

It’s been a while but AFAIK you control three or four party members so it’s more like the older BG games than NWN1 in that regard.
Storywise it’s set in the Forgotten Realms near the regions of the first game but it’s a completely new story with new characters. Iirc the story manages to decently subvert some expectations. I remember a conversation with a dead god in the expansion that was on par with meeting Sovereign for the first time in Mass Effect.
In the last decade or so, when people called USA a 3rd world country, it was mostly tongue in cheek.
Not anymore.