Neverwinter Nights First Impressions

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(Originally posted by Sorcerer)

Three first looks at NWN have appeared on the net lately, so here's a snip from each:

Neverwinter Nights offers two starting options, both in the city of Neverwinter. You can play through a prelude that sees you as a recruit in the city's Academy and serves as an in-game tutorial. Depending how quickly or thoroughly you play, this segment can be completed quite quickly, or it can occupy a few hours. The rewards for going through it include gaining a couple of levels, acquiring some gold, improving on your starting equipment and learning more information about the city, the situation that calls for the emergence of a hero, and some of the main NPC characters. The alternative is to jump right into Chapter 1 - there are five in total. It is probably best to play the prelude the first time so you can decide for yourself whether it's worthwhile if you create additional characters.

More at RPGVault.

And the second one:

The interface really lends itself to playing efficiently. Although you can opt to use hot keys, the entire game can be controlled with a mouse. The interface is basic and elegant at the same time, as you can get to a variety of different advanced functions in a matter of two or three clicks. Everything is well organized in a circular fashion around the person or object being affected, so all you have to do is right click and the appropriate options will be displayed for you to choose from. If you're not into digging three layers deep for some of your most-used commands, you can drag them up to the Quickbar menu, which can hold three rows of eight commands, or 24 in total. This is particularly useful for spell casters since you won't have to go digging through menus every time you want to cast a spell.

Read the rest at IGN.

And the third:

On the technical end of the spectrum, NWN has not crashed on me yet. Its 3D world is vibrant and beautiful, running smoothly enough on my anemic 800mhz Athlon and GeForce 2 MX at 1024X768 without giving up much graphically. In fact, it runs significantly faster, though it doesn’t always look better, than Dungeon Siege. Camera controls are intuitive, and load times are surprisingly fast.

Evil Avatar has the rest of the text.