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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game provided little improvement to Baldur's Gate, chiefly by not advancing the plot at all. Hard-core gamers will buy it, but I advise the casual gamer to stay away.

Got it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Got the colection, when I ordered the expantion, but it installed still, and plays great.

Details, Details

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: September 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The 3d animation and video clips were all fine and good, but the storyline could be quite annoying at times, sometimes it's really hard to do things that don't have much consequence in the plot...poor programming really....let's hope that Baldor's Gate 2 is'nt like this, as far as I'm concerned it had better be a vast improvment.

good, but not necessary

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It added a little to the main game, but nothing earth shattering and the quests don't have much to do with the main plot. The quests are VERY difficult to get through and take more than a little patience and perserverence to succeed. My advice? Seek out and downloadthe unofficial add on "Dark Side of the Sword Coast" to suplement Baldur's Gate and this Expansion Pack instead.

Oh my!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

More baldurs gate? This expansion adds a higher xp cap, more areas, more weapons, and more baddies. If you were a fan of the original, then you will definitely find more gaming goodness here. This adds around 20 hours of gameplay, as well as making the original game more of a challenge, which is always a plus. If you liked the original, get this now!

Nice thought-but a little watered down.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure that this add-on was pressured by the public to be released quickly due to the great succsess of Baldur's Gate, but at the time of release the price tag seemed a bit high for so little substance. Other than some new areas and quests to complete, the only redeeming quality of this package was the experience cap being rasied a tad giving all those dual-class humans a chance to shine. As a nice bonus, there are some REALLY cool new magical items that could ease the time an Import character will have in the next installment.

Expansion pack is a must!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You get a lot of interface improvements with expansion pack. Ctrl-Tab is the best one. So get both before you play Shadows of Amn.

It blew my mind

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 21
Date: January 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A great expansion to BG, I enjoy playing against and with my friends now on LAN.

I can't believe I wasted my money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 31
Date: January 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack (EP) was a complete wast of my time, and money. It adds a couple new magical weapons and armor, some new spells and a couple new areas to explore. There is no plot to the the EP, just some NPC saying "Oh I lost my son in Durlags Tower. . . ." and stuff like that. The only thing that made this EP worth two stars is that they cleaned up a lot of the rough edges from Baldurs Gate, and increased Experience points to a point where your fighter and like one other class can go up a level. By the way, it is just one more disk that you have to flip through if you decide to replay Baldurs Gate. In conclusion don't buy this EP, it isn't worth it, unless any new EP's come out that require it.

Brutally Hard

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I played Baldur's Gate, it was a wonderfully long experience of exploration and balanced encounters. If you ran into an over-powering encounter, you knew your party had ventured into the wrong place at the wrong time. This expansion is a bucket of cold water in the face. It's short, just four areas with a dozen or so levels, and brutally hard. Maybe I didn't level-up correctly in Baldur's Gate, but I found every step a struggle of high-level encounters, traps my their couldn't disarm and, worst of all, key puzzles. Additionally the expansion didn't have of the story elements of the original game. The game itself had almost no changes although there was a new auto-pause feature that was very helpful. Hard-core Baldur's Gate fan with a high-level party (10+) will love Sword Coast but other should probably skip it.

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