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Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a wonderful game if you are looking for a co-op which I am always looking for. I didn't like it "as much" as the first one but it was a lot of fun. Lots of magical things that you can do. We gave this game away to a family member and I wish that we would have kept it.

This game ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is almost as cool as the first one. Sequals usually arent that good but this one is very impressive. To the makers of Baldurs gate series:...MAKE A 3RD GAME

as good as it gets! Dark Alliance 2 ps2 is Ultimate

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pros: great grapics, great sound, fun to play, simple to learn.
a true classic game for the PS2 in Diablo Fashion

Cons: only one i can think of is theres no part 3 and interplay did this
one not snowblind studios so same engine from the 1st game.

its an adventure spanning 3 chapters (yes that may seem short but the game can take from 10 hours to several days to beat depending on if you play little here and there or blow through it all at once) but honestly i used to own this and had regretted selling it now i have it for the 3rd time and BG DA2 and that makes this worth it especally the fact that you can play as drizzt and also can IMPORT your character into PART 2 making replay value high! its even more fun with a friend! but the battles are hack n slash diablo esque style fights andand the bosses *last one made quite an impresion* are awesome and well voiced by the talented voice actors 5 star all the way and worth every penny especally if you liked Champions of Norrath or Champions at Arms also sweet games.

80+ Levels 100's of magical weapons items and armor and you can even Craft your Own Armor and Weapons this time around!

IN A TWO WAY TIE FOR MY FAVORITE PS2 RPG!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game and the two champions of norrath games are my favorite PS2 RPGs. Everything about this game is awesome except for the limited number of character choices at the beginning of the game. I would have liked to have been able to choose from several races, male or female, and then select a class/profession from several choices, instead of the cookie cutter pre-made choices available to you. I would have liked to have been able to cutomize my toons name and at least his/her facial features also. This is the only area in this game that lacks. The awesome item creation/customization totally rocks though. If you could combine the better character selection/customization of the two champions games with the item creation/customization of this game, and retain all of the other good stuff, you would have the ultimate RPG.

Great to play with two people!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My boyfriend and I played Gauntlet and the first Baldur's Gate, and we noticed a difference with this one right away. I like the story behind it, and the plot twists (near the end there's a twist that I never expected), but The Boyfriend doesn't so much get into the plot. I always get upset if he plays without me for a while because I miss out on what's going on. He, on the other hand, says "the point is to kill orcs - the plot doesn't matter...). So I was happy with this one because it had a great plot.

I liked the referencing to the first one - there was a job cleaning the sewers, which I thought was cute - the sewers were a mess because of the first adventurers who came through and killed all the rats. I also noticed that the music was the same in that job as it was in the first Baldur's Gate when we were in the sewers.

The music is great - all of these Baldur's Gate and Norrath games have such stunning soundtracks. I could have left it on in the background just to listen.

I liked the fact that we could share money in this game - in the first we couldn't, and I had more charisma (just like in real life!!) so he would drop things for me to sell, and I'd buy things for him because we got better prices. But with being able to share money it didn't make so much of a difference.

I loved the workshop. I made some amazing weapons - it was a lot of fun to think about what sorts of stones you wanted to add.

I also liked that your home stayed in Baldur's Gate the whole time, so you always had the same shop guy.

It took us about a month to finish the game, and I thought that was just about the right amount of time. I'm glad we had two people, though - I think it would have been a lot harder, especially at the end, with only one person.

Great game, gorgeous graphics, awesome music - what more can you ask for?

Pretty good, especially in comparison...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: July 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have read a great deal of reviews on this game and its predecessor, and many of them claim that the first game was superior to this one, but I just can't see it. The first game was short, there was no workshop to alter your armor and weapons (one of the best aspects of this sequel), and the complete shortage of character feats was quite underwhelming.

This second game took all the crummy/boring facets of the first game and fixed them. It also took the good qualities of the first and improved upon them.

As I mentioned before, we get the workshop in this version, which greatly adds to the gameplay. No longer do you have to HOPE for a killer weapon or piece of armor...you can just make it (if you have enough money). The game, overall, seemed to take longer. This was, I'm sure, partly due to the greater number of available sidequests as well as the ability to re-visit earlier stages and find newer, more difficult (and more experience-points laden) enemies.

Let's not forget, too, that we have two extra character types to pick from at the very beginning. This, combined with more extensive character feat possibilities made leveling up characters more interesting.

Speaking of levelling up, one of the big drawbacks of the first game was that it was so short that it was nearly impossible to level your characters up to a point where you would have learned the majority of your character feats. It was disappointing. I even used the cheat menu to level warp and import my character to fight bosses repeatedly and I still only made it to level 19 before getting thoroughly bored.

This second installment of the BG:DA games, however, changes all that. By the end of the game, I had learned almost all of my character feats WITHOUT using any cheat codes or importing characters.

Overall, this game was far superior to the first installment. I only gave it four stars, however, because it just has no replay value. Granted, there are five different characters with completely different abilities. I even began playing it a second time with a different character but found myself turning the game off before even finishing the first level.

Nevertheless, I would recommend the game, especially for two-players!

great if you want mindless action

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is basically a hack-n-slash game. You basically wind up figuring out the most effective attacks, then ignore beefing up any other special abilities. Some of the environments look pretty cool, though I realize I don't like games that show everything in top-down 3/4 perspective anymore (I think that's what they call it). But there is a lot of action. So if you like killing monsters for hours on end (I found it to be a longer game than one person pointed out. Longer than 12 hours IMO) you'll like this game. I think for this kind of game, Gauntlet Dark Legacy is WAY more fun. It's probably the same game length, definitely better graphics/perspective, more interesting level puzzles (Baldur's Gate has none really), and focuses on the abilities you need to kill monsters most effectively. There are no unnecessary abilities in that game. You can also play with a total of 4 people. BG is only for 1-2 players.

Not bad, but still a disapointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You know, I really hate when this happens. Dark Alliance 2 is a good game, it really is. There's a lot to like about this one. Unfortunately, it's unworthy of its predecessor, and it pales dramatically when compared to its contemporaries, and that's just sad.

Things start out interestingly enough, with the characters from the preceeding game captured, and a whole new cast to choose from... which, honestly, irritated me from th start. Seriously, what a cop-out. In any case, the new choises seem promising - a (dark elf) Monk, a (elven) Necromancer, a (dwarf) Thief, a (human) Barbarian, and a (human) Cleric. Things seem well set up for hack-and-slashy goodness, until you actually start playing.

For some reason, in the sequel, we get comparatively poor character animations, right off the bat. The Dark Elf Monk runs like an idiot (if she had "run like a girl" I might have been annoyed but forgiving, but she just looks plain stupid - who runs with both arms swinging on the same side of their body? Honestly?), the Cleric looks... we'll say uncomfortable to be polite, and the others look plain and boring. So your choises are, basically, play a character who looks dumb or boring, take your pick. Not a promising start.

The gae immediately gets you into the action, fighting Goblins that have overrun a caravan; unfortunately, the goblins look more like irritated, tailless monkies than anything else. That's when you start leveling up, and that's where everything goes to hell compared to the original Dark Alliance.

The new characters early level abilities just don't compare with those in Dark Alliance. The Sorceress in the original starts out great and just gets better, but her "replacement" in DA2 is a weak and pathetic Necromancer. The Dwarven Warrior is a force to be reconed with out of the starting gate in DA, but DA2's Barbarian is... well, impotent. I'm not even going to start on the Cleric, other than to say that, outside of two player games, she's useless. Only the Thief is actually worth a darn in the beginning, and he winds up falling behind in everything other than item creation later on.

Also, the game is short. Very short. I'm not exactly speedy in completing games, and I got maybe 12 hours of play out of this one. The original DA kept me going for 16 hours; it's just not good to let a sequel outlast its predecessor like that. Still, the short playtime allowed me to play through all the characters in a relatively short time, and I have to say that the Monk is may favorite, if you can handle her looking like a complete idiot when she runs.

My problem here isn't that this is a bad game - it isn't. In fact, the missions are more interesting and interestingly implemented than in DA (near the start of the game, you have to repel goblins invading a town, and literally save townsfolk in the process. It wasn't an impending threat to the townspeople - the goblins were right there, in the town, killing the citizenry). The item creation system is facinating and allows for infinite possibility. The storyline is more in-depth than DA. All good things.

And yet it still doesn't quite fill the shoes of its predecessor. Worse, it is completely blown away by its contemporaries. Champions of Norrath and Champions: Call To Arms have better character designs, up to four player co-operative play, better character abilities, a map-zoom (in 1 player mode) that's worth a darn, and goblins that don't look like annoyed refugees from Outbreak.

So, basically, get this if you're a fan of the genera. Otherwise, eh, it's worth a rental.

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. I have it for the Xbox and the graphics are well above average. This installment was much harder than the first and longer too. There are 5 characters to choose from ranging from the necromancer to the barbarian. The adventure is fairly long ranging from 7-12 hours depending on if you get everything. Another great feature is that each character has his or her own side quest which you can complete which will help rack up the experience points. I think the best adition to this game is the ablility to create and customize your equipment with magical gems you find. They gems all give you special ablilites and you can tweak it to fit your character perfectly.You can also play with a friend witch adds great replay value to the game. Overall it is a solid RPG that isn't hard to get into but may dissapoint hardcore RPG fans. I give it 4 out of 5.

dark aliance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: March 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

dark aliance was awosme!! it had awsopme graphic mostly at the cript those zombies look like they were real i mean some have no heads come after ya or no arms and no head or be cut in have and still chase you any way it just sum people i bet who are reading this are saying a kid says this he dosent know whats good well listen, if you dont beleave me whatever but you people out there who do rent i tell ya me ansd my friend stayed up all last night playin the game we couldnt stop and u have mutliple choice on wepons and amour it like somthing so advice you could on dream of it. words cant really descripe the awsomeness!! of the game the only way is to play it! imean i just wish every one new how great this game is i mean i search the web all the time llokin for the game like this i've been search for 4 years but fially sumthin pops up . this , this is like so cool so awsome so changelling but not hard or boring its so fun to beat the living crap out of the monster you just feel , you feel like your fighting it when your only one player or with a friend you just feel like your there kickin' butt! it so much fun eveyr body who dosen't like middle ages games or fighting it like nothing u ever experniced you just get so , so in to it you fighting and then a enmey hiding and pops out at you your like oh my god! then you fight it and the. and getting your tea mmate after he/she dies is easy and the things each certain people get out of them is so awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its a huge envirtoment but not too huge you can interact with most people. i just hope everyone can get an chance to this play this awsome thing you you i cant explain it its just so awsome and so.. awsome... i cant just stop and its not too addciting but its adicting

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