You move your characters about with a simple point-and-click system similar to a real-time strategy game. The action is viewed from a slightly skewed top-down perspective, and every background is hand-crafted, so the level of detail is astonishing.
As you travel, you can let five more characters join your party, for a total of six adventurers. You’ll run into hundreds of NPCs, some of which are friendly and will join your party and others that will try to kill you outright. From this rather auspicious beginning, you depart on an adventure that will take you along most of the realm. By exploring the city, you’ll run across several simple quests and fights that will prepare you for the big, bad world just outside the city gates. All you know at this stage is that your foster father, Gorion, wants you to outfit yourself for a journey, and then meet with him at the center of town. Once you’ve built your character, the game proper begins with you standing outside an inn in the scholastic city of Candlekeep. Even at this pre-game stage, plenty of thoughtful touches are evident – you can customize your character even further by importing a custom-built picture for his/her on-screen portrait, and even import your own dialog (saved as simple WAV files). You start off by creating your main character – you choose gender, race, profession, weapon proficiencies and moral alignment. The game follows the AD&D rules as closely as you could hope for.
Set in the Forgotten Realms universe, Baldur’s Gate will astound even the most fanatical role player with its attention to detail, character development, storylines, combat and overwhelmingly vast game world. Remember the first time you played a roleplaying game, tabletop or otherwise, that drew you into a world so vast that your brain lost contact with the outside world, being utterly engrossed in the story before you? It’s rare that any game can garner that sort of dedication from unsuspecting players, but BioWare’s highly acclaimed Baldur’s Gate can pull this neat trick off quite easily once you get into it. Let’s Party! The game’s party system at work.
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