You can use it for infinite recalls to the central point of whatever chapter you're in, and you can also use it to create "jump points" from one area to another by invoking a gem known as a Rogue Stone. In HotU, this device is knows as the Relic of the Reaper. As is typical for an NWN title, there is a recall/ teleport device that you start out with. The game is controlled in largely the same way as in previous NWN titles, including the additions made to henchmen control that were introduced in SoU. Finally, you end up in Cania, the Eighth Hell of Baator, with more quests and an area nearly as large as the Underdark, and then finally you get back to Waterdeep to face the final boss. The Underdark is huge, and you must traverse every part of it to destroy the aforementioned matriarch's allies and find allies of your own to fight her. After cleaning out Undermountain, you find yourself in the Underdark city of Lith Myathar, in the camp of a powerful seer, who needs your help to defeat a drow matriarch and her summoned arch-devil. The only way you can do that is to venture into Undermountain itself, and possibly even the dreaded Underdark, an entire subterrainian realm located beneath Undermountain - home to the evil drow and numerous other even nastier creatures. Your job is to put a stop to the drow insurgence. It seems that Waterdeep has recently been the target of a number of seemingly random attacks on its citizens and structures by drow elves, who have been coming up out of Undermountain, the legendary dungeon created by the archmage Halaster, which has lain underneath Waterdeep since time immemorial. (You can find all of them in the Downloads section of the NWN website.)Īs the game begins, you learn that your character has answered a summons for heroes put forth by the government of the city of Waterdeep. In fact, there are 11 total user-created modules that BioWare approved as official canon for the time between the official expansion packs, though Shadohaunt is regarded by many as the best of the bunch. A user-created module called Shadohaunt was released (and approved by BioWare) to bridge the gap in between the two storylines. In the intervening years between the end of SoU and the beginning of HotU, your fame has slackened a bit after the story fades from the public's collective consciousness. You actually start out the game with a copy of Deekin's book in your inventory. In the meantime, the kobold bard Deekin Scalesinger has had his epic about your travels published, which lends a bit of name recognition directed at you by various NPCs. Like the first expansion pack, Shadows of Undrentide, this one does not pick up where the original NWN campaign left off instead it continues the story of SoU, albeit an indeterminate number of years afterwards.
NEVERWINTER NIGHTS HORDES UNDERDARK REVIEW PC
Hordes of the Underdark is the second expansion pack for the PC game Neverwinter Nights, which was released in mid-2002. Platform: PC ( Linux/ Microsoft Windows) (BioWare Aurora Engine 1.59, pre-patch)ĮSRB Rating: T (teen) for blood and violence Title: Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark