Hordes of the Underdark Review at Game Banshee

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

Game Banshee have reviewed the Hordes of the Underdark expansion, giving it a nice 8.8 of 10. Here's a snip:

In almost every aspect, Hordes of the Underdark brings a change to the Neverwinter Nights experience that’s expected, then goes one step further. First of all, setting the story in the Underdark obviously meant new tilesets for the Drow, Illithid, and Beholder communities and new monster models for their denizens. You could already give your character the skin and hair color of a Drow, but the designers went ahead and upgraded the clothing models so they could preserve the Drow leather fetish, even going so far as to include new texture packs for robes. The tilesets, models, and robes all look great and you can use them all in your mods.

In addition to cosmetics, we knew that gameplay would be enhanced by the ability to play as new prestige classes. After the relatively tame prestige classes in Shadows, I was astounded by the imagination put into the prestige class offerings in Hordes. Instead of getting more bonuses in the feats already present, several of the new classes come with completely new abilities.

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