Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Expansion

2010/07/31

Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Expansion

Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Expansion Review

Storm of Zehir is sure much different from all the other NWN campaigns (NWN1 and NWN2). Though MOTB still is my favourite one SOZ is absolutely a great game:
The overland map forces you to skill your characters in a way that most people usually wouldn't do: you need to skill one party member to work as your "guide" to move fast and to avoid encounters. You don't have to, but than you do not need to complain, if you have to fight every two steps. Trading and crafting is not bad, though I did not use crafting very much, there was still enough equipment around, so I ddi'nt need to craft. The team skills were also no bad Idea: I only used the one, which shortens the rest time to 4 hours, which was very usefull, as resting is only allowed on the overland maps or in taverns. The limitted resting is also forcing you to be carefull with your spells. The new dialogue system is very nice: depending on your skill another character might have to say something that others can not (e.g. if one party member has a high diplomacy skill).
There are also some minor things that I liked about the other games more: in SOZ are no ingame video sequenzes and video dialogues, which is kind of a step back from the original campaign and MOTB. There is also not really team interaction like in MOTB. I liked the principle of the influence points very much. The story is a bit short: directly to the story related quests are rare.

I just hope that games like NWN are continued to be produced as I prefer more round base role playing much more than realtime like in Oblivion (though it was a great game too).