Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum Edition - PC

In this package you get the game with all of the latest patches and updates (e: after downloading them through the auto-downloader) and the two expansions, "Mask of the Betrayer" and "Storm of Zehir." You also get a tool-set but I haven't bothered with it yet. Unfortunately I'm late to the series, but I've played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 recently (for the first time!...after enjoying Dragon Age: Origins) and this seems right up my alley. Before updating I ran into the Sunken Flagon bug which is a game-breaker. After updating the issue was fixed and I only encountered the occasional graphical hic-up. Not too bad considering the complaints with the original release of this title.You don't need to register online or be online at all to enjoy the singe-player experience, however, you will want to update through the game to get the latest patches/updates. You can do it yourself but doing it through the game is MUCH less of a headache. Updating does require an internet connection. It comes with three "key #s" on the inside of the instruction manual. One for each game/expansion. It comes in a dvd case with three discs and is reasonably packaged. The security as far as I can tell is a disc-check.Friends have recommended that I try Neverwinter 1 if I planned to play online (which I don't). You get one character there, but here... you get several. The strategy for the battles is along the same lines as Dragon Age: Origins which is why I tried this one out. I will be trying out Neverwinter 1 someday.If you like fantasy, a little bit of strategy, and micro-managing then this is probably for you. The game is a few years old and although it doesn't look great- it doesn't look bad at all. If you have wanderlust after playing Dragon Age: Origins, and are looking for something like it, then this should fit the bill. This game doesn't control as nice. The camera is awkward at first but you'll get used to it. And this being an older game it doesn't look as nice as DA:O. BUT, it's still really fun. And you get more freedom with developing your character.The other reviewer wrote a really nice detailed review...but I wanted to add my two cents in case anyone is on the fence about it. No regrets in purchasing this. For only twenty bucks you get a lot of bang for your buck. It's definitely recommended.Edited 29/1/2013GOG is selling this game all patched up for $19.99 with no drm (no online connection nor disc check necessary etc). It went on sale January 24th. A cheaper option worth consideration nowadays...thought I'd give a heads up.

Reading all the reviews I held off getting nwn2 until the price came way down and it had as many patches as possible. This feedback is based upon my daughter finishing nwn2 and I'm about half way through.We love nwn1 and play it all the time. Nwn2 is a bit more linear in the story, but that has not been too bad. In nwn1 it felt like I was exploring a world AND solving problems, where in nwn2 it follows more of a script of what has to be done next to solve problems. I liked the nwn1 exploration because I could pick the order to do things and hence find weapons, amour and artifacts in the order I wanted to get them - to maximize my character's abilities. This gave nwn1 a lot of replayability where I don't see it, yet, in nwn2.Nwn2 would fail in area transitions and/or generate BSODs (blue screen of death, such as x124 - hardware failure). We did everything from reinstalling nwn2 to rebuilding a PC's software from scratch (wipe and reinstall windows+nwn2 only) to swapping graphics/GPU cards (ATI Radeon HD 4600 series, EVGA GeForce GT 240, motherboard GPU). For us, nwn2 causes the GPUs to fail not only during the game but even right after playing the game while just in windows (this on the ATI GPU). The consistent fix, so far, was to back off the nwn2 resolution one step (so from the game maximum 1920x1080 to 1776x1000). Other graphics intensive games, such as Starcraft II, did not have these problems on our PCs.Navigating, moving the characters around, is the worst part of the game (not a big problem in nwn1). I got use to it and even learned to use the keyboard keys (QWEASD) a bit to make it less jumpy and more predictable. Having a better GPU also made navigating with the mouse a bit more predictable and less jumpy. However, I feel my ability to play the game for any length of time is limited by the "effort" to keep the navigation under control. I get tired of that effort before I tire of the game.If you really liked nwn1, as we did, then I believe you would like nwn2 well enough -- for this price -- to put up with the jumpy navigation, assuming you don't have graphic card problems you can't solve.Update 2/1/2012: The x124 error turned out not to be nwn2 related, but a bad motherboard that had to be replaced, but otherwise we still did have to work around other BSODs by reducing the resolution. As to navigation, using the NVIDIA GeForce 240 graphic cards on Pentium Dual-Core CPUs (E6500 @ 2.9 Ghz) we got nice and smooth navigation that was no longer a chore to work with (no longer jumping around, jerky, unpredictable). So you may want to play with the graphics settings util your navigation is playable (the graphics options give hints which settings will improve performance while reducing screen detail, so not as nice looking). If it is hard to get to a playable configuration, your graphics card may simply not be up to the task (our GeForce 210 and Radeon 4670 were not up to it). My daughter has now played nwn2 (plus Betrayer & Zehir) through 3 times ... I'm still working through the original nwn2 portion.

great classic game. Runs great in Windows 8. Takes a while to patch to get it so you don't have to use the DVD.

was easy to buy got this quickly and impeccable condition well package for a PC Game.great tracking of the part of the vendor. thank you.