Hordes of the Underdark Review at VideoGamesLife

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

VideoGamesLife have posted a review of Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark giving it an overall score of 85%. Here's an excerpt:

Do the Drow really get a bad rep in RPG's nowadays? A matriarchal society forced to live under the ground of Faerun, having to put up with the appalling gray hue their skin took must have been the final straw to the catalogue of indignities foisted upon them. Is it really the Drow's fault that their alignment is nearly always set around Neutral Evil, does the blame lie solely at the feet of their less tolerant cousin's, the Elves or is it just because they love to sow chaos and havoc on the hated ground dwellers? Whatever your perception of the Dark Elves, expect it to be changed in Bioware's second expansion disk for NeverWinter Nights, Hordes Of The Underdark.

Several months have passed since your escape from the Plane of Shadow(as experienced in the first data-disk, Shadows Of Undrentide), an escapade that has made you the talk of Faerun, thanks in part to one of your companions, the Kobold bard Deekin, his book about your exploits becoming a best-seller. No time to rest upon any laurels however, as the city of Waterdeep is in grave peril. Built above the site of an insane archmage's dungeon known as Undermountain, built specifically to lure in greedy adventurer's desperate to get their hands on the oodles of treasure rumoured to exist within the sorcerer's lair. While not the most desirable tenant to live beneath the houses of the Waterdeepians, Undermountain does have the advantage of being a buffer-zone between the outside world and the Drow homesteads. Until now, that is. The Dark Elves and their dwarven allies, the Druegar, have attacked Waterdeep with no warning and seem to be using Undermoutain as their main base of operations. The Lords of Waterdeep have called all heroes from the realms to gather and help fight this menace and find out how the Drow have managed to capture the seemingly invincible creator of Undermoutain, Halaster.

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