Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal

Full of adventure, action, intrigue and suspense. You will be required to use your brain, and your strategic fighting skills to survive the course before you. But it is quite an amazing and enjoyable venture.

A fitting completion to the Baldur's Gate "trilogy," but was slightly disappointing to this reviewer due to the shorter amount of playing time available for the main game itself (around 25-30 hours).

Add in an epic conclusion to a huge story, new features, and perfect presentation and you get one of the best role-playing experiences that you can ask for.

This isn't some short, slapped-together final chapter, but a full-fledged game of its own. Clocking in at around 40 to 50 hours, Throne Of Bhaal is easily longer than most other stand-alone RPGs.

In some ways it's even superior to Baldur's Gate II. It's filled with high adventure, epic battles, and plenty of surprises, and it's got a good cast, a good story, and more of all the elements that have made the series successful.

Another great addition to the series. It's a little more geared towards the magic-lover.

I just can't help thinking that the "Final Chapter" should have had a little more to it.

The conclusion to the Baldurs Gate saga. It was planned as Baldurs Gate 3 but was cut short to an (still really big) add on. There is a lot of content and the most important thing is that it gives a truly satisfying conclusion. After Mass Effect 3 this is something that must be mentioned for Bioware games even if no game from Bioware before that struggled in this regard. The story continues a short time after the events of Baldurs Gate 2 in Suldannessalar as 5 powerful Bhaalspawn are killing all others bringing chaos, war and misery to the lands. Your playercharacter which you can import from Baldurs Gate 2 or create is going to a holy place of the elves to get answers from an oracle. Here the story starts. It is an epic conclusion as the whole world holds it breath to wait for the results and even the gods were watching the events without interference with mayor interest. The story has its great moments but you see that it was cut a bit short in some areas. Sounds maybe too negative as I fully enjoyed it. There will be huge revelations and open questions will be answered during the game. I like that you import also your decisions as romances and arcs for your partymebers are continued. The strength of all Baldurs Gate games are the excellent characters and you have the full rooster of Baldurs Gate 2 available except one certain character and the addition of one new character I wont spoil. These single new character was an amazing and bold choice that improved the game if you want or even dare to recruit him (To good to not do it gameplay and roleplaywise for me;-).. Again your party members will comment on actions or have conversations with each other. There might be even some changing events for some;-). There are some new NPC characters that I enjoyed and you can even meet Volo. It adds also the Watchers Keep which is a large remarkable Dungeon full of puzzles, fights, decisions and opportunities that can be accessed even as early as in Baldurs Gate 2 if you start a new playtrough. It has an interesting storyline and is challenging, I should also mention that you can upgrade weapons and armor from Baldurs Gate 2 if you get certain items. Gameplaywise there are some additions like legendary abilities. Most of them are truly awesome with some exceptions. For example: The thief's ability to wear all equipment is game-breaking as it overrides even class restrictions. A Thief / Kensai or Thief / Mage combination is truly terrifying with this. There are also some new spells, a few updates and a higher level cap. I must say it is a huge add on as it took me a while to finish it (Like I already mentioned it was planned as full game). The new antagonists work well but I think they could be a bit more fleshed out. Overall this is an epic conclusion that left me satisfied. The meaningful endings are a great closure to the saga and I still remember the epilogues for my character and patrymembers. From all videogames the Baldurs Gate games have my favorite cast of memorable characters. They were immersive and I cared a lot for them. I could never abandon for example Imoen in Baldurs Gate 2, I just always pick Edwin for the Edwina part and have fond memories of the other character. Simply a prime example how to make a good saga with a satisfying conclusion.

This is a good conclusion to the series, but only good. Compared to the other part of the "trilogy" throne of Bhaal is like a boss rush expansion for the base game. Sure, there are some epic fights with demigods to finally end the chaos in Faerun, but you are fighting one of them after another with a little story between the encounters. The problem is, that the combat mechanics are not that good to not make it tiring in the end.

As said before, too much combat. And the combat is too difficult; playing your mages etc. well requires an amount of planning and thinking that borders on work, not play. I played on normal setting.

It is really a rushed up garbage. The story is meh and predictable. The fights are just boring slop with tons of spawning enemies thrown at you. DnD isn't good for high-level combat and it shows. The pocket dimension is a stupid gimmick and kills vibes. I don't understand why this trash was so highly praised. And the most important thing - the story of Baldur's Gate 2 was completed. There was nothing to add to it thus this expansion feels just wrong.

Як ця параша отримала такі оцінки? Вона ж майже у всьому, крім історії, гірше зроблена не тільки в порівнянні з оригінальною грою, а й навіть з першою частиною. Квести смокчуть, нескінченні бої дратують. Сальнік би не одобрив. Я хз, як пройти це на максимальній складності. Це ріл параша.