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"柏德之門" -- Traditional Chinese spelling

"博德之门" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

"Ворота Бальдура" -- Russian spelling

"Wrota Baldura" -- Polish title

"Puerta de Baldur" -- Spanish title

"Forgotten Realms : Iron Throne" -- Early working title

"Bode zhi Men" -- Simplified Chinese title

"Battleground Infinity" -- Working title

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Topic # Posts Last Post Remake 1 Patrick Bregger (252095)

Jun 06, 2013

Trivia

Cancelled Dreamcast and PlayStation ports

Drizzt Do'Urden

German version

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Narrator (Spoiler!)

Novel

Remake

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Awards

Computer Gaming World April 1999 (Issue #177) – Best RPG of the Year

GameSpy 2001 – #36 Top Game of All Time

GameStar (Germany) Issue 12/1999 - #31 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking

Origin 1998 - Best Role-Playing Computer Game

PC Gamer April 2000 - #9 in the "Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games" poll April 2005 - #11 in the "50 Best Games of All Time" list

PC Player (Germany) Issue 01/2000 - Best RPG in 1999

Power Play Issue 02/1999 – Best Isometric RPG in 1998

Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland< 1999 - Gold Award



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Candlekeep is an ancient fortress situated on the rural Sword Coast. Recently, inexplicable events have been plaguing this quiet place, which has long become a large library where men of wisdom and knowledge can study in peace. Unknown mercenaries try to enter the walls of Candlekeep, interested in a seemingly ordinary and unimportant young person - an orphan who was taken in by the mage Gorion and treated by him as his own child. One night, Gorion decides to leave Candlekeep and take his adopted child to a safe place. However, as they leave the fortress, they are ambushed by a group of assassins. The orphan manages to escape, but Gorion dies in battle.The gates of Candlekeep are locked, because its inhabitants are afraid to attract to themselves the wrath of the mysterious attackers. Only Imoen, another child who was brought up by Gorion and has been like a sister to the protagonist, is willing to share the uncertain future. The two have nothing, no place to call their home, only a wide hostile world in front of them. A long and perilous journey begins there.is a role-playing game that uses the rule set of(AD&D). Set in the universe of Forgotten Realms, the game is the first part of the saga that lets the player explore various towns, wilderness areas and dungeons, undertake many side quests, and find companions for the long journey. The player creates the hero(ine) by selecting his or her class, choosing between fighter, thief, mage, priest, ranger, and druid (including sub-classes, dual- and multi-class characters); alignment (Good-Evil and Lawful-Chaotic axis), and weapon proficiencies. The 2nd edition AD&D rules are applied in the game during combat, character leveling, class restrictions, etc.Up to six player-controlled characters can participate in combat. Battles occur in the same environment as exploration, and flow in real time, though the player is able to pause combat at any time to issue precise commands to any of the characters. Once the game is unpaused, the characters repeat the last action selected by the player until it is changed or becomes impossible to execute. Characters can freely move during battles; party formation and positioning in combat play a significant role.A Playstation 5-disc version was revealed to be in the works by Interplay on October 25, 1999. It was to be ported by UK developer Runecraft but on March 29, 2000 it was put "on hold" and never saw the light of day. Howewer, years later a nearly finished and working prototype was found and "leaked" to the net by an anonymous collector.A Dreamcast port was also in the works during that time, but was dropped by SEGA for an unspecified reason in 2000.Though he appears only once in the game, the legendary Drizzt Do'Urden makes a brief but sweet (and rewarding) guest appearance in a certain part of the game. Drizzt is a very famous D&D character that sprung from the Dark Elf Trilogy of forgotten realms-based novels by R.A. Salvatore.In the German version all blood and splatter animations were removed.Visit the cemetery in one of the towns, and you'll be able to read many funny inscriptions on the graves. An example: "Here lies an atheist, all dressed up, and no place to go".The same person voices Sarevok (the hero's main adversary) and the narrator in the game. This might be a coincidence, but in Icewind Dale , another AD&D game by Black Isle, the ultimate evil and narrator are done by the same person again, and in that game it's a plot point. Wizards of the Coast published a novelization of this game in 1999, written by Forgotten Realms series editor Philip Athans A fan-made remake calledwas released as mod for Neverwinter Nights 2 in June 2013.In 1999,has won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.