Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2

THE GOOD:
Excellent Diablo style (rpg+action) gameplay lots of spells,worlds and weapons over 40 hours of gameplay. Side quests, 2 player co-op! great graphics.

THE BAD:
No online, no third person camera and you cant create your own character, it looks a lot like the first (so what? xbox didnt had it) some char voices are a joke

SUMMARY:
Dark Alliance 2 is exactly what I ever wished in an RPG real time action, 3d cameras, a mapping system 2 player co-op, lots of scenarios, lots of weapons, lots of variety and lots of gameplay! is basically Diablo 2 in 3d with co-op action. You start by selecting an interesting pregenerated character of your choice, which can be a rogue, priest, necro mancer ,barbarian,etc while it may seem some char may have advantage over others they are pretty well balanced and designed, priests have the ability to heal themselves and shield attacks, necromancers can summon a skeleton and use dark magic, barbarians and...

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.

THE GOOD:
Competes on the same lines of BG DA. New enemies, better NPC characters, and graphics. Nice options to mod weapons, armor, and spells.

THE BAD:
still a hack-&-slash, very linear (little freedom), and weird cam angles

SUMMARY:
3/5, why? because its been done to death; BA DA, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, and Heroes Might and Magic have all the same traits, and faults. What sets this apart is the fact that you can Mod. your weapons, armor, and change your spells to what you wish (with a cost.. of course!) The new NPC's are fun, and look great! the graphics are a step above the previous version, and allow for some very detailed maps. The voice acting is nice, and gives you a break from reading all the text from similar titles. The export feature is nice, allowing you to export a character to make use of him/her in another game (gave me a better chance of survival) when importing a character, you can start from the beginning and carry the...