The game is superficially the same as Neverwinter Nights, but is improved in almost every way, especially for fans of in-depth single-player role-playing games. Now, over four years later, Obsidian picks up the mantle with Neverwinter Nights 2.
The game was an immediate hit, and while it was a big departure from the previous Dungeons & Dragons games from BioWare, like the esteemed Baldur’s Gate II, the game and its expansion packs went on to sell over a million copies.
The game shipped with a robust suite of world-building tools, giving wannabe dungeon masters the ability to create their own scenarios and modules to share online. By: Matthew Rorie Design: Randall Montanariįor fans of online role-playing games, the release of Neverwinter Nights in 2002 was a revelation.
