Neverwinter Nights Preview

Inside Mac Games has posted up a preview of BioWare’s upcoming Neverwinter Nights, giving some new insight on several facets of the game, including the single-player storyline:

The official Neverwinter Nights story begins in the city of Neverwinter, at the outset of a nasty plague. Neverwinter sends out a plea for help to the allied city of Waterdeep; in response, the powerful wizard Khelben Blackstaff Arunsun gathers a group of magical Waterdhavian creatures and sends them in secrecy to Neverwinter to cure the plague. Unfortunately, the caravan is attacked along the way and the rare creatures are released into the wild. A group of adventurers from Neverwinter, led by the young paladin Aribeth de Tylmarande, sets out to find the Waterdhavian creatures, cure the plague, and track down the unknown betrayers.

The main story spans across four chapters (consisting of about 28 modules) and an estimated 60 hours of gameplay. Neverwinter Nights will also ship with several other modules outside of the main campaign, which provide plenty of other challenges for multiplayer games.