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Heck Yeh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is mad fun the graphics are great it has a cool plot it's really fun to play It runs quite well, and it is a huge and captivating game world fill with fun and fighting! All this easlily compensates for the massive price tag!

Greatest of the Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Now that Baldurs Gate 2 is out, I have built another temple in my backyard in which to place it at night. By day i sing praters and hymns in the temple and then at noon i begin my most pleasureful pastime... Baldurs Gate Baby.
On a more serious note. I've been a DM for fourteen years and this is the closest thing to heaven for a RPG buff. I put it up on my TSR/WOTC game shelf next to Eye of the Beholder, Dragon Strike, Legends of Valor, The Summoning and Veil of Darkness (BTW if you know and have played all these games. U ROCK!)
This game unlike Final Fantasy is what RPGing is all about PERIOD

This game is amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This rpg is based on Dungeons and Dragons. Though D&D requires alot of books and time. This game, which is based on d&d, has it all. The gameplay is indefinite, your options are unlimited, it is complicated, but you get used to it. The gameplay is overall amazing.

Also sold on Amazon With another name

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game can be found for sale on amazon by typeing the game name in and adding macplay to the front of the name ! why I don't know. but they have four buyers waiting here for it and it is available under the other name? Who knows?

Good Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Everything about this game is polished and thoughtful. While the graphics would probably now be considered a bit dated and are not 3-D, I find the artwork beautifully done and interesting to look at. The sounds mesh realistically with the environments, music is good, and the voice-acting superb. I particularly like the NPC (non-player character) Minsc, and his hamster Boo. While the story is "serious" there are quite a few comic moments sprinkled throughout, making for some humorous turns.
This is not a game that can be easily picked up, however, and I would really hesitate before getting for a young child, particularly if they were not familiar with D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) or RPG's in general. (Plus, some of the humor is skewed a little bit more towards adults.) The game has a bit of a learning curve as you familiarize yourself with the skills of your character, spells, enemies and so forth. If you don't apply yourself to learning the mechanics of it I could see it being quite frustrating as you will die at every turn. If, like me, you are not already familiar with the genre you may want to take a look around the web for tips on creating characters, learning spells, fighting, etc. There are also a number of walkthroughs available online in case you really get stuck. I print them out and keep them handy, but try not to look at them too much. Much of the fun is in the discovery.
As far as how well it works on the Mac, I've had no trouble whatsoever, and the fact that the game is a bit old at this point just means you don't need the latest and greatest hardware to run it. Load times for the different areas can be a bit long at times, though.
To sum up, the game is HUGE and has an interesting story, along with more quests than you would ever want, so if you are into RPG's, or think you might want to give one a try, I wholeheartedly recommend this one.

The game is slow in more than one way

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: November 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After playing a lot of Diablo II, I was looking for something that might require a bit more strategy and skill. (I used to play lots of RPGs.) While you will find this in Balder's Gate II, I found the pace of the game very slow. Perhaps Diablo II has conditioned me to expect a faster paced RPG. Just be forewarned. Also, Balder's Gate II was supposed to address some of the player's complaints about the slow pace of Balder's Gate I, but little has changed with Balder's Gate II.

Note, I've been playing Balder's Gate II with OSX 10.1.1 on a G4-450 with 384 MB of RAM and a 32 MB Radeon. The game is very sluggish, even when reducing the game resolution, etc.

Nice, but slow in OSX

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had this for the PC, but when I got a PowerBook G4 550 to carry when I travel, I decided to get the Mac version of BGII. I was looking forward to a game which claimed to be able to run under OSX instead of having to boot into OS9, but under OSX, the multiplayer game is so slow it's unbearable...the mouse is jerky and the players walk pretty slowly. Under OS9 with the same settings, but running the OS9 version, it ran perfectly.

Other than that, the other reviews probably cover the gameplay...

Not made for X

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibe, although it's game-play is a little slower than Diablo II, the story is rich and you have many choices, but be warned! When you play this USE OS9, NOT OSX. On OSX the movements become choppy and can slow down because this game was made for 9, not X.

Oh my God, the king of all games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is my undisputed favorite game ever. A little frustrating at the beginning. However, once you get out of the initial dungeon, the fun begins. You play in a vast city where you are able to do what you want when you want. There is absolutely no order that you must quest in. You go from district to district picking up different quests and growing levels as you gain new powers. What you do effects your future in the game and each class has his or her own spicific questline. For example, if you are a rogue, you can join the ranks of the crime organization known as the shadow thieves and eventually become the leader of the chapter. If you are a wizard or sorcerer, you can take work in the wizard's guild and go on to own your own lab. If you are a cleric, you can join your church and become a minister. The list goes on and on. Although the game does eventually end, you can start the game over again with your same character at the same level so you can progress to yout max power. Greatest game ever.

Perhaps the best Mac RPG ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dating back to the original Wizardry, Ultima III, and Might & Magic, RPGs have been my favorite Mac games since the beginning.

The original Baldur's Gate was a wonderful blend of strong storytelling, good old fashioned character advancement and party management, and unique, developed non-player characters. The sheer depth of the world was stunning, not to mention all the side quests culminating into the main driving story. It was a hard game to top.

Baldur's Gate II has clearly been able to do just that. The graphics are substantially better, the NPCs are even more developed -- including more interaction with your main protagonist -- and the world has that same sense of vastness and wonder. The game picks up soon after the original, but someone who hasn't played BG1 easily can get caught up to speed and dive right in. Jaheira, Minsc, and Imoen are just a few of the returning NPCs, and everyone has more more substance and the way you treat/respond to them has long-standing effects.

One of the best things about BG2 is that it is faster and more stable than BG1. As good as the original was, it tended to be buggy and load/save times were slow (at least on my G4). BG2 is faster in all respects and much more stable.

This is definitely a must-have for any RPG fans, and game fans in general. It uses all the most recent D&D rules, including 'new' classes such as monk and sorceror. I can't remember the last time I was this hooked on a game.

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