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Whats so great about this?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 32
Date: October 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is not Art or Philosophy, or anything close. What it is is a 200 mind-numbing hours long sequel to a traditional, dyed-in-the-wool RPG thats intensely boring. Fighting? yeah its there, but it starts to pale after the first 30 hrs. I'd rather play D2 5 times with different characters on Bnet. This game is just crap.

I'm unable to even play the game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: October 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure it's a fine game, but I can't even play it. I get as far as the opening intro, and then it crashes. I've sent an email to Black Isle's support address [and recieved a form letter, natch]. I've looked at their customer support site, followed their suggestions, and now am unable even to get as far as the promo video for Icewind Dale. I honestly give up. I shouldn't have to go through this much trouble just to play a game. Do I know anything about my drivers or blah blah blah? No, but I don't think I should. This is not *my* responsibility, this is the responsibility of those developing the game, to make sure it works for whatever's out there [within reason].. not just one or two brands of video/sound cards or whatever [and I've played several other Black Isle games just fine; it's not like I have a crappy computer]. And now that I've worked so long at trying to get this bloody thing to work, I'm not even sure I can return it...

A WONDERFUL, MASTERPIECE OF A GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you love the Dungeons and Dragons worlds, if you love fantasy, role play, and a great story line chock full of humor, fun, romance mystery and adventure, then this is the game for you! I played it twice, and I loved it both times. Now my wife is addicted to it ^_^

Disapointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 25
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was very disapointed with the scenery in BG2.The map is too modern looking over the old world style map in BG1.There arent as many places to go,and it takes forever to load when you go to a site on the map.And I thought there were supposed to be improvements over BG1?The character movements are too slow.It takes too long to swing the sword and cast spells.In IWD and BG1,it was much faster,and the character sizes were a tad larger.I think the enemy has a slight advantage in combat due to this mishap.It also lags while walking.I just hope BG3 and the sequel to IWD is much better.As of now,there is nothing from Black Isle for me to look forward too.

gotta love it :o)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

baulders 2 is just full of surprises. ive played it everyday for the past week and i still havent seen everything yet. i think its worth the money :o)

Mostly Positive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoy BGII, and think it is more than a worthy sequel to the first Baldurs Gate. Yet what constantly annoys me is the amount of lag you get on this game. I am running a PIII 850, with 128MB, and hot graphics card, but still have some performance problems.

Hopefully Black Isle will soon have a fix out.

Total Sweetness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game totaly rocks. With all the spells and weapons there are to master how can any one go wrong a game like this

It rox

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just liked it alot. Rich character development and intresting plot are prevalent in this title. Le Engine est mort, Viva le Baldur's Gate Engine!

So far, I am really sick of these weak all 3d RPG offerings. The engines are so cumbersome, its like learning an alien language. Prefabs [disappoint], especially when they are used et infinitum ala Neverwinter Nights. Really, these are not pen-and-paper RPGS; to use a palette of structure and items requires both an excellent plot and excellent item interaction.

Hmm, this review turned into one for Neverwinter Nights... Oh well.

THIS GAME ROKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

YAY I BOUGHT THIS AND HAD A GR8 TIME
I LOST IT THOUGH AND RECENTLY FOUND IT, SCRATCHED AND UNUSEABLE

Dungeons and Dragons for the Math Impaired

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The reason to play _Baldur's Gate 2_ (and the other fine games by Interplay) boils down to the fact that it's a faithful reproduction of the D&D game you used to have to play with pencils and dice.

Years and years of work went into the design and redesign of the D&D world and I'm not just talking about the rules... I'm talking about the spells, the monsters, the heroes... THE CONTENT.

D&D is a world. _Baldur's Gate 2_ is one chapter of that world wrapped up in a fine looking game that plays, well, like a book. You won't be on the edge of your seat... but also won't need to worry about madly running down hallways worried about getting blasted to bits by a rocket launcher.

_BG2_ makes no major leaps in terms of game design from _BG1_... it's all fine tuning. Dazzling special effects are not what the game is about... it's about many hours of solidly fun game play.

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