Hordes is a worthy expansion with a grand single-player campaign.

User Rating: 8.5 | Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark PC
By KingLim | Review Date:
Given my previous grumble with the first expansion, Hordes made me a happy fan of the Neverwinter Nights series again. One of the best features is definitely the Epic upgrade and the whopping level 40 cap. Especially for mages, there are tons of new spells with wicked abilities and satisfying damage score, like the Bigby's Crushing Hand and Isaac's Greater Missile Storm. Some of the new classes played out very well against the high level enemies, and I got a kick out of the Red Dragon Disciple together along with the Epic spells.

With a larger scale of assets, the campaign is significantly more lengthy too. This time round, there are lots of grand battles to let your massive spells feast on, though the experience points aren't much. The strange thing is, as you reach around level 25 onwards, the amount of experience you get per kill drastically drops, to the point where an "impossible" rated monster nets you only 200 xp out of the 20,000 xp climb per character level. That means... you don't actually get to level 40 in your first playthrough, which sucks.

Irregardless, Hordes of the Underdark is still a great game to enjoy in its glorious portrayal of epic-ness and tightly knitted challenges.

KingLim

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