Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries Of Westgate Goes Gold
After Storm of Zehir, the lackluster second expansion pack to Neverwinter Nights 2, I worried there might not be any more official content coming down to the venerable Forgotten Realms RPG. Luckily, Ossian Studios has taken over for Obsidian in the development of Mysteries of Westgate, the third expansion.
Founded by former BioWare employees, Ossian made its first mark with the excellent Darkness Over Daggerford mod. Mysteries of Westgate takes players to the bustling urban center of the Dragon Coast and adds 15 hours of epic fun replete with new creatures and tileset, new music and voice-over work. Yay. Features include:
- A 15+ hour campaign of high adventure with multiple paths and endings for players to choose from - an ideal role-playing experience!
- Non-linear gameplay with plenty of sidequests to uncover and solve in different ways, including class-specific options.
- Well balanced so that even the weaker player classes, like bards, will have a fun time.
- 4 new creatures including the wererat and quelzarn.
- A new Sewer tileset used to create the seedy underbelly of Westgate, with tunnels, vaulted ceilings, rusty pipes, deep pools, and bridges.
- 25 minutes of hauntingly beautiful new music from composer David John.
- Hundreds of lines of new, professional quality voice-over.
It'll have to do until Dragon Age comes out, but I'm hoping that Ossian delivers more than filler. I'm already re-rolling a "weak" bard. (Weak? Weak! If I weren't a bard I'd kick somebody's ass for that...)
Mysteries of Westgate goes GOLD! [NWNVault]
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Posted to Video Games on 5 March 2009
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