Enhanced - Developer: Overhaul | Release Date: 2013 | Systems: Win, OS X, iPad, Android, iPhone, Linux, Switch, PS4, XBOne Original Game - Developer: BioWare | Release Date: 2000 | Systems: Win

This week on, I'm playing theof the gigantic. This one's a titan of RPGs, an absolute classic, and very similar to the original Baldur's Gate ... which I've already written about. In fact you might be wondering why I'd spend so much time trying to play and then summarise something so massive and complex (and yet also so well known) when I've basically done it already, but it's too late for you to talk me out of it.was BioWare's fourth title, after mech action game, and misc action game, and this is the point where they cast away all distractions to fully devote themselves to the RPG genre. But they only make blockbuster AAA titles these days, so Beamdog (their Overhaul Games division to be precise) got to be the ones to update this game for modern systems 13 years later. They updated theexpansion as well, and even threw in a bonus battle arena called(which I'm not gonna play).Theapparently sold well enough, as a few years later Beamdog also got to make a new expansion for the first, calledwhich fills you in what happened to your hero in the time skip between the two games. Sois now following on from content made 16 years after it. You can import your character from that expansion into this and start off way overleveled... by like 2 levels (can be incredibly stingy with the level ups it seems).I never played pen and paperand I haven't read anybooks, so I'll have no idea how faithfulis to the lore and gameplay. I have played a few of the videogames before though... including this one. In fact it was probably my firstgame afterand I completely bounced off it the first time I installed it because I had no bloody idea what I was doing. I don't even think I knew I was supposed to rest occasionally. But then I gave it a second go later and made real progress. Tons of progress. I didn't actually beat the bloody game though and it's been tormenting me ever since.I'm thinking that I got about two thirds of the way through on my last time, but it's a bloody long game so I'm not really sure. All I know is that it's going to take more than the first hour to really get an idea of how it plays, but I'll try to skip through without really spoiling anything beyond the prologue. Expect lots of zoomed out images of tactical combat and beautiful shots of menu screens.