Neverwinter Nights 2: Game Over NWN 2 Review: 92%

The latest Neverwinter Nights 2 review comes by way of Game Over. The reviewer scored the game at 92% and had this to say:

Not to sound like a whiny game reviewer, but this was a tough game to review. For starters, I didn't play Neverwinter Nights I, nor Baldur's Gate I or II, nor Knights of the Old Republic I or II, or really any of the other games from Bioware in this vein, at least not any great amount. I own most of them, and many of them are even installed on my hard drive right now, but in the life of a game reviewer you frequently find yourself unable to find time to play games that you're not actually reviewing. That's my cross to bear, and it's going to make it downright impossible for me to form useful comparisons to anything other than Oblivion. The other thing that made this game very difficult to review is that Obsidian keeps patching it, three times I think in the last week alone, one of those a monster patch of over 100MB - thank heavens for broadband.

And in summation:

The graphics are good, but not outstanding, even on the highest detail levels, and the web is rife with complaints about people who are finding the system requirements far too steep for comfortable running. Once again the über machine came through for me without a hitch. The camera, though improved in this last patch, still has problems indoors where you find yourself constantly fiddling with it to try and see things without running into the corners or clipping in the ceiling or staring at the back of some character's head. Outdoors the camera seems to work just fine. Sounds, especially voice work, is far above par, with boatloads of recorded dialog, good scripting, and passable accents.

Keeping in mind that I didn't play NWN1 (or the host of similar games released recently), I was pretty impressed with NWN2. The adventure is rich and detailed, the D&D freak can go positively orgasmic with statistics, and the user community is undoubtedly going to create nearly limitless modules for the less-initiated among us to explore and experience. People who did play NWN1, who might see NWN2 as too similar - I can't speak to that. But taken as its own game, reviewed not as a sequel but alone (which is as I hope I have made abundantly clear the only way I can review it), it brought back some happy pencil and paper nerd memories.