Those who played the original Dark Alliance will be happy to know that there are no jumping puzzles and that the tweaked ranged combat system now makes archery a worthwile way to fight. It gets repetitive at times, especially toward the end of the game, but fighting new monsters in each area keeps things fresh and there are some surprises, mostly in the early levels, that prevent your quests from becoming mundane. In addition, players can now create their own unique weapons, armor, and jewelry by enhacing exceptional items with gems found out in the field at a workshop.įor those who didn't play the original Dark Alliance, gameplay goes something like this: talk to someone until you get a quest, go to the quest location and kill everything that tries to kill you, go back and get your reward, use your reward to buy new weapons or upgrade the ones you already have. The game is still largely linear in nature, but there are chances for each playable character there are five in the sequel to branch off from the main path and take on personal quests. You'll go about doing this pretty much the same way you went about it in Dark Alliance, except this time you won't have to buy arrows.Īlthough the hack and slash mentality of the original game was left intact, Black Isle did made some good attempts at offering a broader RPG experience this time around. Truthfully, though, the elements from the earlier story could have been left out entirely, as the plot is pretty much the same: an evil person threatens Baldur's Gate with a tower that can create doors to other planes and you have to stop that person and destroy the tower. The story is set shortly after the events of the first and involves the rescue of its three heros from a vampire named Mordoc. It's not so much a sequel as it is a version 2.0 a polished revision of a pretty good first draft. Luckily, with Dark Alliance II, the wizards at Black Isle were able to tweak the engine just enough to keep things fresh, but not so much as to lose the flavor of the highly successful original game.ĭark Alliance II is the game that Dark Alliance should have been. Having recenty reviewed both the original Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, I was a little concerned that my review of Dark Alliance II might become biased due to Dark Alliance Engine Burnout.
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