Neverwinter Nights 2: Gameplay Monthly Review: B+

Gameplay Monthly has the second of today's reviews for reading pleasure. Scoring what seems to be the standard at this point for NWN 2, the reviewer gave the game a B+. Highlighting the story, the reviewer said:

Amongst the best parts of the game are the fact that your party members continue to play a significant part in the story long after they join you, and for pretty much any of the innumerably side-quests you do, no matter who you bring they are likely to contribute their own take on the situation. The influence system from KotoR makes an appearance here, and seems to be much improved. While it can be annoying to lose influence with a character for making certain decision, the fact is that there is enough interaction with your party to make the influence system an interesting game in itself. The dialogue is very well written for the most part as well, and it ranges very witty, to humorous, to dark. Obsidian did not dumb down the conversation, or censor the evil characters in order to make this game more appealing either. The maturity of this game is a welcome change from the puerility of most of the recent RPGs.

Then, as the norm, technical issues are discussed:

This is really where the game loses out on a perfect score. This game requires a high end system to run well, and even if you meet the recommended requirements you might find that you have to use lower settings than you wanted. The AI can be atrocious at times, and in order make the most of your companions in difficult battles you WILL have to take control of them. Some people also seem to think that the game camera isn't very good, but there is a lot of ways to customize it, and after doing so, I haven't had any problems with it.