Played for a couple of hours, got to the fort and picked up the tiefling chick with the incredibly annoying voice, which is where the game crashed. Actually it bluescreened my computer, a first for me. First impressions are that it plays like a pig, really slow, stuttery, just not optimized. The engine is total crap, imagine the exact opposite of guild wars and you’re in the ballpark. And it has the exact same music and sound effects as the first game. Not like Oblivion’s reimagining of the morrowind theme, or how ultimas always manage to get the stones theme in there somewhere, I mean it’s the exact same music and sound, bit by bit. Voice acting is flat out awful. Gameplay is, well, NWN with a controllable party. No real changes there. Too early for real impressions, but so far I’m not in an oblivion-ish daze of joy. Of course it’s a real CRPG, so I’m a happy man anyway, but it’s not a transcendent gaming experience by any means.
No sweet dialogue like all of PS:T or Kreia from KOTOR2 yet, either.