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Computer role-playing grows up again.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 45 / 55
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, when most AD&D games were still published by SSI in varying Gold Box series, you were pretty much limited to a specific set of interpretations to the AD&D rules. While Baldur's Gate still follows AD&D basic rules (though the second edition, I believe), it has done so in a much more free-flowing, indepedent way. Combat has solidified and become less innately hack-and-slash. If you're a role-playing fan, or you have a soft spot in your heart for the classic Gold Box series that fueled computer role-playing for so long, don't miss this modern descendent.

A very, very good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 30
Date: November 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Take notice - this is an excellent game, thoughtful and non-linear, and as true to the AD&D spirit without losing the fun as I've ever seen. Worth its money, and head and shoulders above anything else that I've seen in its genre for a long, long time.

Balders Gate

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 33
Date: November 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I find Balders Gate one of the best games we have today.it is a good rpg and it has a good kind of D&D theme . I think any rpg lover will love this game. It is worth the money!

Fantastic Role-Playing Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 34
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I bought this excellent game because a friend recommend this superior game to me. I have played this game for over 1,000 hours and I am still not the least bit tired of it. I hope you find my review on this extraordinary product helpful.

Don't believe it until you see it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 41
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This mythical game has been "due any day now" for a whole year! If you want to order it, be prepared to sit, wait, and be disappointed!

Awesome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: July 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I don't own this game as of yet, but every time that I see it I wish it was available to me. This game from the moment I saw it advertised on the Internet grabbed me and made me want it. I have been waiting too long for it to be released. I just have to get my wife to let me buy it. I love roll playing games. Very well thought out plot and awesome graphics. Put this game out quickly please. Joe Aliso Viejo, Ca.

Baldurs Gate Arrives

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: July 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The long awaited Macintosh version of BG has arrived and it is fantastic. I am running the game on a Graphite IMac with 128MB of RAM. The graphics and sound are excellent, 24bit runs faster than 32bit. The game ships on 5 CD-ROMs and is only available (at this time) as a single-user game. The multi-user game should be out in 4 to 6 weeks. The game loaded in about 2 minutes under easy install. If you like following the AD&D print rules (2nd edition) you are really going to love this game.

Sorry, it's a little late!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: August 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

While Baldur's Gate is an exceptional game, it is to little to late. This game cannot compete with Diablo II. If you are going to spend you're hard earned money on a game, buy Diablo II. It has beter graphics, plot, and is by far the better game. Graphic Simulations took so much time that when they finally released the game, they had to deal with Blizzard's epic game. All I can say is, "Sorry, Graphic Simulations... you should have kept your deadlines... it would have made you more sales in the end."

Won't run on 64mb

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 24
Date: August 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hi,

I have been waiting for this game for 8months. I received it the other day and quickly found out that even thought the box says 64mb required, which I have, it will not run for long without crashing, taking the mac with it. I run a 350mhz iMac with ati128rage, and 64mb ram , tons of disk space. So I am very disappointed with this product. When it works it's great, but that is not often. Maybe I will send it back and get Diablo II!

Why Diablo II doesn't compare

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 28
Date: August 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought D II first. I played it and I liked it. The improvements from Diablo were good and I was pleased. Then a few days later Baldur's Gate came in the mail. Holy geez! As a computer gamer, I was impressed. But as a long-time RPG fanatic, I was blown away. A game like this could replace the traditional RPG. Listen to this, you generate your Player Character just like you would in an RPG, no having to chose from a standard 5 PCs as you must in D II. And you can customize the actual appearance of your PC. Not only that, but you must think. It's not your typical hack-and-slash game. Those of you who are bitter about the late arrival, well, GET OVER IT.

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