by Alexander Wall on Nov 18, 2015
I've been anticipating this upcoming expansion to Neverwinter, probably more than I have for any MMO in quite some time. It's not that Neverwinter is dramatically more sophisticated or mechanically intriguing than other MMORPGs on the market. It's not.
It just happens to take place in my all-time favorite fantasy setting: the Forgotten Realms.
If you don't know what I'm talking about check out the Forgotten Realms V1 article that I wrote a couple weeks ago here. It's mostly a story of how I first encountered the realm of Faerun and the world of Toril in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, but its more than worth the read whether you are familiar or not.
I have to admit that the underworld in this particular setting is one of the more interesting concepts in all of fantasy, and this latest expansion with Neverwinter puts it at the forefront. It also features battles right out of author R.A. Salvatore's novels and even gives you the opportunity to fight alongside Drizzt Do'Urden, and a few of his companions.
At the very least you can enjoy seeing his many clones be shamed in their feeble inferiority (you know, all the Drizts and Drizzzts out there who are too enthralled with that hero's legacy to begin crafting one of their own).
All teasing aside, the expansion has added several new things to the game, all of which I've conveniently listed beneath a screenshot of the new region this expansion features.
Fans of R.A. Salvatore can rejoice to know that he was intrumental in writing the questline for this new expansion.
Neverwinter Underdark serves as a prologue for online gamers to the much more wide-scope Rage of Demons storyline that Wizards of the Coast is running for their table-top products.
This expansion is still slated to hit the XBox One in early 2016.