Poor camera angles, overlong loading times and bugs make this game unrecomendable.

User Rating: 5 | Neverwinter Nights 2 (CD-ROM) PC
This game has two many problems as an RPG for it's own good – was it ever tested one wonders.

Lets start with the second most annoying aspect of the game, apart from the Gnome character that is, the camera. It's all over the place, uncontrollable and at times, especially when leaving and entering the building, you can't see anything because the camera has moved. Looking at your party's legs as you leave a building is no fun at all.

Now for the first, loading times – I have a reasonably quick computer with a pretty fast SATA 300 hard drive but the loading times are insufferable especially when you travel to a new area, so the game spends ages loading in that area, walk three paces and enter a cave mouth and then the game loads again – the playing time is probably more than doubled due to loading times.

My next problem is the way the game handles the plot, an example of this would be an NPC being in two places at the same time. You characters complete side quests but your dialog with them is still the same as it was when you first met them.

The equipment is pretty cool as are the locations and the bad guys seem to be pretty good. I can only remember one point where you had a major choice in the plot. The character models are ok but I don't like giving characters equipment, especially helmets and not seeing them represented on the paperdolls.

As this is a game based on the D20 system I have to compare it to other RPGs based on the same system and the two that spring to mind are the Knights of the Old Republic games and they make this seem long drawn out and tiresome.

Overall I can not honestly recommend this game.