Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a third-person role-playing video game and is set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with the game mechanics based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition rules. The game engine was designed around an internet-based model for running a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which would allow end users to host game servers. The intent was to create a potentially infinite massively multiplayer game framework. This game was named after the original Neverwinter Nights online game; the first ever graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which operated from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.
The story begins with the player character (PC), under the guidance of Lady Aribeth, sent to recover four creatures (dryad, intellect devourer, yuan-ti, and cockatrice), known collectively as the Waterdhavian creatures, needed to make a cure for the Wailing Death, a plague that is sweeping the city of Neverwinter and forcing a quarantine. With the help of Fenthick Moss, Aribeth’s love interest, and Desther, Fenthick’s friend, the PC is able to retrieve the creatures. As they collect the creatures, they are attacked by mysterious assassins from a cult that is behind the spreading of the plague.
As the cure is being made, Castle Neverwinter is attacked by the minions of Desther, who betrays the heroes. Desther takes the completed cure and escapes the castle, with the PC and Fenthick in pursuit. When they catch up to Desther, he surrenders after a short battle. Desther is sentenced to burn at the stake, and Fenthick, despite being unaware of Desther’s true intentions, is sentenced to hang. The PC meets up with Aribeth, and they begin searching for the cult responsible for the plague and the attack on Neverwinter. With the help of Aarin Gend, Neverwinter's spymaster, the PC retrieves the diaries of dead cultists and letters from a person named Maugrim, which convince Aribeth that the cult's headquarters are in Luskan. Aribeth goes ahead to Luskan, and the PC follows after speaking once more to Gend.
After arriving in Luskan, the PC hears rumors that Aribeth is joining with the cultists. These fears are confirmed when she is found meeting with Maugrim and Morag, Queen of the Old Ones. They seek a group of magical relics called the Words of Power. The PC retrieves all of the Words of Power except for one held by the cult. The PC discovers that the Words open a portal to a pocket world inside the Source Stone, where Morag and the other Old Ones are. The PC confronts Aribeth, and depending on how the meeting is handled, she either surrenders to the PC or they are forced to kill her. The PC battles Maugrim for the final Word, then uses the Words to enter the Source Stone and battle with Morag. After Morag's death, the PC escapes the Stone as the world inside it implodes.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Pentium® II 450 MHz or AMD K6 450 MHz | Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon MP |
| VRAM | 64 MB | 64 MB |
| RAM | 96 MB (Windows 98 / ME), 128 MB (Windows 2000 / XP) | 256 MB |
| OS | Windows 98/ME/2000SP2/XP | Windows 98/ME/2000SP2/XP |
| Graphics Card | 16 MB TNT2-class OpenGL 1.2 compliant video card | nVidia GeForce 6100 / AMD Radeon 7000 64mb |
| Direct X | DirectX® version 8.1 | DX 8 |
| SOUND CARD | DirectX® certified sound card | DirectX® certified sound card |
| HDD Space | 1.2 GB | 2 GB |
| CD-ROM | 8X CD ROM or CD/DVD ROM Drive | 8X CD ROM or CD/DVD ROM Drive |
| Game Analysis | Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a computer game set in a huge medieval fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons. This role-playing game (RPG) puts you at the center of an epic tale of faith, war, and betrayal.rnrnAs a player, you are able to choose what skills and abilities you will develop as you voyage though the complex and dangerous fantasy world of Forgotten Realms. Be a deadly and dangerous Rogue moving through the shadows using stealth and secrecy, be a scholarly Wizard and wield powerful magic against your enemies, be a hulking Barbarian whose lust for battle is matched only by his terrible rage, be an armor-clad Paladin who protects the innocent and vanquishes his foes, be a crusading Cleric who heals the sick and defends the helpless… be all this and more. | |
| High FPS | 0 FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | Macintosh The current Macintosh system requirements for Neverwinter Nights are as follows: Processor: 450MHz G4 or faster processor Operating System: Mac OS X version 10.2.6 or higher RAM: 256 MB Hard Disk Installation: 2.1 GB Video Card: 32 MB or higher video card Multiplayer:TCP/IP via LAN or Internet | |
| Optimization Score | 7.5 | |
