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This Game is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

= Baldur's Gate just plain cool!!!
Reviewer: Paul from North Webster, IN USA
Baldur's Gate 2 is an awsome thriller of off the seat action! The gameitself is pretty cool. The real time weather and color effects make this game totally worth it! It holds a good story line, and great graphics with some major weopons,and ARMOR! For instance like Drizzts Mithril chainmail("you have to put Drizzt asleep to do that, for good) and Scimitars like Drizzt's plus five defender, or his plus three frostband! You can also steal! For instance you can pickpocket, or pick locks. I think you should try this game out. Anyway I don't want to give away all the secrets. While this game is good the second is much better, but I suggest you buy this one first to get a good impression of whats going in the game.

An excellent CRPG that breathed life into a dying genre.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Baldur's Gate came along at just the right time. At a time when the RPG genre was dying out, it came in and rejuvinated the genre.

Baldur's Gate is an isometric CRPG, and from first glance, it might seem like your generic CRPG, but it has several features that set it apart from the rest.

First of all is the infinity graphics engine. This engine allows for impressive areas, excellent graphics, spell effects, and great scale.

Secondly, and most note able is the AD&D ruleset. This ruleset allows for both simple, and in-depth character development, as well as a great way to develop statistics for both characters, NPCs, and any creatures you fight.

Thirdly there is excellent dialogue, voice acting, and story progression throughout. The story is quite epic and it makes the game epic, and makes you important.

All in all this game is great in every respect, and most importantly it began a series of excellent "infinity engine games" all of which were wonderful, and continue to be produced to this day.

Superb...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is wonderful. Customizing my character was very entertaining (and one of things I enjoy the most about RPGs, and the small side quests are numerous and interesting. There any many areas that serve no particular purpose other than to gain some XP doing quests. This, I think, is a weakness of the succeeding games in the BG series: there are not enough exploration options available. The possibilites of your party are nearly endless, since there are many NPCs, all of whom have their own strengths. However, there is little NPC interaction, which is disappointing. There are some annoying aspects of gameplay (which is what caused me to downgrade this game slightly), such as the fact that the characters are excruciatingly slow, and have a poor pathfinder feature, which leaves them w/ a tendency to go places other than where you planned. You will be challenged from the first shocking event to the final show-down...and you will enjoy it the entire way.

To Battle!...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is worth it! Graphics are great story is great, but it needs more characters! And definitely more classes (Ex: Fighter or a Mage) But otherwise this game is great for all RPG (Fantasy) Fans. The only thing to that sets this back from a perfect score...is it's installation. It is way to much for my computer, and it went way to slow that I had a hard time getting through battles with out dying! I dont recommend this game if you have little RAM and Computer Space. Otherwise, this game is for all!

Merely very good, as opposed to the sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just cannot help comparing this game with BG2, which makes it look sort of incomplete, with lots of wasted potential. But if I just think of it as its own game, there is no doubt it is worth five stars.

A few years back, I got interested in AD&D, but never really managed to even properly try to get into it; I am hardly a sociable kind of person, and would not have even known what to do. Anyway, I think I got Planescape: Torment some time afterwards; it satisfied my need for computer roleplaying but not AD&D style fantasy stuff; it was too nonstandard. BG, which I acquired some time later, was all but. It was like a real epitome of Tolkien-imitation fantasy, and very nearly everything I had wanted (and everything that was missing, and more, I found in BG2 later on).

In BG, which is situated in an extremely standard (and well-made) fantasy world and applies an extremely standard (and well-made) rpg rule system, you start out with a level 1 character, a complete weakling (particularly if you are a wizard) at first who becomes powerful in the normal fashion, whose role you're supposed to play, and a number of other, pre-made (as opposed to the PC, whom you can determine to be exactly as you want) characters can join you later on. Then you go around solving a mystery - which makes for a pretty decent plot, and a very good later on when certain surprising elements appear to it - and doing lots of completely optional quests; it is easy to achieve the maximum experience point amount for all characters - at least if you do not change them too often - long before the end.
The interpretation of the AD&D rules seems well-nigh perfect, the graphics are good, the sounds and musics nice, and the only thing that is really bad is the "pathfinding AI" of the characters, which makes them go the wrong way most of the time when in small, confined spaces.

There are some minor faults, such as that, sort of realistically but very inconveniently, the game unpauses when going into the inventory screen, or that, while the NPCs that can join your party have clear personalities, they rarely interact with you or anyone or react to anything, but these can be forgiven - and have almost all been fixed in BG2.

BG2 is yet much, much better than this game, but play it anyway, and then continue with the same character into that sequel which this original game is really just a prelude to.

And a final *W*A*R*N*I*N*G*!*: There is something in this game's plot that is only revealed in the end, though it is hinted at all the time. Do not read reviews of BG2 - or even these reviews here for some of them, made by amateurs as they are, reveal it - before you have found it out yourself. It, and initially not knowing it, is rather the idea of the whole game.

funfunfun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was my very favorite until BG2 came out. I've finished it at least 5 times, and will probably play it again in the future. I didn't find anything wrong with this game.

Still a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Baldur's Gate is still a great game even after several years. 3/4 view, solid role playing, good range of character classes, interesting antagonists, plentiful quests, and lots of magic make it a must play for any serious role player.

Not nearly as fun as the sequel, but its fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Very fun game. It is not as nearly as fun as Balders Gate 2, but it does great on getting you ready for part 2. Lets you in on the storyline and teaches you how to play. Baulders Gate 2 is the best game I have ever played hands down.

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