileset, Ruins Tileset, and a Desert Tileset. It also adds 5 prestige classes which includes: Arcane Archer, Assassin, Blackguard, Shadowdancer, and the Harper Scout. Bioware also included 16 new creatures, over 50 new spells, and over 30 new feats that each character could choose on their new 20-25 hour campaign that stretches from the Silver Marches to the Floating City of Netheril.
After hearing what the community wanted for new material, Bioware certainly delivered with all new content so the community could make their own modules using the new content to enhance their already great modules. There are easily thousands of modules out there that can be downloaded from sites like www.nwvault.ign.com. The site also gives up to the moment news about the modules and how they rate to the reviewers.
The new campaign by Bioware includes, Chapter 1, an Interlude, and then Chapter 2. Where you'll go from a level 1 character to level 12. As the same with the original NWN, you only get one henchman to accompany you, but you get total control of their inventory and also how they progress in levels/class which is a nice feature.
The graphics have not changed much from the original campaign, but the new content added provides a breath of fresh air. The Aurora Engine is showing it's age though over the past year.
The sound also has gained a couple songs worth and has been done really well again like NWN.
The storyline, although not as good as some of Bioware's older games (Baldur's Gate series), still has a good plot that is far better than the original campaign in NWN. More choices are added for whatever alignment you want to be, whether it's a lawful evil blackguard or just a chaotic good ranger, everyone gets their fill.
With the newest expansion out since the 2nd of December, fans can look forward to progressing their story with their character since both expansions coincide with each other.
The content alone makes this first expansion a good buy, but with the knowledge of more to come from Bioware, it makes it the best thing since individually wrapped cheese.
Required install of NWN to operate
