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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3156795" data-attributes="member: 20741">I thought the 6 out of 10 for graphics from Gamespot was not deserved - though the reviewer was otherwise kind and was making a point about too high sys requirements and lack of HDR and AA - so he had a point.And I'm not a fan of the art direction in some of the environmental textures either. The animations (particularly the run anim) could use some work. There are technical issues here though in terms of attack per round which really cause a lot of problems with the Aurora game engine - so there are some solid technical reasons behind this. Still - I'm not a fan.(If I was in charge of 4E, I would get rid of increasing # of attacks per round. It is the single largest non-computer game friendly rule D&D has. We could do with another approach.) Anyways, the 1Up.com review was way out of line. I know some of the guys at Obsidian and have some sense of how hard they crunched on this and how difficult it is to get rules variations past WotC. Given the bias of the reviewer, I started <a href="http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=30526" target="_blank">a rather pointed thread </a> and took aim squarley at the reviewer and at the magazine on the Quarterthree forums last night (a site frequented mainly by game devs and gaming journalists).In response to that thread and the sentiments expressed therein - 1Up and Games for Windows (nee Computer Gaming World) actually RETRACTED the review today and apologized for it.  Here's Jeff Green's apology:Game Daily, on the other hand, gave it <a href="http://pc.gamedaily.com/game/review/?gameid=3511" target="_blank">five out of five stars</a>.I have yet to complete the game on the machine I want to play it on and need some time to come to conclusions about NWN2.I will say this though: there are fewer problems with this sequel than there were with NWN1 out of the gate. Overall, the game plays much better on lower spec hardware than i thought it would as long as you turn down the eye candy. I'm getting 35fps on my XP 2700+ and Ati x1600 Pro (256) at 1184 x 900 or so res (scaled back widescreen).  That's a pretty damn fine performance for rather iffy hardware - so I'm happy about that.I'll spark it up on my new machine on Monday and see how it purrs.</blockquote>

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