Atari sent out a fact sheet earlier today listing many of the features we can expect to find in Obsidian's Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer expansion pack.
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 � 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:
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 you�ve never seen it before.
* Explore an amazingly reactive world, where your decisions affect those around you and the passage of time realistically impacts gameplay.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Customize your character with over 60 epic feats including the monk�s Blazing Aura, the rogue�s Epic Precision, and the druid�s Dragon Shape.
* Master more than 50 new spells, including epic spells such as mass fowl, damnation, and vampiric feast.
* Play new D&D classes such as the Red Wizard of Thay, spirit shaman, and invisible blade.
* Collect souls from defeated foes to create mighty artefacts using an expanded item enchantment system.
* Create your own D&D adventures to play with friends online with enhanced modding tools.
- Atari
I clean up my override folder because it looks messy by deleting everything in it. now when I play motb, some icons are missing. so does anyone have the icon folder?
Posted by Tom_McG at 2011-02-04 10:58:03 Voted 1.00 on 02/04/11
I do not like the story.
Posted by akibara at 2010-12-09 09:44:56 Voted 1.00 on 12/09/10
Lowering the avarage for the horrible ending
Still waiting on a mod that lets me go toe to toe with kelemvore, the wall is BS and epic characters have plenty of power to challenge a god.
Posted by zpucek at 2010-08-20 04:10:06 Voted 10.00 on 08/20/10
Is this the actual expansion or somthing else cause i cant cant any of them and 1 would be great at least
Posted by foram at 2009-10-25 04:51:48 Voted 9.75 on 10/25/09
I liked this too, although it's strange we're voting on it.
Posted by aienas at 2009-10-20 09:42:31 Voted 10.00 on 10/20/09
I played it twice. To see the good ending, and the bad ending. This about sums it all up, since I'm not replaying anything that takes more than 1 hour.
But if I was to write more about this masterpiece, I would point out:
1. Excellent new music. Yes. Music adds much, very, very much, to the overall feeling. Many people forget about putting custom music in their modules, and this retracts from the experience. Here is not the case. The music is simply enchanting.
2. The spirit meter. It adds some planning, cunning (you can deal with it in a few different ways) and *urgency* to the game. And, last but not the least, realism.
3. New creatures, models, areas, concepts.
4. Story. I simply love it. It's deep, enchanting, so deliciously dark, so... well. I could go like this all day.
5. Characters. Gone are the days of the bland creatures from OC. Now I really liked my companions and felt attached to them.
6. Areas. New and beautiful.
It is a masterpiece for me.
Posted by fishnuke at 2009-09-11 15:09:45 Voted 9.25 on 09/11/09
Overall pretty excellent. Thanks for the high-level module. Hope an epic sequel comes along. Far too few modules make use of epic levels and feats, and the low-level stuff is just boring (oh no, another solitary kobold!). Didn't like the spirit eater curse timer, but once I figured out how to DebugMode that one away, it was a very enjoyable module, with an interesting and provocative storyline. I quite enjoyed the shadow side of the areas, and talking to Myrkul (what a scene!).
Posted by Leeda at 2009-08-22 10:26:41 Voted 9.75 on 08/22/09
I loved this expansion! The story I thought was amazing, interactions with the NPCs was amazing. The atmosphere was amazing.
My only ripe was that I would have wanted to see an ending were th wall was torn down and teh disaster that Kelemvor mentioned would play out as an ending scene.
Voice actors were remarkable.
I have to admit that when it first came out I didnt like it at all and never fifnished it. Now with some time, I restarted it and finished it with two different endings and I loved it so much!
Posted by Valkronn at 2009-07-01 16:11:07 Voted 9.00 on 07/01/09
Thank god, a good official expansion! I played SoZ (which is crap) before playing MoTB and I have to say I wasn't too much confident about it...I have to say I was wrong! I really did enjoyed it! Dark atmosphere, interesting companions! I was really catched up with the story and I found the oniric ending awesome! Plus, I find it quite well balanced, hard thing to find around, especially when you're playing such uber characters...I guess someone could be bothered by the spirit-meter-system but I think that was great, it helps the RPGing.
Posted by ashes2flames at 2009-06-01 16:12:39 Voted 9.50 on 06/01/09
@Makumba..
I completed MoTB the first time through without consuming a single spirit (besides the ones you are compelled to via quests). This was a role playing choice for me (I fought the hunger). Simply suppress before resting. Suppress before traveling. Had zero craving and no problems with spirit level.
The few times I found myself at 70% or so, I just suppressed / traveled / suppressed back and forth a couple times (between places close by like ashenwood and the burning grove). Never entered any dungeon or major zone at less then 90+%.
MoTB was a great campaign. Great story. If the spirit meter isn't your thing than you can make it a non-issue the same way I did.
Posted by Makumba666 at 2009-05-30 15:26:46 Voted 1.00 on 05/30/09
This is worst expansion, or worst RPG game mechanic I'we seen in my life. Managing castle in original version was a tedious and rather boring process, but it is nothing compared to new invention of MOTB authors - hunger. I actually dont even think it is possible to complet game without cheating - raising hunger bar. I've heard that there are plenty places, where spirits could be found etc. - bullshit! Even if you find plenty spirits in one place you still need to rest, which takes about half of bar + you get more hungry when traveling between locations. Often you are forced to return some locations to "feed" etc. Even more - when you go to another location you must calculate would you have enough "gas" to return back, or you die somewhere. Damn! I consider RPG distincts from taxi simulation by the first is all about free roaming having hunger bar and losing 10% every hour makes this expansion unplayable, abominable piece of*bleep*!
I am fan of sequel since Baldurs Gate and now I can tell without any doubts - I hate Neverwinter!
Posted by fightermedic at 2009-04-30 14:57:23 Voted 9.50 on 04/30/09
GREAT voice acting (english)
GrEAT story (ok the ending could be better.. SO wanted to tear that stupid wall appart)
Posted by G1Megatron at 2009-04-23 03:33:42 Voted 10.00 on 04/23/09
Agree with gpap93, Akatchi the man = toast. On the other hand Akatchi as the spirit hunger = epic struggle!
Posted by G1Megatron at 2009-04-23 03:30:25 Voted 10.00 on 04/23/09
Took a little while to get use to it and the feel, the change from the OC. After growing into the story and that the spirit meter truly makes one feel cursed, I really appreciated the attention to detail and the character development if you chose to pursue it. I tend to think many under appreciate this mod. Had a blast with it after a little learning curve and letting my depth of thought delve into the play.
Posted by g_pap93 at 2009-04-19 10:00:46 Voted 9.75 on 04/19/09
This is a good expansion of the original NWN2 campaign. As for the spirit eater, it was annoying but you have supress and satiate if no spirits are near. All in all good job, but in my opinion Akachi was piece of cake.
Posted by Peskywabbit at 2009-02-18 04:37:14 Voted 10.00 on 02/18/09
The original campaign for NwN2 was a huge letdown after playing NwN1. But MotB is great, really bought my hopes back up for the future of NwN2
Posted by NajaMtl at 2009-01-27 13:08:46 Voted 4.00 on 01/27/09
I buy this complement for NWN2, and I was very deceived.
1- Ok, the graphic is good, but not that good.
2- I was not able to play it when I have some other modules, It crash and all the trigers doesn't work. I have to completly remove all the modules I have in the override in my documents.
3- I doesn't like a scenario when you are constantly dying because of that appetite for souls. I try 7 perso to finaly give up. So, I never finish this scenario, because of that reason.
Why do a campaign when the perso died everytime at the 1/3 of it.
4- Finaly, I buy this campaign only to be able to install far more better modules and campaigns done by all the great people with great imagination.
Yeah! On my point of view, This campaign sock's...
Naja
Posted by Lariam at 2009-01-27 01:47:20 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/09
I must admit that like may others, I did dislike the spirit meter thingy more than I liked it (I did like it, too, in some respects). _________________________ Forgotten Realms Weave
Posted by Lariam at 2009-01-27 01:45:58 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/09
Good stuff. Except that I still wonder who keeps leaving those treasures in them barrels. Also, the epic levels could've been handled with somewhat lighter treasure and without the "epic gnoll" -style opponents. But still, the writing, the story, the characters, the new content... As an NWN2 module, this clearly is a masterpiece, genuinely groundbreaking. _________________________ Forgotten Realms Weave
Posted by wycked at 2009-01-09 09:17:21 Voted 4.50 on 01/09/09
**Posted by Fistalis at 2008-12-29 20:24:14 Voted 4.50 on 12/29/08
Roughly 3 hours into it i found myself longing for the OC. Only to find they did not update the OC to allow about 20+ leveling when they released MoTB. New additions to the toolset were nice but seemed pretty skimp in comparison to what previous expansions in the series added(read SOU and HotU). Spirit meter removed any sense of NWN from the game. Seemed like they cared less what NWN fans have come to expect and more about trying to change the game dynamic.**
That's exactely the same thing I've been thinking, both with this expansion and the latest; Storm of Zehir. The game doesn't feel like Neverwinter Nights anymore. I had so much fun playing Neverwinter Nights 1 with expansions and the countless modules. I wish they could take a couple of steps back and just make a solid D&D RPG and stop ruining a perfectly good game with a lot of nonsence =( Voting 4.50 just for Gann. He was an interesting character, the rest sucked. Story? Hated it. Spirit meter? Hated it with a passion.
Posted by DavidMad at 2009-01-02 00:56:13 Voted 6.00 on 01/02/09
mmmm... I enjoyed some of the ideas, but overall unremarkable.
Posted by nicnac666 at 2008-12-31 05:38:56 Voted 5.00 on 12/31/08
Just voting...
Posted by Fistalis at 2008-12-29 20:24:14 Voted 4.50 on 12/29/08
Roughly 3 hours into it i found myself longing for the OC. Only to find they did not update the OC to allow about 20+ leveling when they released MoTB. New additions to the toolset were nice but seemed pretty skimp in comparison to what previous expansions in the series added(read SOU and HotU). Spirit meter removed any sense of NWN from the game. Seemed like they cared less what NWN fans have come to expect and more about trying to change the game dynamic.
Posted by janjetina at 2008-12-24 02:21:13 Voted 10.00 on 12/24/08
In terms of story, characters and roleplaying, Mask of the Betrayer excells and can be considered a top-notch RPG. I especially like the fact that the story and the game mechanics are intertwined by the original Spirit meter mechanics. A significant improvement over the lackluster original campaign in every aspect, this game is not perfect, but it arguably belongs among top 5 RPGs ever released.
Posted by Luonnotar at 2008-12-23 20:17:29 Voted 6.50 on 12/23/08
Changes my rating. _________________________ ::RAWR::
Posted by seeker22 at 2008-12-03 09:39:51 Voted 5.00 on 12/03/08
Tells about everything.
Plus the "good" ending just sucks. This is the first game ever where I found the evil ending more satisfying than the good one.
Posted by Taichung at 2008-11-26 10:15:57 Voted 10.00 on 11/26/08
10 - A Masterpiece, Genuinely Groundbreaking 9 - Outstanding, a Must Have 8 - Excellent, Recommended to Anyone 7 - Very Good, Deserves a Look 6 - Good, Qualified Recommendation 5 - Fair, Solid yet Unremarkable 4 - Some Merit, Requires Improvements 3 - Poor Execution, Potential Unrealized 2 - Very Little Appeal 1 - Not Recommended to Anyone
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