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Enjoy slow motion animation battles that put you to sleep?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 62
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game eats your computer up. Gives you bad control over the characters. The characters spend more time standing there than fighting. I can go get a coffee and come back and they would have just begun to trade blows. Load load load. Insignifant mission after mission. Moody characters that are supposed to be your friends. Interface...terrible. Annoying pictures. Annoying smart remarks. Did I mention load load load? Click click click, oops I missed the treasure chest again. Oops I am attacking my own player again.

THIS GAME SUCKS. I'd rather play Pacman; at least he won't stare at his enemies for 5 seconds before he attacks him. This game frustrated me so much it deserves -5.

Better than Diablo2? Only "BlackIsle Amazon.com surfers" and "Die hard Baldure's Gate already mind made up fans" would say so.

I look down the list of comments and I noticed your comments only help if you give a positive one. Go ahead, say my comment didn't help. I'd rather keep my integrety than please people with what they want to hear.

I wouldn't be surprised if Black Isle staff has been here stop IP and User hopping to discredit negative reviews; only die hard fans are falling for it.

Black Isle will get no more of my money or time. Blizzard is better and so are many other companies.

Long Live Valve!

More Like a -7 evil stars!!!! This Is A Gross Sick Game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 64
Date: March 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay,I wish I could give it a zero! yuck!!! This game is twisted! The plot is sinister. Its down right creepy! The villain defines evil! He collects people in jars of water and does experiments on them. Some of the victims beg to be killed. In fact, the PLAYER must kill one of these tortured victims in order to continue playing the game!!!! I bought this game because of the reviews claiming this was the best of all games but then I played it. So now I'm utterly DISGUSTED!!! Yes, the game play is great but the plot and scenarios are evil. I can't believe that SO MANY people have skipped over the plot in their reviews and some people have even praised it! EWWWWWWWWWW!!! So Beware! If you have any moral backbone or ethical values, then stay far away from this evil game! And don't argue that it's only a "game". What type of person would want to spend hours "playing" by killing tortured victims yourself before you can move on in the "Game". It's wrong, evil, and harmful. If you don't care, then what does that say about you? Don't buy this game!

Sadly Lacking

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 34
Date: October 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You may love it now, but five years from now you'll wonder why you cared. Shadows of Amn is an attractive but stupid companion, a vacuous bubble-head that is nice in the sack but grows boring when you find that lover who has no head lice.

BG2 has flaws and is an imitation of long ago published modules for AD&D. Modules B-1, D-1, and a few others went into the making of this "unique" game. Supposedly the coders and designers are in love with D&D and that makes it better, but to be quite plain, most of the wonderful D&D spells weren't present, and this game fell far below Darksun CRPG in intelligence and imagination.

The new character classes were repetitive when they weren't useless. Berserker was the same as Barbarian, the Druid kits sucked, Blade and Swashbuckler should have been condensed into a single class, Skald and Jester were useless, Assassins had an ability anyone could develop, Archers were not powerful enough to compensate for their deficits, although Undead Slayers and Blades were interesting. The Dragon Magazine archival cd (for the IBM PC) presents many interesting character classes that were better constructed than most kits, and this was with unmalleable old first edition D&D. The Jester, Barbarian, and Archer classes from Dragon Magazine were far better done in those ancient pages than in this lame brained CRPG.

Graphical and audial beauty were indeed present, but as to a poetic fantasy and artistic integrity? There wasn't any. Five years from now you will be muttering, "The graphics were so typical, the music was nice but repeated so often..."

The game is filled with programming errors, unfinished areas, and poorly considered plots. It all seemed as if developed and designed by marijuana befuddled high schoolers, except for the art and music.

My advice is wait til Neverwinter is published, and bombard Black Isle and Bioware with complaints about their lack of creativity and intelligence in design.

It's not for everyone

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 23
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've played several rpgs over the years from Prince of Persia, Shining Wisdom, Grandia II to Diablo 2 and Everquest, all to the end or very high levels.

I read a lot of BG 2 reviews praising it and decided to try it. Having never played any type of D&D games before I found it impossible to jump into this game and get started, right from the first step of character creation where you will have no idea what to do if you haven't done D&D things before. The tutorial was slightly helpful but more than anything it proved to me how dorky and clunky the interface is. The manual is again pretty useless for actually learning to play the game, though it seems to be full of cute stories. I still have no idea how to pick the best weapons for my characters. The combat is just bad, if you can even figure out at the beginning how to manage four players all at the same time without hitting pause every 2 seconds, then you get to watch some really jerky action where your little characters with lousy graphics are mostly hacking at air. The spells are interesting enough but the system for managing them and pressing the sleep button randomly to regenerate them) is horrible. There's no way to tell how tough a monster is without just attacking it and seeing if it dies. There are just bizarre things (apparently D&D) like golems can only be attacked with blunt weapons. And these are just the tip of the iceberg of my experience with the game.

So in the end there are hundreds if not thousands of little details to keep track of, an interface that still feels incredibly clunky after I've been trying to play it for 6 months, poor control in general, bad combat with dorky looking characters (with lag and bugs such as freezes even on my 1.4 Mhz Geforce-2 video card machine) and a story that has refused to get me involved with it's stupid dialogue. All this despite me chipping away at it for 6 months just because so many people seem to like it.

So I would never recommend it to anyone other than maybe hardcore D&D people who already know those systems. Even then I don't understand why they'd like it with much more playable games out there.

This is not D&D

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 43
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is not D&D. The whole thing is too open ended. There is no real purpose. I quit this game in less than a week. If you play D&D go buy Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. Now there is a D&D game. Not this.

a clone of the first

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: July 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is a clone of the first. let me tell you it sux. the gameplay is exactly the same there are no improvement on graphics and it is very predictable. also your character starts out less powerful then the others. basically it is predicatble,stupid,and not worth the money. if you want better forgotten realms games go for icewind dale or the original baldurs gate. but dont go for nwn or bg2

Baldurs Gate 2, shadows of Amn

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 44
Date: October 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Can't create your own party. Have to have one character with silly story and incessant dialog, get npc add ons that one would not use if one could create their own party. About as bad as Planetscape Torment. Even looks the same. How Black Isle can produce good game like Icewind and then something not so good like this is a mystery.

Shadows of Amn -- NOT any better than the first

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 26
Date: June 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I read a review of B.G. II sometime ago, which led me to believe this was a much-improved version of the first B.G. That is not the case --judging from game-play I've experienced thus far.

I don't think even the character interface is much improved over the earlier B.G...just a little different in interface and graphics (but not any better, in my opinion). At least I have not seen much improvement in the starting-dungeon.

Perhaps this was by design...perhaps it's like the beginning (in black and white as opposed to the later techni-color) of the Wizard of Oz? I sincerely hope so, for my money's sake.

One would think they might have, at least, improved the interface, but I guess Black Isle figured why mess with something that worked? Oh sure, it's a little different...but the basic interface is the same! And it's not even aesthetically more pleasing!

I haven't explored farther than the first 'act' of this game, but have yet to find anything different from the original B.G.

I hope to find something better/different later. So far, nothing. Save your money; if you liked the original Baldur's Gate, great...but don't expect anything different, or improved, in Black Isle's latest...B.G. II.

Actually, I guess Neverwinter Nights (and its expansion(s)) are the most recent things from Black Isle...but I don't care for them any more than Baldur's Gate II.

I guess I'm missing out on group game-play? The solo game-play is good, but nothing better than the original Baldur's Gate. In fact, the reason I liked BG1 was the capability to play multiplayer while soloing.

I mean, you got to play a party of 6, with one main character...in NWN, you only get one player, at least as far as I've played it solo.

Baldur's Gate was a fun game, but it seldom deviated from the 'find monster, kill monster...save game lest you be killed and must start over at some earlier point.'

I guess that was part of its appeal. Unfortunately, Black Isle, apparently, doesn't know where to go from there.

There's not really any strategy involved. You just get used to playing ever-increasingly-more-difficult monsters...and pausing more, or you have to start over for some pointless repetitive play.

I loved the first Baldur's Gate. The jury is still out, for me, on Neverwinter Nights -- I don't like solo play in it at all, but the multiplayer capability may prove it a more fun game. I haven't experimented with that aspect of it.

With respect to the B.G. series, it seems to me that Black Isle became satisfied with its status quo in Baldur's Gate I, and so did not improve on the game in BGII. They just went for what they thought would sell based on the original -- not original at all, but it sells!

Too Hard

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 30
Date: October 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has excellent graphics and sound. It's fun at first, but then choosing tons of options andd stuff gets really tedious. I don't reccomend this game.

Not a good game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 30
Date: November 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I spent so much for this game thinking the graphics would be as people have stated, what a joke! This is a game that looks as though it was devrived from the early 90's! With the tech now graphics could have been better for the money! I rather spend my time playing the old Dungens and Dragons then wasting time on this boring game! I regret buying it, I wish I could return it!!! I hope this helps you make the right chose on buying this game ;)

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