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Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 10 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Atari
Developer: BioWare
Genre(s): Role-Playing Game
Players: 64
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Summary
The second expansion for the revolutionary role-playing game Neverwinter Nights. BioWare has created a dark and dangerous world of adventure set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Your hands are callused from many years of weapon play, your mind is sharp from hundreds of books studied, your feet are nimble from slipping unseen and unheard past thousands of guards and your faith is unshakable in the gods you worship... but will it be enough for this final terror? Will you stand once more for those who cannot? You are the last hope for the Forgotten Realms, you must face the unstoppable, you must decide the fate of all. You are a hero... but are you a legend? Epic levels, new prestige classes, new creatures, spells, feats, weapons and new tilesets to explore... endless adventure! [BioWare]
Also On Metacritic
GAMES: Neverwinter Nights Neverwinter Nights 2 Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Worth Playing
It is a better adventure, in my opinion than the original game and definitely a level up from "Shadows of Undrentide."
Read Full Review >Quandary
At the very end the final confrontation is a treat. It can be one almighty battle that will test you to the limit, or it can be easier, or perfectly simple. It all depends on what has happened before.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
Between the game's multiple endings and its awesome character creation, it's definitely worth playing this 20-plus hour game again just to get a different feel for its compelling story and tight gameplay.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
Needless to say, the story is strong, contains all the typical Bioware twists, turns and quality writing, and fans of power-D&D will have a lot to crow about.
Read Full Review >Computer Games Magazine
Some of BioWare's finest storytelling and scripting work. [Mar 2004, p.73]
Armchair Empire
The adventure is decently long (15-20 hours) and has a unique feel and tone when set beside the earlier official offerings and the mod community stuff.
Read Full Review >Game Chronicles
The revised level cap will be a slam dunk hit, and the new resources will give builders plenty to play with. The campaign alone is worth the price of admission.
Read Full Review >ActionTrip
Offers a considerably more rewarding experience than the Shadows of Underntide.
Read Full Review >GameZone
All the hard work put in to leveling your characters truly pays off with the challenge of this title. To put it simply, if you are a fan of Neverwinter Nights, you will want this expansion.
Read Full Review >IGN
The story is great, the epic battles are truly epic and the graphics have been given a slight tweak.
Read Full Review >Computer and Video Games
The focus on the single-player experience, along with Bioware's top-notch level design has created an expansion pack with great detail and atmosphere that's arguably even more immediately immersive than the original game. [PC Zone]
Read Full Review >1UP
Since nothing, not even "Undrentide," is as polished and well done as Hordes, the expansion is still an obvious purchase for fans of the series who may have every user created module to date.
Read Full Review >DailyGame
Those of you who are invested in the series will be very happy with the new features and the 15 to 20 hours of single player hack-and-slash action that this expansion offers.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
The amount by which it expands the game in every direction is truly epic. [Feb 2004, p.110]
Read Full Review >FiringSquad
You’re not likely to find another game that lets you skip the pansy levels and move onto the dragon-smiting immediately.
Read Full Review >GameShark
With some new gameplay, a ton of new loot, and lots more choices for character creation and advancement, Hordes of the Underdark is a must buy for fans of the original game.
Read Full Review >Game Revolution
The best part of Hordes of the Underdark turns out not to be the new campaign, but the extensive online support and terrific response to its dedicated fan base.
Read Full Review >PC Gamer
Hordes' goodness mostly comes down to its deliciously vicious weapons, brawnier spells, phatter loot, and more monumental ass-whupping (allowed by the higher level-cap). [Mar 2004, p.64]
Gamer's Hell
The storyline is reasonably interesting, there’s plenty of new stuff to check out, and it looks pretty good. It’s not an amazing expansion, but it's better than "Shadows of the Undrentide" in every way.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
The expansion's substantial single-player campaign should last most players 15-20 hours, and while it doesn't have many surprises, it does offer some worthwhile new features that Neverwinter Nights fans should enjoy.
Read Full Review >G4 TV
You get a capable, satisfying single-player game, access to many new prestige classes, a much higher level limit, and a wide assortment of new bits for the toolset. For the closet game designer, these additions alone are worth the price.
Read Full Review >Adrenaline Vault
It adds a gigantic single-player campaign and a plethora of new monsters, spells, character classes and items. The expansion also significantly updates the overall graphical quality, potentially adding to the life of the franchise without getting in the way of what made the original fun.
Read Full Review >netjak
The additions alone make it worth picking up, and, at the end of the day, it still manages to tell a hell of a story. After all, isn’t that what really counts?
Read Full Review >Computer Gaming World
Has that woefully underbaked, released-just-in-time-for-the-holidays taint to it, and that's just a colossal shame, because underneath that nastiness is a great, great expansion. [Mar 2004, p.78]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
[Anonymous] gave it a 9:
Great game, better storyline than the previous 2 games.
Morten E. gave it a 10:
Extremely good game if you liked the past games in the series you will love this game.
Meert gave it a 10:
It's really an epic scope adventure. You can't just breeze through hacking and slashing everyone else. You make your choices throughout the game and these choices do change the outcome of the game.
John V. gave it a 10:
Wow , Bioware did a really great job with this game. HoTU puts SoU to shame. A must buy for anyone who likes Neverwinter Nights.
James C. gave it a 10:
Freakin awesome!
Patrick O. gave it a 10:
Even better than the first expansion pack...amazing graphics and storyline!
