Neverwinter Nights is thought of as a role-playing game, but even though you do role-play you will spend the majority of the time hacking and slashing monsters. Neverwinter Nights may not be an RPG to the same extent as Final Fantasy or Dark Cloud, but I don’t think Bioware intended it to be. Neverwinter Nights fits snuggly between the extremes of Baldur’s Gate and Diablo 2, and it’s done well. You will of course not spend all the time fighting, as you will also have to face a number of puzzles and quests that don’t involve combat. The game is still relatively non-linear in terms of gameplay, so you can solve many of the challenges in different ways depending on your profession and style of gameplay, but there is definitely a red line that everyone follows.