Even more monster types will engage in real-time battles using the same overhead perspective as witnessed in the original game. Using the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules set, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II features four new acts of hack-and-slash combat and powerful spell casting. Five new character types vow to stop whoever or whatever is behind this new alliance, no matter what the cost. Yet the harbor town of Baldur's Gate is still very much part of a heinous plot to control the Forgotten Realms. The mysterious disappearance of the Onyx Tower and death of Eldrith the Betrayer had left the noble heroes trapped in an unknown setting. It’ll be $29.99 when it launches, so we’ll definitely be paying a bit of premium for this trip down memory lane, especially when you consider that the game has mostly been left untouched in this jump to modern platforms.This sequel to the hit 2002 action role-playing game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe picks up right where the original left off.
Those of you on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch don’t have long to wait for Dark Alliance to arrive, as it’ll be launching tomorrow, May 7th, with news about the PC and mobile release coming at a later date. With this re-release, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is coming to PC for the first time, but unfortunately, those of us on PC (and mobile) will have to wait until a later date to play it. The visuals depicted in the trailer are very clearly old school graphics, and IGN’s article makes it clear that this is simply a re-release with support for higher resolutions, not a remaster or a remake.īaldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is something of anomaly among action RPGs, because it’s one of the few that was a console-only title. It seems to be a relatively bare-bones re-release, though it does support up to 4K resolution to make it play nice with modern day consoles.Īside from that support for widescreen resolutions, don’t expect anything in the way of graphics or gameplay updates. The game was revealed by way of a new trailer that was published by IGN, which also has a few sparse details about it as well. Today, Interplay, Black Isle, and Wizards of the Coast announced a re-release of the original Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance title.
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