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baldurs gate dark alliance 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 41
Date: September 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I started playing this game about a week ago. Its an awesome game in nearly every aspect.EXEPT ONE! Whoever came out with this game better make a Gamecube version or they just lost a customer. I loved the first one and now want to play the second one besides at my friends house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gave it 1 star overall because of it lacking a GC version.
SO MAKE ONE ALREADY!!!!

ummm a lil heads up...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 48
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

just for all you parents anc christians who dont know, this game is Dungens and Dragons...you know that board game thats called all the deaths and demon possesions? yea i thought yall mite like to know. but for all of you who dont care, it was a fantastic game...easy and short. but awesome

campaign length does not equal moneys worth

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I feel sorry for anyone who has spent more than ten dollars on this game. I purchased it for 8.98 at Toys 'R' Us. Basically a dollar for every hour of campaign time I got out of it.

I'm a huge rpg, particularly forgotten realms fantasy fan, and I was sorely dissapointed in this game. While, the story is missing in detail, the adventuring is fun, heavy hack n slash type, very little to no RP at all. The ending was just that, an ending, a real let down. We went through this game tooth and nail, making sure to uncover every stone, secret and bad guy and it still only took me 8 and a half hours to beat. I was really dissapointed. Just when we thought there was going to be a spectacular plot twist and the game was really going to start kicking, it just ended, promising yet 'another installment' in the Baldurs Gate series. Honestly, instead of purchasing the next game, I'll just pass. I just can't justify paying new game prices for what amounts to the time you would get out of a free community expansion.

If you want to purchase an RPG, save your money and put it towards the NWN platinum pack for the PC. Now there you can waste the hours away!!!

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.

Disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: August 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Some "haters" have given me unhelpful votes for this review. BELIEVE ME, I speak the truth. Walking and breathing at the same time is more difficult than beating this mediocre game.

Steps to beat the game:

1) play a necromancer
2) switch to "enervation"
3) hold X
4) win

My wife and I loved DA1 but this game left a lot to be desired. I played the necromancer and I found I could easily just leave my spell book set on "enervation" and basically kill anyone who got in my way. She played the barbarian and was getting upset because anything that came on our screen immediately died, and my mana never ran low.

What I am trying to say was that this game was RIDICOULOUSLY EASY. I mean it doesn't get much easier than this when it comes to video games. I was really expecting a lot more out of this, maybe even a slight challenge. Would have been nice to maybe die trying to fight a boss and being forced to try a different strategy... We might go back through and try it on the most difficult setting, but play on "normal" left a lot to be desired, and my motivation to try it again is low due to the new Everquest co-op being out.

Sorry to break it to you guys, but the reviews are out.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 83
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I have no opinion. I have never played the first one and was never planning to get the second. I am merely here to lay down the facts. I got an issue of a game magazine and there was a review of this game- they normally get it prereleased. The game, apparently, was a true disappointment. Not only was it exactly like the last one, but it was apparently very repetitive and exactly like the last game. I heard the first one was great, but supposedly the second one is kind of a bummer. Hey, they could be wrong, but considering that three professionals reviewed it, I wouldn't really think so. For people who maybe played the first one, they could give this a look. Sorry, I have no opinion here, but I'm just laying down the facts for all of you to see.

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.

BGDA2 ROCKS!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 22
Date: February 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best...by-far ive ever played in any genre...not only do you have the option of doing just about anything you want with the side quests and all...but you can customize your character completely.....not only can you just customize them ...but their weapons..their armor...EVERYTHING

awesome game....man....period.

Child Vesion of D&D

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 21
Date: February 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is reallly boring and there is nothing new or revolutionary about it. The spells are mediocore and the gameplay is hack & slash.

Not a true RPG!

This game is only for those who were really into the 1st

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is basically an expansion to the first. The story continues directly after the first. The graphics are basically the same. There are five starting characters rather than three. There are new feats and spells your characters can use, and the armor is custom designed for each character when they wear it. The map is expanded but you will go to some of the same areas as the first. The number one problem is the monsters are the same. There are new monsters but most are the same and they are the same difficulty. I would give this game 5 stars as a fan of the first but as a gamer I can only give it 3.

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