This game provided an excellent dungeons and dragons experience on your computer. There was plently of different monsters to fight and magic items to equip your characters with. There are character specific items and items that are limited for different classes. There were also several different NPC's to make your party unique. The game also offers several different areas to explore including dungeons, cities, outdoors, etc. These The games gets bogged down a touch when you are in the city of baldur's Gate. The game does have a touch too many quests that are based on fetching an item for someone which can get repetitive. The game also offers a way to change the gameplay throughout the game. This will enable players to set the games parameters to meet their requirements.
Overall this game is great. I'd give it an almost perfect grade. In fact I have played it several times using different formations of NPC's and different classes of character and it works well every time.
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
