What I initially considered just a "paid patch", turned out to be much more, especially for people who really care about this game, play and/or community content. You may dislike Beamdog for their original content(Siege of Dragonspear, I am looking at you!), but their tech stuff certainly knows what they are doing, and NWN:EE is an example of that. Gradually improving UI, introducing graphical enhacements and fixing bugs, also, finally -- a quality linux port. This is the stuff that common gamer would immediately notice, but there are a lot more changes under the hood. A lot of work has been done to make the game even more moddable and configurable and it seems like Beamdog does not intend to stop their work in any of these directions. I hope, I do not need to explain what NWN is and why moddability is really important for this game. Original Campaign is but a demo of possibilities(but do not neglect the addons, they do a lot better at story and OC also have it's own highlights), that can be and are done by modders to tell their own stories and build their own worlds supported by a strong ruleset of D&D 3 -- look for example at Shadowlords/Dreamcatcher/Demon campaigns. Not only that, but a first-class multiplayer is present, allowing for a wide variety of playing styles from cooperatively playing through a story to an MMO-like persistent world.
This game is really strange. It's made by obsidian, but looks like a bad excuse for obsidian games. Writing is horrible. Satire is obnoxiously obvious -- the game throws in your face right from the beginning. There is no subtlety, no cleverness, no thought. It's privimitive. With that immersion is absolutely broken. There is no life, no world behind these lines of text. It's all smoke and mirrors. Rule system is really strange -- you raise skills in groups, but each skill in group may have it's individual value(or they may all be the same, sometimes depending on attributes, sometimes -- on whatever), so you don't have precise enough control over character development. Combat is pure action, so it is rather a shooter game with rpg elements than anything else. Overall -- a huge disappointment.
