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Baldur's Gate 2 and BioWare Praise at GameSpot

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, Mar 30, 2006.

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    Actually, BIS gets some too, if indirectly, for the Icewind Dale saga and Planescape: Torment. The game itself, Baldur's Gate 2, is presented as one of the greatest games of all times:

    No one can deny BioWare's pedigree as a developer of superb RPGs. Between the Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, BioWare has been steadily reimagining the way gamers interact with their RPGs and the characters within. Arguably its finest achievement, however, was the Infinity engine, which powered the Baldur's Gate games, as well as the Icewind Dale series and Planescape: Torment. While plenty of games had included an isometric perspective before Baldur's Gate, the Infinity engine managed to accomplish the seemingly impossible feat of taking TSR's turn-based Advanced Dungeons & Dragons gaming system and rendering it in real-time gameplay, while remaining mostly faithful to the underlying mechanics. Thanks to the artificial intelligence scripts that you could outfit your characters with and the pause-anytime command system (which let you freeze combat to adapt to a changing situation or override a script by issuing a new command to your party members), the Infinity engine was--if somewhat off-putting to D&D and turn-based gaming purists--immediately accessible to a wide audience that liked its games to have a bit more action and a bit less waiting.

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    chevalier, Mar 30, 2006
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