What can be said, while it is ageing, it is still the standard by which all other fantasy RPG games are measured? Its graphics while not flashy, do an amazingly good job of conveying the feel. The game play is superb; the feel is epic, if a bit juvenile. This was fixed in BG2. The characters a bit flat, but the engine and game dynamics more than make up for this. Again, BG2 really helped to fix all of the little detractors, but man what an arsenal of features it brought to the table, still better than Neverwinter Nights and Tomb of Elemental Evil could ever be. For its time, it really was far ahead of anything else. In a way I wish I had never played it b/c I wouldn't know what all the other games are missing.
Role-playing owes it's origins to the classic board game "Dungeons & Dragons" in more than one way. The genre as we know today, has not only inherited many of it's finer tactical and strategic elements from the board gam... Read Full Review
Ahh, the first game in the Baldur's gate series. Don't mind that I am 11 years late on the review. I just dug this game out again after thinking a lot about playing BG2. They have a lot of similarities, and neither of... Read Full Review
