The only game that's better that shadows of amn, Black isle, please come back, we miss you!
One of the few games in my shoebox that i play atleast once a day, it combines comedy, great storyline, wonderfull characters and amazing gameplay for an experience that will have you return over and over again!
The storyline: You start out in candlekeep, your home.
You foster father gorion has sent you to the inn to get supplies for a journey, you don't know where and he is secretive with details.
But soon after leaving you get ambushed.
Gorion dies and you're left alone in the wilderness.
You have no idea what to do, you can't go back to candlekeep so you have to go forward...
The gameplay: hard as hell, and that means something coming from me!
You can only advance to lvl 8 (without the expansion)
but you don't really need to go further since that would make the game inbalanced. you can have a max of five group members with you, and you need to choose wisely, since aligment and class means a great deal, if you just have warriors, you won't make it far.
This game also has Very much replay value since there are quests based on aligment, reputation and class, and you won't find all the side- quests on your first run, the game is riddled with comedy, like the gravestones in nashkel or the Oompa the exploding ogre.
The game also has a multitude of classes and races, and it's defenitly worth playing through the game with each class.
Basiclly you can play this game hundred times over and still find new stuff.
there is sidequests and eastereggs everywhere, so you will put alot of time exploring.
the enemies are hard, so you must use every skill in your party to survive.
The game also has a great character creation engine, you can spend hours deciding what you should be.
the graphics: pretty bad, but it won't mattter to you since the game is great.
the spell effects are pretty good.
The sound: Very good, the monsters sound good, your party banters with eachother and people are coughing and talking like they are real.
The best game ever made, but it can be hard to find, get it of the web if you can't find it. You must get it. period.