New Mask of the Betrayer Screens, Video and Previews at NWVault

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We have received word from Maximus of Neverwinter Vault that they have posted a couple of new screenshots of the upcoming Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion Mask of the Betrayer, as well as a video showing the epic feats you will see in the game. Also, previews based on Maximus' visit to Obsidian await you there. Here's an excerpt from the one of Mask of the Betrayer:

Then at 11am, Kevin Saunders took over with Feargus on the side, as they gave an overview of the NWN2 : Mask of the Betrayer expansion. Kevin spoke about his concerns when they were first starting on the expansion, that they might have trouble putting together a story that would have more than ten to fifteen hours of gameplay. In the end, the expansion will offer between 25 to 30 hours of gameplay and Feargus pointed out that while it's an expansion, the level of story and amount of content delivered would easily qualify for a full game. From what I've seen, it definitely looks that way.

Speaking of looks, the game looks great. The new content and improvements that have been made to the engine really stand out. These improvements along with many optimizations, will also show up for everyone in patch 1.10 which is the next patch after 1.07. Yes, they are skipping straight to 1.10.

And also a bit about Rogue Dao's Planescape Trilogy:

This community mod will span three modules set in the Planescape setting. For those of you not familiar, there are numerous planes of existence, some of which are very bizarre with a steampunk feel to them, others where Gods and Devils reside in the depths of hell, and not to mention the prime material plane where most of the D&D settings take place. Some of these planes have their own slang, so much of it that it's practically a different language with words like Berk, Barmy, Cutter, Cager and much more. What's cool is that the team have built a word dictionary of all the Planescape terms right into the game, so you can popup an interface window and find out what a word means.

As I said in one of the previous posts, it looks like Rogue Dao Studios' modules based in the Planescape setting seem to be regarded at least on par with the official expansion in the community. The order of appearance of the previews at Vault reinforces my impression. What do you think?

By the way, either they made the Mask of the Betrayer sreenshots on a superb gaming rig or the game just looks great. I don't think the original game looked so nice on my computer when I played it. Perhaps the difference between my 7600 GT and their 8800 GTX or four can explain the difference, but otherwise it looks like Obsidian has lived up to the promise of nicer graphics.

 

You can what you want about nwn2. If it is good, bad or mediocore. But, and not only me I, bought this game for the expansions and the mods. And it looks like Obsidian delivers. Mask just made it back on my to buy list.