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Like the superb Dragon Age Origins which would come after it, the combat in Neverwinter Nights is a deft blend of turn-based, action pausing tactics and real-time action. The reason why such visual degradation was not seen in the previous PS4 conversions of Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment is because their pre-rendered backgrounds were timeless to an extent (and already seen in current-gen titles such as Pillars of Eternity and Tides of Numenera), whereas Neverwinter Night’s visuals are entirely dependent upon the real-time visual capabilities of the time (hence the earlier PS2 reference). Likewise, when you’re in the game, Neverwinter Nights hardly inspires from a visual standpoint as low detail character models and environments conspire with a perspective that allows you to see through and over the environment in a way that, well, you just don’t get these days because normally developers put walls and ceilings in place to prevent you from seeing ‘into’ the world, so to speak.

The problem however, is that no other aspect of Neverwinter Night’s visual presentation has received improvements of this sort of caliber, meaning that rather then enhancing the game, they merely serve to emphasize just how dated it really is.įrom the start you know you’re in for a ride when the pre-rendered introduction kicks in, looking blocky, flaw ridden and stuttery in a way that simply does not look good on a 55 inch 4K television. As alluded to at the top of this review, Neverwinter Nights runs at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. Though alterations have been made to the UI and control system on account of Neverwinter Nights new PS4 digs (something we’ll get to later), the bounty of the technical improvements that this enhanced version of the game enjoys appear to be limited to screen resolution and framerate. A higher resolution and smoother framerate aren’t enough to keep Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from looking dated. As such, it’s perhaps cynically easy to date Neverwinter Nights from a technical standpoint.

Neverwinter Nights originally saw release on PC all the way back in 2002 a time when Sony’s PlayStation 2 console had been on the market for just over a year and a half, and was certainly a fair ways from realizing its potential. Ok, so we’ll start with the ugliness, but first – some context. Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition PS4 Review An Almost Uniquely Ugly Looking Game That Conceals A Massive, Genre Defining RPG

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