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Title: Versus Books Official Neverwinter Nights Adventure Perfect Guide by Casey Loe, Christopher Eastwood, Patrick Cunningham ISBN: 1-931886-03-2 Publisher: Versus Books Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: The Incomplete Guide
Comment: The guide was written before the game was complete - specifically the final level. Their comment is "As of press time the final encounter was still not complete, so we don't know exactly what waits on the other side of that portal..." Not exactly helpful. Nor would I call it "Complete" or "Perfect"
The maps and narrative are quest specific. Other areas where you might encounter creatures, houses, or items are left out. The maps are inconsistent in quality. Some are thorough and well marked. Others are missing the letters being referenced completely.
The creature, item, and spells appendix is not much more useful than finding it in the game and examining it. Reference to where the items might be found or made is not given. The narrative text does list items that can be forged, but a hint to the rest (i.e. high level boss chest in ch4 only) is missing.
Multiplayer is not covered at all.
Final: If you are really struggling with the early and mid portion of the game, you are probably better off looking online. If you want to mule your way through making sure you get every quest, this book has some limited value.
Rating: 3
Summary: so-so guide for NWN
Comment: I'm obviously in the minority here; I didn't hate the book, nor did I find it worthy of a great review. I think the book is just so-so. It does the job giving you a point in the right direction, but sometimes, only barely.
I love NWN, and purchased this book to help slog through the different possible quests. I think that the asking price was too much for a magazine-ish glossy book.
Aside from the price, there were other things to disappoint. There were errors in the book (I'm guessing that the book was written before the game was finished). Also, the layout and organization is horrible. Columns of text are punctuated with screenshots and cartoon-ish. The maps in the book are not great, either.
On the other hand, the book does point you in the right direction, and I found myself flipping through it in order to save some time and rack up a few extra quests.
A good portion of the book lists out spells, weapons, skills, and monsters. These sections are easiest to read and most uniform, more so than the little book that comes with NWN.
For those of us who don't get dressed up and beat each other with wooden swords on the weekends (or know the newer DND rules), this book is helpful, if you can get past the gaudy, glossy, cluttered pages.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not bad
Comment: I definitley can't speak for the rest of the people who reveiwed this game guide but I found it to be informative and detailed. I'm new to the rpg gameing experience so people who have played rpg's for a while might dissagree, but on the whole I found the charachter descriptions to be very well written and useful.
The only major flaws I found were the lack of markings on some of the maps which gets confusing, but the weapon appendix and spell appendix was way better than I could've hoped for. I also plan on getting the world builders guide, and I can only hope that is's half as good as the adventure guide. :-)
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Title: Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide Official Strategy Guide by Michael Lummis ISBN: 0744002680 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 27 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Neverwinter Nights(TM) : Hordes of the Underdark(TM) Official Strategy Guide by Michael Lummis ISBN: 0744003415 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 04 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Versus Books Official Neverwinter Nights World Builder's Perfect Guide by Casey Loe, Versus Staff, Patrick Cunningham ISBN: 193188613X Publisher: Versus Books Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title:Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark Expansion Pack ASIN: B00009MGVH Publisher: Atari Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $29.99 |
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Title:Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide Expansion Pack ASIN: B00007M57T Publisher: Atari Pub. Date: 18 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.99 |
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