Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, Neverwinter Nights 2 will feature more than 10 new companions that players will encounter and join in their ongoing adventures in the lands of Faerun. Players will be able to select up to three additional companions to adventure with at any particular time. Along with the larger party size comes increased companion complexity in all aspects from enhanced usefulness and combat effectiveness to dramatically improved personalities, dialogue and story background.[advert]
In addition, companions in Neverwinter Nights 2 take full advantage of the game’s complex influence system, which dramatically alters the player characters’ alignment and the world’s reaction to the player based upon the actions and choices made during the course of game play. Just as the world will change based upon the player’s actions, companions will also react directly to the player characters’ alignment and the decisions they make. The more a companion trusts the player the more likely it will share its history, fears and even secrets. Likewise, the more divergent the player’s point of view is from a companion, the greater the potential for loss of influence and, in some cases, may even lead to the companion abandoning the player during gameplay.
Bards sing tales of heroes from ages past, but never have the Forgotten Realms so desperately needed a champion. Years have passed since the war between Luskan and Neverwinter, almost enough time for the wounds of war to heal. But the brief peace the Realms have known may be at an end. Tension growing between the mighty city-states means the Sword Coast again teeters on the edge of open war. Unnoticed, a greater danger stalks the City of Skilled Hands. Unbeknownst to the denizens of the North, deep in the Mere of Dead Men, dark forces from across the Realms have been rallied under the banner of a legendary evil. If left unchallenged, all of the North is doomed to fall under its power.
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