Neverwinter Nights Mobile at GameSpot and IGN

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GameSpot has posted a long preview of the mobile phone Neverwinter Nights game. Here's a snip:

Neverwinter Nights: Mobile takes the whole Dungeons & Dragons business pretty seriously, and as with any half-decent role-playing game based on the seminal pen-and-paper fantasy game, your first step to becoming a powerful and renowned adventurer is to create a character. There's the option to play with a "pre-rolled" character, but that would rob you of the opportunity to customize your mobile digital avatar. When you roll your own, you have to choose the race and character class for your character--the former of which has a rather indistinct impact on the gameplay, and the latter of which basically determines what types of weapons you'll be able to use. From here you will "roll" for your basic character abilities, though interestingly, you can re-roll an infinite number of times until you're satisfied with your starting stats. Finally, you'll get a pool of points that you can distribute among 10 different skills. It can be difficult to determine which skills are best for your character class right off the bat, so the game offers to automatically distribute your skill points for you, and generally speaking, it does a good job of putting the points where you'll need them down the road. Once all the hard stat stuff has been settled, you get to choose from a selection of really tiny painted portraits for your character--all of which are pulled from the PC version of Neverwinter Nights--give your would-be adventurer a name, and begin on your quest.

Read the whole thing at GameSpot.

And there's also one at IGN. Here's a bit of what they say:

The Action Bar contains a variety of commands, such as Target, Inventory, Meele, Ranged, Cast, and Options. The goal is that you can play Neverwinter Nights with only one hand. And it actually works. The combat system is simple. Choose either Ranged or Melee from the Action Bar, then target your enemy. If there is only one enemy, that enemy is automatically targeted and you will fight until the monster has been slain -- or you run from the area like a coward.

Most action takes place simply by directing your character into people or objects. NPC conversations happen by walking right up to characters. Chests and doors are opened by walking into them. If they are locked, you will be prompted to use the key (if you have it, or attempt to pick the lock. If you are unsuccessful, you may jam the lock, making it harder to open later.

Read the rest at IGN.

 

Neverwinter Nights for your mobile phone!? Wow. Can anyone who has played it give us some feedback? This is the first I have heard of it.