Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

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  • Summary: Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition adds all-new enhanced features to the playable content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition.

    Slink through the shadows as a deadly half-elven rogue, wield fearsome magics as a powerful gnomish sorcerer, vanquish your foes as an armor-clad dwarven    Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition adds all-new enhanced features to the playable content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition.

    Slink through the shadows as a deadly half-elven rogue, wield fearsome magics as a powerful gnomish sorcerer, vanquish your foes as an armor-clad dwarven paladin... whatever hero you create, incredible adventures await.

    Discover magic, wonder, and danger at every turn on your own or with friends in these classic Dungeons & Dragons adventures.

    Enhanced Features:
    - Mobile Play: A new virtual joystick and context sensitive button makes gameplay easy
    - Improved Display: Featuring a new re-engineered UI for tablet and phone play. Portrait, combat bar, inventory, and other UI elements adjust in size based on device resolution, and can be scaled to your liking.
    - Advanced Graphics Options: Pixel shaders and post-processing effects make for crisper, cleaner visuals. Enable contrast, vibrance, and depth of field options as preferred.
    - Community Endorsed: Original developers have teamed with key members of the Neverwinter Nights community to curate important fan-requested improvements to support players, storytellers, and modders.
    - Backwards Compatibility: Works with save games, modules, and mods from the original Neverwinter Nights. A galaxy of community created content awaits.
    - Cross-Platform Multiplayer: Experience vast persistent worlds and game online with friends playing on mobile or desktop.

    All the playable content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition:
    - The original Neverwinter Nights campaign: Find yourself at the center of intrigue, betrayal, and dark magic in Neverwinter Nights. Journey through dangerous cities, monster filled dungeons and deep into uncharted wilderness in search of the cure for a cursed plague ravaging the city of Neverwinter.

    Two expansion packs:
    - Shadows of Undrentide: Another adventure begins in Shadows of Undrentide! Charged by your master to recover four ancient artifacts, travel from the Silver Marches to unravel mysteries of a long-dead magical civilization.
    - Hordes of the Underdark: Continue the adventure started in Shadows of Undrentide and journey into the ever-more bizarre and hostile depths of Undermountain to challenge a gathering evil.    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. Multiplayer.it
    Dec 11, 2019
    80
    Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition returns from the past with improved graphics and lots of content.
  2. PlayStation Universe
    Dec 11, 2019
    80
    Though the dated presentation and omission of some multiplayer features undeniably rankle, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition still manages to acquit itself ably as a landmark RPG that deserves to be absorbed by an entirely new generation of gamers.
  3. Screen Rant
    Jan 7, 2020
    70
    It's a game made for a very specific audience in mind, one which thoroughly knows the rules of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition and doesn't mind the limited graphical capabilities of turn-of-the-century computers. For those fans, or for anyone interested in role-playing PC history, Neverwinter Nights is a no-brainer.
  4. Vandal
    Dec 11, 2019
    65
    Neverwinter Nights is a game that holds up really well, but this port is weaker than it should. It feels like a low-effort adaptation, with way too many technical problems that shouldn’t be present almost 20 years after the original release.
  5. LaPS4
    Feb 14, 2020
    61
    If you didn't get the chance at the time to play Neverwinter Nights, then this is a good chance to enjoy a slightly better version of one of the most ambitious role-playing titles in history. Likewise, this game doesn't get the score it could have deserved, because the development company Beamdog couldn't improve the interface or the graphics, so it's an adaptation that has absolutely nothing to do with remastering.
  6. DarkStation
    Dec 18, 2019
    60
    It’s hard to imagine RPG fans used to God of War or Outer Worlds finding Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition anything but nearly unplayable. Graphics aren’t everything, but dated appearance married to a frustrating UI and even some missing features are asking a lot to be forgiven. Extremely tolerant gamers willing to overlook these flaws and seek the under-the-surface quality will find it, but playing a true remake or graphically made-over game would be a more inviting prospect than the disappointing port that we actually have.
  7. Softpedia
    Dec 13, 2019
    40
    Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition for PlayStation 4 is not just a technical mess, it is an expensive technical mess. The magic of the PC version released in 2012 has vanished completely because Beamdog is trying to pull a cash grab taking advantage of our nostalgia. Instead of delivering the careful remaster of a legend we were promised, the producers are throwing at us a cheap port that will offend the D&D fans. If you feel nostalgic stick with the remastered editions of the 2D games and stay away from this one. We cannot recommend Neverwinter Edition Enhanced Edition for PlayStation 4 not even at a heavily discounted price.

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 7 out of 8
  1. viccard
    Dec 17, 2019
    5
    First of all - critical info that is not always listed for this game. Enhanced editions includes all the content of the Diamond Edition, whichFirst of all - critical info that is not always listed for this game. Enhanced editions includes all the content of the Diamond Edition, which is main campaign, 2 expansions, and 7 or so standalone "modules" which are separate DnD campaigns with their own story/progression/etc.
    All of this is already on the disc and doesn't require downloads.

    Now for those who remember NWN on PC - console version is a much more immersive way to experience the game. What enhanced edition (for consoles) did is gave you direct control of the character with just the right zoom level (think controlling Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn).
    Strategic/zoomed-out view is also available by tapping the touchpad.

    The lighting has been much improved with surfaces looking vibrant/colorful.
    Together with up-close view this gives it such an immersive feel that it's a totally different experience from what I remember of the PC version.

    In terms of performance, I am running this on PS4 Pro, 1080p. Frames are butter-smooth. I can't tell for sure if it's 30 or 60fps (feels like 60), but panning the camera never causes any stutter.

    Update after finishing chapter 1: Encountered 1 crash to home, 2 crashes on save, lost saves. Some feats not selectable due to buggy dialog windows.    … Expand
  2. CriticalGlitch
    Dec 4, 2019
    4
    NWN was a fantastic game for its era, and its story and setting are still extremely enjoyable today. It follows closely to ADnD rulesets,NWN was a fantastic game for its era, and its story and setting are still extremely enjoyable today. It follows closely to ADnD rulesets, takes place in Faerun, and has plenty of memorable characters and a plot brimming with exciting twists and turns. However, the playstation port specifically runs like a fish on sand. Get ready for consistant crashes to home, massive framerate stutters, and NPC behavior bugs. Sometimes panning the camera through a building will cause the software to yeet itself out of running. Sometimes it's opening your inventory. Whatever the trigger, I found that playing. for more than ten minutes at a time tends to elicit a crash. This still does not stop me from trying to play, as the game is wonderful in creative content and I'm determined to enjoy it, but the technical issues sharply effect my ability to enjoy the software.

    Also, no aurora engine toolkit on console, and that's heartbreaking.    … Expand
  4. OldAndCynical
    Oct 30, 2020
    3
    I loved NWN back in the day, and played it just as much as Baldur's Gate 1&2, sinking hundreds of hours into it. So, when seeing the PS4I loved NWN back in the day, and played it just as much as Baldur's Gate 1&2, sinking hundreds of hours into it. So, when seeing the PS4 edition in a bargain bin, I dived in pronto!
    I should not have. For when starting the game (after 10GB patch download) it was not nostalgia that hit me, but rather disbelief and shock.
    Shock at how bad a job they had done translating this masterpiece for PS4. I could not believe it, but the game actually looks worse on my PS4Pro than it ever did on my old gaming PC (Win98, Pentium II, Voodoo 3). And it runs worse too! What on Earth went wrong?!? How, what, why???
    Well, I did give it a solid try, and tried to play thru it. But it was just too painful. So, into the trash it goes.
    Next time I feel like going back to the good old days, I'll just download the game off Steam for this laptop. Which is what I should've done in the first place. And which is what I suggest you do. For, even for nostalgia trip, the PS4 edition is not worth it. Not even if you can get it cheap. It is an insult to the fans of the game.    … Expand
  5. ZXSth
    Mar 4, 2023
    2
    An utterly atrocious port of a game that desperately needed far more added to it than what is here. In fact, porting this game to next-genAn utterly atrocious port of a game that desperately needed far more added to it than what is here. In fact, porting this game to next-gen systems left the end result with far more issues than its original iteration might have when compared to a modern game from 2020.

    I would be hard-pressed to call this a finished product. Do not spend money on this.    … Expand
  6. soooB
    Dec 12, 2019
    2
    I'm not sure what has been enhanced, unless it's the constant graphical glitches or the sense of how badly this game has aged.
  7. forest_hunter
    Dec 7, 2019
    0
    4players.de rated this game with 39% what is pretty appropriate. I do not know why so many people give this technical catastrophe such good4players.de rated this game with 39% what is pretty appropriate. I do not know why so many people give this technical catastrophe such good ratings, it was a good game back in time, but the port is just awful and a rip off, they really want 50 EUR for a game that is more than 10 years old.

    Look for example at Dark Souls remastered (not that old), they ported the game for all systems and added online functions for the new systems and started with 29,99 EUR as release price.    … Expand
  8. DARKOBLIVIONGOD
    Apr 21, 2020
    0
    Very good game with tons of content sadly it was half baked and the other half a cash grab on the supposive enhanced edition otherwise a veryVery good game with tons of content sadly it was half baked and the other half a cash grab on the supposive enhanced edition otherwise a very good game when on a very good sale ofc.… Expand

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