Acceptable.
User Rating: 8.5 | Neverwinter Nights 2 (CD-ROM) PC
I'm not much of a DnD fan and all that so I'm not going to review this game based on then the relativity of that game. First of all, I do agree with some of the negative reviews in the aspect of cheesy dialog. The voice actors could use some work but that's not all that important. The visual effects are really good but the meshes and textures cause to much lag even with higher performance computers. They really could have made the visual effects the same (even better) and used much less processing. I was a bit annoyed with the whole traveling system for the fact there wasn't much of a traveling system at all. To make it simple, you have a overhead map of the land and you click what region you want to go to then it teleports you there. Not much of a game for exploring the path from point A to point B. The stories seem somewhat linear but open ended none-the-less. Meaning the story line is the same no matter how many times you play it through but there are many different options you can take to get through the story. For example, you can choose to have a companion join you when you meet them or not. And your good/evil karma will determine different outcome of dialog choice and what not. So basically the game is very in depth. There is tons and tons to do and see and the gameplay is just fun. You can customize EVERY aspect of your character and, for the most part, your companions as well. I really can't stress how much fun the gameplay really is. It really is one of those games you can only play once or twice through but there are many mods and expansions that can keep you entertained for hours on end. Looking back on the bad though, the AI isn't very... well Intelligent. countless times I'd have to cycle through my companions and get threm through the dungeon because, for some reason, they just wouldn't follow me even after having the follow command set. And countless times they'd run half across a dungeon to kill a monster and attract 10-12 other monsters thus killion my party. You can turn 'ragdoll' mode on which makes it so they don't do that. But then they don't attack at all until you activate them and tell them to attack. There's not really a defensive mode, or at least I haven't found one, which offers a median for that problem.
So all in all, the game isn't very well built, but it's still very engrossing and lots of fun to play. It's hard to judge this game negatively even though there are lots of flaws. The adventure is worth the low cost of the game that it's going for now. I found a copy of Gold for like $14 on ebay. Not bad at all. So if you're a big RPG fan, definitely give it a go. 
