Most importantly for the rules lawyers in the audience, there are a load of new classes, prestige classes and Dungeons & Dragons gubbins, which both integrate with the previous game (i.e. What do Dark-elves say when you beat them up? DrOW. The game's also improved in both interface and graphics speed. This means you can just jump straight in with no NWN2 experience, but.well, more on that later. The centrepiece is the new campaign, where you can import your surviving character from the previous game, make a new level-18 one, or grab a pre-generated alternative. (Did you like that segue from 'Neverwinter Nights 2' and 'Mask of the Betrayer' to the clunkily acronymatic 'NWN2' and 'MoTB', by the way? That's how we're going to roll from here on in.)Īs far as expansion packs go, MoTB is a hefty one. Oddly, some of the things which NWN2 got right are where MoTB goes a little awry. A lot of things which Neverwinter Nights 2 got wrong, Mask of the Betrayer nails precisely. Starting again also offers us a chance to compare the two directly, and, despite the fact the expansion pack picks up directly from the end of NWN2, they're very different beasts. It's a big fantasy PC videogame quest like Grandma used to make.Īssuming your Grandma worked at Black Isle, obviously. I have to give Mask of the Betrayer this: its qualities were enough to make me decide to restart the original Neverwinter Nights 2, so I could go all the way through the game and into the expansion pack in an enormous fantasy quest.

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