Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2

THE GOOD:
upgraded graphics and longer storyline. more characters, weapons, and techniques. areas are larger, and can be explored more, and the camera positioning improved

THE BAD:
no imported characters from da1 and storyline not as deep. character techniques not as good (what happened to bull rush?)

SUMMARY:
this game is hard and the stroyline is long and tedious. bummer that the old characters could not make it, but the new characters are a big improvement. Other features that i thought were nice were the enchanted items that you can now make yourself, and two weapon handling. this game has more bosses than before and more than twice the enemies, but the first game had better weapons to fight them with. overall a good rental game. definitly don't buy. Once you have beaten this game, it will become obsolete.