MotB Fact Sheet

[420]

Platform: Windows
Release Date: Autumn 2007
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment, Inc.
Publisher: Atari
Category: Role Playing Game
PEGI Rating: 12+

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Following the climactic battle against the King of Shadows, you awaken alone and stranded deep beneath the earth. A dark hunger grows within you, threatening to devour your very soul. Will you fight against the hunger within or will you embrace it, revelling in your newfound power?

Set in harsh, spirit-rich Rashemen, near the powerful nation of Thay, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer presents players with an exciting new 20-30+ hour campaign filled with meaningful choices, rich characters, and surprising outcomes. Continue the adventure of your Neverwinter Nights 2 character or create a completely new epic hero â?? no previous Neverwinter Nights experience required. Hundreds of new gameplay options include epic levels; feats, spells, races, and classes; powerful weapons, armour, and crafting options; and hordes of diverse creatures.

PRODUCT FEATURES:

â?¢ Major improvements to the Neverwinter Nights franchise: enhanced graphics, including extensive use of specularity, environment effects, and normal maps; improved performance; streamlined party control; and an easier to use and more powerful toolset. Experience Neverwinter Nights 2 at its best.

â?¢ Epic storyline provides the most riveting RPG experience since Planescape: Torment, with the compelling characters and plotlines for which Obsidian Entertainment is renowned. Play the official campaign either alone or online with your friends.

â?¢ Stunning new environments include the Astral Plane, sunken Imaskari ruins, a Thayan wizard academy, and the Shadow Plane. Immerse yourself in the Forgotten Realms as youâ??ve never seen it before.

â?¢ Explore an amazingly reactive world, where your decisions affect those around you and the passage of time realistically impacts gameplay.

â?¢ Switch seamlessly between exploration and tactical combat with the immersive, over the shoulder view of Character Mode and the top down perspective of Strategy Mode with its RTS-like controls.

â?¢ Combat and negotiate with dozens of new creatures including many D&D favourites such as blue dragons, treants, hags, solars, and the two-headed fell troll.

â?¢ Choose from over 20 classic and exotic D&D races, including the new genasi: planetouched humanoids hailing from the elemental planes of air, earth, fire, or water.

â?¢ Customize your character with over 60 epic feats including the monkâ??s Blazing Aura, the rogueâ??s Epic Precision, and the druidâ??s Dragon Shape.

â?¢ Master more than 50 new spells, including epic spells such as mass fowl, damnation, and vampiric feast.

â?¢ Play new D&D classes such as the Red Wizard of Thay, spirit shaman, and invisible blade.

â?¢ Collect souls from defeated foes to create mighty artefacts using an expanded item enchantment system.

â?¢ Create your own D&D adventures to play with friends online with enhanced modding tools.

OK, it's bad enough that Obsidian claimed that NWN2 was "NWN1 with better graphics". The community ripped them a new asshole over that claim.

I guess they didn't learn their lesson because now they are comparing the expansion's campaign to Planescape: Torment! They are fucking delusional! What in the fuck are they thinking?!?!?

My theory is that Obsidian will shut down after MotB is released so they are just saying whatever they can to sell it.

-420

[Tyrael]

nwn2 is nowhere near as good as nwn1, the only thing are the graphics because the rest its worse or ripped off the game.

[Elessar Telrunya]

Yet again the only thing that makes this game the least bit appealing is the setting...


-Elessar

[cuchulann]

An epic spell called "Mass Fowl?" What the hell will that do? Release a flock of pidgeons to poop on an enemy?

[Elessar Telrunya]

Exactly, but the bird crap won't come off their armor so they're stuck with it forever!

[420]

It looks like Mass Fowl is probably an altered version of this Epic Spell from the 3.5 System Reference Docs:

Mass Frog
Transmutation
Spellcraft DC: 55
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 300 ft.
Area: 40-ft.-radius hemisphere
Duration: Permanent
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
To Develop: 495,000 gp; 10 days; 19,800 XP. Seed: trans-form (DC 21). Factors: change target to Area of 20-ft. hemisphere (+10 DC), increase Area by 100% (+4 DC), 1- action casting time (+20 DC).
This epic spell turns all Medium-size or smaller creatures in the Area into frogs. The transformed creatures retain their mental faculties, including personality, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, level and class, hit points (despite any change in Consitution score), alignment, base attack bonus, base save bonuses, extraordinary abilities, spells, and spell-like abilities, but not supernatural abilities. They assume the physical characteristics of frogs, including natural size and Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores. (Use the statistics for the toad.) All the creaturesâ?? equipment drops to the ground upon transformation.

If nothing else it should make PvP more interesting.

-420

[Soul Sojourner]

Collect souls from defeated foes to create mighty artefacts using an expanded item enchantment system.

Smells like Morrowind.