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Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us Scroll down for our Kid Factor. The game that has everything, suddenly gets more! Neverwinter Nights offers Dungeons & Dragons on your computer. Letting you play an epic adventure alone, with friends, or craft your own modules and adventures to share. You can become the Dungeon Master and guide adventurers through your own tales, or take advantage of the many adventures created by other players available for download. It offers unlimited replayabilty, so why do you need an expansion pack?  Shadows of Undrentide answers that question simply: It seems that professionals make better adventures than (most) fan mod-makers (surprise!). Sure, you can download lots of free adventures, but most will lack the depth of this one and folks, this one is even better than the original campaign that shipped with Neverwinter Nights. Undrentide is developed by Floodgate Studios (with extensive cooperation and help from the folks at Bioware) and offers a story that, at first, seems clich￩d. Sing along if you've heard this one before: You must build a new character (or use one provided), portray the pupil of a legendary hero, then, when the hero gets attacked and is poisoned (and artifacts (of great power) are stolen) you have to volunteer (after choosing which fellow student to accompany you) on a quest to find the antidote, recover the stolen treasures, and find out who is behind it all. Whew!  Fortunately your quest takes you through new lands, including a vast desert, and, along the way, thereﾒs a lot of side quests you can undertake. The writing is sharp, the quests are interesting, and new monsters like Meduseas, basilisks, and formidable ant-centaurs called Formians, block your path. New spells are added, new character types like the Shadowdancer and Harper are available, and new skills round out the mix. 3rd Edition D&D fans may still quibble about how the rules are interpreted but mod-makers and DMs will delight at the new tilesets, graphics, and easier-to-use creation wizards Floodgate has added. Everything used to make this new adventure is available for you to use to make your own. The game uses the same sound files as Neverwinter, and the graphics arenﾒt really improved, but thatﾒs ok, because they still look pretty good. If youﾒre a fan of Neverwinter Nights looking for more, Undrentide offers just that. More. Age: 13+ ESRB: T- Teen Producer Atari Developer Floodgate Studios Read Andrew S. Bub's review at Games Domain! 
The kiddies will probably enjoy the adventure, especially if you read and play along. A LAN is ideal for this. Or, you can become the Dungeon Master and guide your kids friends through an adventure you and your own kids have created. Neverwinter Nights is very much the kind of game that gives back what you put into it 100-fold.
Kid Factor by Robert M. Andrews
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