Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

I love Bioware. This game made me very happy. I beat it yesterday and anyone who likes D&D style RPG's should check this out.

Minor spoiler but you learn this in the first 10 seconds - you are cursed with the spirit eater disease. It will devour you from the inside and kill you unless you feed it with spirits. In the game you can choose to be good and supress your desire or be evil and feed at will, letting your craving run wild.

You start the game as level 16 and can reach a max of 30. Upon reaching level 21 you have access to "Epic" feats and abilities. This game really lets you become a complete bad ass.

The characters were all very interesting and there are two optional characters you can get to join your party. One of them is best suited for good characters and called "Okku". He is a giant bear god and he hits like a ton of bricks in addition to having a lot of hit points. The other character you can get is called "One of Many". He is a collection of damned souls and the One is the dominant soul that speaks for the many. One of Many is an undead abomination and likes to be evil. The cool thing about him is that you can change what person you want to be the One at will. He can be either a thief, a barbarian, or a warlock. As you gain influence with One of Many he gives you a special power also that makes you even more evil and intimidating.

I like One of Many because his rogue is better than Kaji and you can make him a barbarian if you need him to get on the front lines, plus his warlock is ridiculously powerful. He was doing 80 damage to large groups of people with his warlock's eldric blast ability, which can be cast an infinite number of times a day. Almost all of the people who wrote walkthroughs mistakenly said One of Many is weak, but only his rogue is a weak fighter and I think they didn't stick with him till he got his barbarian or warlock ability. Some said it is hard to gain influence with him but it was easy for me - I just devoured everyone I could and was an evil bastard. What really ticked me off the most was that a gamespot reviewer said that you couldn't heal One of Many. HE IS UNDEAD. Any D&D person knows that heal spells hurt Undead and that harm spells heal them. If you cast Harm on him he is healed 150 points. He has regeneration anyway, so it isn't hardly necessary. Okku doesn't have regeneration but is a better tank. It just made me angry that people were bashing my favorite character unfairly.

Excellent story, cool spells like "Vampiric Feast", and interesting new classes and feats make this game worth getting. The ending also changes a lot depending on who you have in your party, how much they like you based on how you've treated them over the course of the game, and what choice you made once defeating the final boss.