Bought this off a sale, because it sounded interesting. Did not regret buying it at all. Sucks you into its world with beautiful, text based-descriptions. I honestly ignored the graphics most of the time. As a roadwarden you are tasked with finding your predecessor, exploring a wild hinderland and building trust with the world. Exactly this world interaction is what makes the game interesting, you feel free in your exploration (wthout a second playthrough it is hard to say how free one really is) and this it what really makes this one shine together with the belieable and detailed world building. At first you do not seem to be able to influence much in the world you are in, but it just takes time to explore and figure out the different possibilities until things start to click nice and rewarding. First playthrough took me about 12,5 hrs as a scholar and I think I got a quite "good" ending, I might start of again at one of my later saves to see how I can branch off from my beaten path,
First.. the title here talks about the first Add-on: Mask of the Betrayer, not about the original campaign. I very much enjoyed the OC also in fact... it is far superior in every regard to the NWN 1 campaign, which is just outright boring... this one is fun. MotB though is an entirely different type of game... believable, engaging Storyline.. Epic level gaming done right for the first time in an DnD-game IMHO... BG2:ToB was rather badly done imho... you really feel badass, but of course you have also badass opponents. I really liked the "hunger"-mechanism, so many people detest, as it really adds to the gameplay in my opinion. I also read in reviews that the battles are far to hard... WTF??? This is epic level gaming and the hard enemies were always rewarding to battle. Simply put, as other already said MotB is worth the full price already. And Rashaman is a welcome leave from the usual places :) I did not really warm to the second expansion very much though... probably because I imported my character from MotB... which is a little ;) overpowered at that point... really good idea with the overland map for travelling, though. For what it is worth... the complete pack I bought and played a few years ago wasn't really buggy also, compared to what others write here. I now just bought this again for MoW and lets see if I like this also. Anyway, a must play for anyone, who likes DnD-RPGs. The BG-followup NWN1 never was.
