Baldur's Gate DVD
by Black Isle Studios

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Product Summary

• PC Gamer (1-year)
• Baldur's Gate Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames Strategy Guides)

Video Game Reviews of Baldur's Gate DVD

Customer Review: Great game! Even better merchant!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Description of Baldur's Gate DVD

You begin the game as a young orphan living with your stepfather within the safe confines of a scholarly community. It is a happy and idyllic life until your stepfather is killed and it becomes clear that you are intended to be next. You, as the young protagonist, then set out to discover just what kind of a mess you're in. During the adventure, you recruit a number of personable allies, battle foes, delve into dungeons, trek across wilderness, solve puzzles, and complete a plethora of epic quests that are seamlessly sown into the fabric of the overall plot. The story line unfolds in response to your choices to reveal your character's true identity as well as the nature and motive of your enemies.

If the Lord himself were to ask me what games he should have in his home game collection, the first two words out of my mouth would be Baldur's Gate. This 1998 Role-Playing Game of the Year is a masterpiece and the standard by which all such games will be judged for the foreseeable future. Groundbreaking 32-bit graphics, 3-D sound, multiplayer options, and a friendly real-time game engine are blended with a depth of plot in a way that redefines the genre. --Joshua B. Coombs

Pros:

• Versatile and responsive plot
• Entertaining character interaction
• Huge game world
• Friendly game engine

• Nonplayer characters exhibit little free will

What's worse, trading caravans coming from all directions into Baldur's Gate are under constant attack from bandits and cutthroats who loot not for gold and gems (although they often take those, too), but for iron. The armed factions in Baldur's Gate can scarcely keep themselves equipped, and the commoners are suffering as well. Without iron, they cannot mend their tools or purchase plows, which means they cannot farm or make crafts. When winter arrives, they will surely starve.

Some blame Amn for the chaos, others the trading cartels, and still others suspect the Dukes of Baldur's Gate. Yet, this contagion may be an early omen of some greater evil....

The player begins the game with one character. This character can be generated using any of the races, classes, and alignments allowed by Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Up to five other adventurers may join the central character as the epic quest to save the world continues.

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