Review Worthplaying highly recommends HotU

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark

<a href=http://www.worthplaying.com>Worthplaying</a> posted this <a href=http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=15587>review</a> of <a href=http://nwn.bioware.com/underdark>HotU</a> giving it <b>9 out of 10</b>
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<blockquote>I like how the game sends you right into battle. You don't have much time to loose before you wake up from your dream and find someone looting your room. You engage in battle and find yourself off on your quest very quickly. As you begin to dwell through the first few areas, the first being a dungeon, I couldn't help but stop and look around as I saw a lot of artwork that made it feel like I was playing Baldurs Gate, not Neverwinter Nights. I stopped in a room where a beholder attacks in the beginning of your quest and thought it was Baldurs Gate. You get the feeling very early on with the quality of sounds, music, textures and a story that's interesting up front, that the level of development here was not going to disappoint. This is a well made game and Bioware is reasserting its prowess as a heavyweight in quality RPG experiences.
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On a side note if you look into some of the early reviews of NWN, you will find ok ratings but not great ones. Most reviews said the story and game play was ok, but after years of development the experience was a little disappointing to some. Now, if many people were to go back and change their rating it would be higher. This is simply because of all the tools and support that were built into the game for mod makers and dungeon masters to make worlds of their own. <u>If the game play and story in the original were on the level of Hordes I think initial reviews would have been higher.</u> This is important because Bioware is busily working on it's next alchemy and creating a good single player experience is probably going to boost consumer confidence for their next outing.
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If. If is a good word. If the story in the original was better, if the gameplay was deeper, if all the promises were fulfilled, and, of course, if reviewers didn't overhype it, then it could have been a much better game
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[Diogo Ribeiro]

On a side note if you look into some of the early reviews of NWN, you will find ok ratings but not great ones.

Kidding, right? NWN is one of the games i know with a high index of overrated reviews.

 

[EEVIAC]

Kidding, right? NWN is one of the games i know with a high index of overrated reviews.

See Metacritic's NWN page. Some of the user comments are amusing though.

 

[Transcendent One]

Dear God, reading those first couple "reviews" felt like a stab into the brain!

 

[Volourn]

Jake M. gave it a 3:
What in the heck was Atari thinking when they made this? No scratch that, what in the heck was I thinking when I bought this game? This is a horrible game, and you catch the drift right once you actually start playing. Reading is tedious, and I figured Atari would have figured that out, I spent the first 5 minutes talking to the first guy. And then the next 30 reading the rest of the crap everyone else had to say. Thus leaving me out of action, and a game with no action, is a boring game. Trust me, when tomorrow comes around this game is going back to the shelf I picked it up from. The only reason I gave it a 3 was because I figured there are some people out there who like being submerged into stupid games. I suggest you check the game out at your friend’s house before wasting your time by just buying it and returning it.



Not enough action in the OC? I thought one of the major complaints was there *was* too much action in the OC?

And, another thing, I may disagree with various people's overall opinion of NWN - espicially the OC - but the complaints are usually much better than the negative "reviews" found on that page. Of course, many of the positive 'reviews' ain't much better.