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This is a very worthy role playing game on OS X, worthy enough for me to go buy an Intel-based Mac in order to play it. No regrets, it's been months and months of fun to play. Performance is acceptable on a fair-to-middlin' MacBook Pro. The overall story is well structured, and the non-player characters have personalities and their own quests which you help them with. Save often, because the game may sporadically crash (once every ~8 hours of play). There is also a problem where your world goes spinning endlessly if you had the mouse on the edge of the screen when a dialog starts with another character (saving, quitting and restarting stops the spinning).
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There are no system requirements on this listing. I REALLY wanted to play this game but can't! Very frustrating!
The min requirements are:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
* Operating System: 10.4.11, 10.5.1
* CPU Processor: Intel Chipset
* CPU Speed: 2.0 GHz
* Memory: 1 GB RAM
* Hard Disk Space: 6.5 GB
* Video Card (ATI): Radeon X1600
* Video Card (NVidia): Geforce 7600
* Video Memory (VRam): 128 MB
* Media Required: DVD-ROM
So if you have one of the original 1.83GHz macs from 2006 it will not work right!!!
The game bogs and the sound disappears after about 30 min of play. quit and relaunch fixes the problem but that is no way to play a game! Total bummer!
I had to give the review stars because amazon requires it. Mine should be zero because I haven't played it correctly with the min requirements yet
I only chose 3 as middle ground hoping it will not skew the star rating to much.
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A horrid interface will have you frustrated to no end. I've had this game for 2 weeks and have reached a conclusion that it is unplayable with the player feedback interface. If you enjoyed the early Bioware games (Baldur's Gate, etc.), this game is not a successor but an unfulfilled and unfinished exploitation of a great series.
The 3d universe attempted in the game sounds great except it does nothing to enhance the game and is terribly realized. The camera controls are awful and is not a good match for a game with multiple simultaneous characters. Forget about the strategy and tactics with multiple characters found in earlier Environmental obstructions from walls and dizzying multiple viewpoints make this game a long, frustrating and stupid experience.
Demand a better experience for your money and buy a better game.
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NeverWinter Nights 2 (Macintosh) ought to be a great game. It has all the elements--great graphics, an interesting story line, characters that actually change their alignments and personalities as the game progresses, fun challenges to overcome, etc. When it works, I love playing NWN2; unfortunately, it has so many computer glitches that--at times--I want to throw the darned disc away! For example, it has a MAJOR glitch concerning non-player characters (NPCs) that unexpectedly disappear from the game. Their player slot is replaced by an icon that looks like a shadow person walking into a cobwebbed cavern (I suppose "never to be heard from again"?). Once the icon appears in the character's slot you cannot access that character from that point forward.
This makes for a frustrating game because NPCs are essential to the unfolding of the story. The game is set up for you to complete "quests;" but if a character is missing that is integral to the completion of the quest, you are figuratively up the creek without a paddle! The only way around this dilemma is to go back to the last saved point in the game where the character exists and begin again from there. However, you must learn WHAT you did to create the glitch! Rather than spending hours blindly trying to figure out how to overcome the computer glitch, I suggest that you should sign on to the NWN2 quorum on the internet. There you can find all of the answers to the "known" problems.
Well, that's about it. In summary, it's a great game when it works but beware the unforeseen obstacles!
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If you're a Mac user looking for a good D&D style game there's not a lot of choices. Don't let that get you to buy this game... it's still not worth it. Sign up for Warcraft instead, after playing Warcraft on the Mac or Oblivion on PS3 you won't be able to stand the outdated graphics engine and user interface, and the buggy camera control for even a short period. This game does give you more turn by turn control than Warcraft does if you enjoy spending 5 minutes controlling 5 seconds of game time play. But if you want to pick up a game and immerse yourself in on D&D style world this IS NOT the game for it, the clunky UI and controls will be constant reminders of the real world and endlessly frustrating. Buy a used copy of Oblivion if you own a PS3, or pay more for a far better game on the Mac and go with Warcraft.
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