Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition

The Enhanced Edition isn’t a major overhaul, some original issues like the clunky UI and awkward camera still persist. In return, you get improved visuals and high-resolution textures. But even with its flaws, Neverwinter Nights 2 and its Mask of the Betrayer expansion continue to offer exceptional storytelling that holds up remarkably well. Play it for the nostalgia.

Ultimately, if you can forgive the crusty aesthetics (and I would encourage you to do so - even if there is a lot of forgiveness to be dished out), Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition will still absolutely decimate your social calendar as it thoroughly draws you into its Dungeons & Dragons setting. It's just a shame that some more care and attention wasn't lavished to give this re-release the proper love it deserves.

Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition doesn't roll very high on effort for its "enhancements," but it does bring a classic adventure back for those with the taste to pursue it.

There's a strange feeling of, "wait, was it like that before?" with Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition. Accept that this is an earlier game and take it on its own terms, and you'll at least come away with a better understanding of how the genre evolved.

Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is a minimal preservation effort. At least it's not abandonware anymore. Higher resolutions and controller support make it playable on modern PCs and now consoles, but old bugs and dated assets remain. It’s still a richly layered D&D adventure — with all the charm of its 2006 origins.

Aspyr breaths new life into Neverwinter Nights 2 with the release of their Enhanced Edition, bringing the CRPG classic to consoles for the first time and reviving its multiplayer, with the rest of the game feeling like a missed opportunity.

Neverwinter Nights 2 had a mixed reception. Some people believe that Bioware will always be king when it comes to the Dungeons & Dragons licensing of CRPG games, and others believe that Obsidian takes what Bioware does and makes it better. These are arguments of the past, however, as Bioware lost the Dungeons and Dragons license midway through the aughts and has since had breakaway hits and failures with their own IPs. So we leave it up to companies like Aspyr to take these great games and ma...

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition arrives for consoles. While the campaign is overall enjoyable, the the scarce significant new features and the constant bugs make this endeavour even tougher than it should be.