Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter

[TheRock]

Neverwinter is a free-to-play fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game in development by Cryptic Studios. The game will be published by Perfect World Entertainment. The game is set within the popular Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons and uses mechanics based on a modified version of fourth-edition Dungeons and Dragons rules.

Gameplay

As with most MMORPGs, gameplay revolves around playing a character created by the player in an open world. Neverwinter has a strong storyline. In order to advance that storyline, most of the action takes place in instanced areas which can be open outdoor locations, dungeons, caves, sewers, crypts etc. There are large open world locations where players compete with each other for contests and spawning monsters. However, Protector's Enclave - the starting area where most of the earlier events take place - is a safe area without any enemies.
The combat in the game is more action-oriented than in most MMORPGs and has been described as being very similar to a third-person shooter. Instead of selecting targets by using keys like Tab or clicking on them, players rotate their view so that a targeting reticle is over their intended target. Use of the action bar is atypical of most MMORPGs in that the first two abilities are bound to the mouse buttons rather than to numeric keys, and others are linked to "Q", "E", and Shift by default.
Shards (Servers)
Neverwinter will have three shards at launch. Many MMOs have the concept of a shard, and there are several different terms in use for the same concept including Server, World and Realm. The shards will be named: • Beholder • Dragon • Mindflayer
Cryptic has decided to launch Neverwinter with three shards, to reduce the risk of players having a negative experience due to servers overloading. Cryptic's goal is to continue to optimize our software and hardware so that they can merge the three shards into a single seamless game world soon after launch, and they have built their multi-shard technology with this in mind. For example, they are requiring guild names to be unique across all shards, so that when they do merge the shards nobody will have to change their guild name due to a naming conflict.
Naming
Much like other Cryptic games, all of the characters’ names are unique to each accounts @handle (account name), so there is no need to reserve character names.


Setting
The game takes place along the Sword Coast region of Faerûn‎, a continent within the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. 29th Tarsakh, 1385 DR Spellplague struck the Realms but Neverwinter escaped the devastation unharmed. However, in 1451 DR mount Hotenow - a volcano near Neverwinter erupted and the eruption destroyed the city. Eventually the city was destroyed by an alliance of Thay and Ashmadai worshipers. In 1467 DR, Lord Neverember arrived with Mintarn Mercenaries and took control of Protector's Enclave. Lord Neverember started reconstruction of Protector's Enclave and called upon the people to rebuild the city to its former glory. Now, with Lord Neverember who has declared himself the Lord Protector of Neverwinter, there are many active threats in the region. The city is the center of conflict between Thay and Netherese with Ashmadai infiltrating the influential citizens of New Neverwinter. Plaguechanged creatures are another threat faced by all the human settlements after Spellplague. And the reason of eruption of Mount Hotenow is still not clear, for it may erupt again.

Media

General video:
http://youtu.be/D_Uzka-2Mz8
A boss fight:
http://youtu.be/ipawFO_ZRpM

Would of post a video of it's graphics, however that's something you must really try your self! I was actually amazed by the graphics, and the overall gameplay. So, I'm (MrEnergia@mrenergia) ahah, Two days ago I installed the game after having it recommended by a close friend and old WoW-Freak.. I instally played 5-6 hours non-stop, getting to 14 Level.. played another round earlier today made it to 17 Level.. got me a companion, and soon a mount... but oh well, whoever liked World of Warcraft, will actually love this game.. and most of all; it's F2P! ..

Official site - Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter

[Casper]

I'm playing Neverwinter since 1-2 months. I'm suprised how good the game is for a f2p type. The game has great features and the graphics are truly awesome.
And propably the most important point: You dont have to give out a single cent to 'win' in the game.

Generally a good game

[Xaera]

Whole game about dungeons you cannot fight with people on area's like out side of town or village,its bad and also its f2p which is great,mmorpg style game but i got better graphics and gameplay same as Neverwinter. my mark for that game 5/10

[TheRock]

Whole game about dungeons you cannot fight with people on area's like out side of town or village,its bad and also its f2p which is great,mmorpg style game but i got better graphics and gameplay same as Neverwinter. my mark for that game 5/10

Lol, completely false! You can go to Arena or que for PVP Dominion where as you can go fully PVP 5 versus 5 Bad why?