The second best RPG of 2006, a few minor flaws will not ruin this game.
+Great story, the main thing that keeps you up until 5 AM, even if you have school or work at 8 AM.
+Voice acting and music are excellent.
+Combat is easy to plan, thanks to frequent pausing, spell effects are really awesome, in the endgame, when you have meteor showers and such, it'll be really flashy.
+Dungeons & Dragons rules of course.
+Well written dialogue, many choices. It's hard to purely good or purely evil.
+Excellent toolset to create your own content. An allpowerful longsword to complete the game really easily on the second time comes to mind...
-One of the first things that frustrates you in this game, the camera, it will take time for you to find a good setting for yourself, you may not find it at all, I made do with driving camera and zoom all the way out. You constantly need to adjust the camera, to be able to see what you want.
-Graphics, even with good hardware it doesn't look as good as it should.
-AI problems, you'll start noticing how Khelgar Ironfist just sits and does nothing while you take a beating, especially frustrating with casters.
-Lots of loading.
Character creation is very well made and allows you to customize almost everything about your character. Race, subrace, hair, facial hair, voice, skills, attributes, deity.
The beginning of the game may frighten you, it sure did frighten me, you begin in your stepfathers house and when you go out you'll see an extremely sunny day and an extremely happy and colorful fair taking place, winning the High Harvest Fair contest is a tutourial, that you can skip alltogether. The village is attacked in the night and you will have to save the world, you'll also find out that you're special later.
The leveling is slow, as you can expect from Neverwinter, you get experience from kills and quests, after about 50 hours of gameplay you will reach level 20.
The NPCs in your party are pretty deep and it's nice to find out about their past, the influence system reminds me of KOTOR2.
You will find tons of loot during the game and whats so good about it is, that you can use the money you get to build your own fortress.....millions of gold just sitting there in your inventory, not in this game.
The toolset is similar to that of NWN1, easy to use, everyone can create their own adventures.
Get over the camera problem and You'll love this game.
And I'll be sure to edit this thing for the better later...comments would be nice.