Each selected character can parlay the experience gained from combat into acquiring new feats and enhanced abilities over time. Even more monster types will engage in real-time battles using the same overhead perspective as witnessed in the original game. Using the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules set, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II features four new acts of hack-and-slash combat and powerful spell casting. Five new character types vow to stop whoever or whatever is behind this new alliance, no matter what the cost. Yet the harbor town of Baldur's Gate is still very much part of a heinous plot to control the Forgotten Realms. The mysterious disappearance of the Onyx Tower and death of Eldrith the Betrayer had left the noble heroes trapped in an unknown setting. Or something like that.This sequel to the hit 2002 action role-playing game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe picks up right where the original left off. It has deep dungeons, twisting passages, tricky puzzles, dangerous traps, a wide variety of opponents, and +3 Masterwork Flaming Long Swords. In terms of depth, there will not ever be anything to touch the glory of NetHack, but Dark Alliance does more than enough to make it a standout in the genre. It is based, after all, on one of the most reliable concepts in videogames.
That problem shouldn't plague Dark Alliance, though - it should receive all the success it deserves.
Powerslave had a heck of an engine, it was just that nobody played it. All the Lobotomy veterans on the team are well overdue a fete, considering how little credit they got for the brilliant programming of their Sega Saturn games. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is powered by one of the best 3D engines yet devised for the PlayStation 2, a feat for which developer Snowblind Studios deserves considerable acclaim.
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