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You can even face defections if your actions aren't somewhat in line with party members' philosophies. Alignment is a vital concern: mix good and evil in the party for long and adventurers eventually come to blows. The plot driving the swords-and-sorcery derring-do is far from gripping, the game instead focusing on your relationships with party members-a diverse and relatable group of individuals with different personalities and motives. Most of the changes have long been available via mods.įortunately, the core game (along with the 1999 expansion pack Tales of the Sword Coast, also rolled into the mix here) remains strong after more than a decade, and is a deep, incredibly engrossing role-playing game. And to make matters worse, the game arrived loaded with bugs and remains shaky even after a few patches.

But it doesn't add anything of real value to the experience aside from interface and graphical tweaks long available to the original game through free mods, along with largely forgettable new content in a trio of potential party members and an arena combat mode. Yes, this revamped and pumped-up take on the 1998 Dungeons & Dragons classic from BioWare is just as compelling and hard to put down as the 14-year-old forebear that became a gold standard for role-playing games. With that in mind, it is hard to view Overhaul Games' Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition as anything but a disappointment. You go into it looking for something extra, an improvement over the original plain-Jane version that you can see and feel.

Calling a game 'enhanced' justifiably raises expectations.

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