Average, no more no less.
User Rating: 7.1 | Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II XBOX
Well I have spent quite some time with this game and as I said on the deck, its average. The game is graphically ok, it is nothing that we have not seen or experienced before. The cut-scenes in the game seem very rigid and did not seem to add much value to the experience. Something where a game of this kind should actually stand out. As a fan of the Forgotten Realms series of books, the atmosphere be it the forests or the fields and the general dungeon layout seemed good and is faithful enough to the books. The level of detail is enjoyable in the first few minutes of each area but then the novelty value of that wears off and you are left with a repetitive experience. The musical score is one aspect of this game that stands out, eerily good at all the right places, keeps you on your feet in those dark corridors. What the game lacked graphically it made up for in this department. The graphics were not conveying the tense atmosphere in a dungeon other than the fact that its dark, whereas the music and the sound effects complimented each other and more importantly the gameplay so that the adrenaline was pumping at all the right places. The controls are those of a good ol' hack n' slash games, press that button fast until you kill them all, otherwise retreat, wait for health bar to fill up and go back in, done with all of 2 buttons no less! Where does this game fare well then? If you are a perfectionist gamer with a passion for R.A Salvatore and hack n' slash games then this maybe the thing for you. Two of Salvatore's popular characters are waiting to be unlocked in the game and if you play long enough then you can max out all the feats available, so there is plenty to do, the matter is can you play long enough for it to happen? That will depend on what you like and how much patience you have.
