Neverwinter Nights Preview at Games Domain

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(Originally posted by Mollusken)

Another preview of Neverwinter Nights has been posted at Games Domain.

BioWare's been around for a while. While best known for Baldur's Gate and its sequel, the team also created the underrated Shattered Steel and equally under-appreciated MDK2. It's hard to believe that they first announced Neverwinter Nights at the Gen Con game faire back in 1999. They chose an auspicious time to do so, cleverly making the announcement and showing the first game footage at the tail end of a presentation announcing the Dungeons & Dragons movie (which looked exciting at the time - how naive we were then) and the D&D 3rd Edition rule set.

"From the perspective of the player, the single-player story is as compelling as anything we've ever done in the past in the Baldur's Gate series," said Zeschuk. "We always worry that people overlook the solid single-player experience in Neverwinter Nights - it is a major focus of our development efforts and it is something we think people will really enjoy. We're shooting for 60 hours for the Neverwinter Nights campaign. One point to note - this can be played either single or multiplayer."

Presumably, this is much in the same way that the BG titles were playable in both single and multiplayer modes, guaranteeing a solid multiplayer game from the day you crack the shrink-wrap. "The single player experience is really solid thanks to the henchmen (NPCs) in the game," he noted, "as well as the ability of the game to scale most encounters to balance with the strength of the player."

Read the whole preview here.