Neverwinter Night 2 is gold!

[VictimOfScience]

NEW YORK, October 17, 2006 - Atari, Inc (Nasdaq: ATAR) and Obsidian Entertainment today announced that the highly-anticipated Neverwinter Nights 2 has gone gold and is on schedule to ship to stores nationwide on October 31 in North America and on November 3 in Europe. Neverwinter Nights 2, the sequel to BioWare Corp.'s best-selling and genre-defining role-playing game, is set in the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Forgotten Realms universe created by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), and will transport players back to the embattled city of Neverwinter. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is under license from the Hasbro Properties Group, the intellectual property development arm of Hasbro. Neverwinter Nights 2 will be released for the Windows platform.

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Good stuff. I can't wait to get into this one and check out the toolset!

 

[CptStern]

beat me to it

gametab'd


I guess it'll arrive before gothic 3 ;( ...still not sold on NWN2 ...although it looks deep etc ..I'm afraid the limited combat may bore me to death

btw didnt the toolset come out weeks ago if you pre-ordered? I know there's a few people who've been tinkering with it for a weeks now

 

[Gargantou]

This is great, I've been waiting for a new good Forgotten Realms game forever, I'm replaying Pools of Darkness though, one of the best Forgotten Realm games ever, thank god for The Forgotten Realms Archives Silver Edition!

 

[VictimOfScience]

beat me to it

gametab'd


I guess it'll arrive before gothic 3 ;( ...still not sold on NWN2 ...although it looks deep etc ..I'm afraid the limited combat may bore me to death

btw didnt the toolset come out weeks ago if you pre-ordered? I know there's a few people who've been tinkering with it for a weeks now

Hahaha! Yup, Gametab ftw.

The combat does look a little limiting, but everything else will hopefully make up for it. Didn't mind so much in the first one. (Poor Gothic 3--I still have high hopes for the stateside release.)

The toolset has been out if you pre-ordered, though I have yet to read anything too interesting about it yet. (Busy with DS and MAME).

 

[HunterSeeker]

I have it on preorder and must say the toolset is great stuff (There was a beta version avalible for those who preordered it).

I have not followed every little detail but if they are more true to the Dungeons and Dragons rules than the original NWN, this rpg will likely be the rpg with most combat options that are currently out.

 

[Sainku]

Been waiting for this one for a while. Its great you can control your team in this one. And it looks a lot more versatile than the old NWN engine.

From what I have read it looks like they are staying a bit more true to the DnD rules than NWN, even though they are using a different ruleset. I was never a big fan of the DnD rules so I don't really care either way.

 

[DeusExMachina]

The only reason I even care about NWN 2 is the simple fact that Chris Avellone is penning the story and characters.

Can't wait though.