If you don't have time and want to quickly check out this game, just play Mask of The Betrayer, its amazing!

The controls and camera suck for the base game even if the story involves some interesting decisions. However the expansions developed by Obsidian handle excellently, and Mask of the Betrayer is a truly interesting campaign you can skip straight to.

I enjoyed this game, even the original campaign which apparently a lot of people hated (though at first I thought all the companions were really annoying). Bugs were my main problem. There were just so many of them. When I thought I'd seen them all, another would emerge. For the most part, it was nothing major, but I did have to reload a few times or go hunting on Google for a solution. So, if you want to buy this game, I'd say save often (like, twice as often as you usually do) because you probably WILL have to reload to an earlier save because of some bug, and it probably WILL be super inconvenient for you. And don't buy it if bugs make you very angry.

This is a classic and I don't think I need to describe it to anybody. In simple terms, it's the smoother, more action oriented and, frankly, easier, sibling to all them Baldur's Gates and Icewind Dales. Still plenty of story, great characters and fun dialogue to go around but you won't get as bogged down by the game wanting you to fail and start again. What you truly need to know about this edition is that it corrects most of the bugs and inconsistencies of the original release, which allowed me to finally finish the game (I stopped playing back then when I encountered a bug where I permanently lost control over one of the characters). A lot of things that simply didn't work back then now do. You also get to experience some things that weren't fully implemented in the original. That said, the wikis tracking all the loose ends from the original's code suggest that more could have been done. Overall a pretty sweet deal though. Oh, and you get all the expansions, though to me they feel tacked on, depsite the first one allowing you to use your caracter from the original campaign.

Regardless of your thoughts on the other campaigns, MOTB alone makes this is worth it and provided a great experience narrative wise, akin to KotOR II TSL, it's Obsidian doing what they do best and I would say if you're looking for more engaging writing you'll find the expansion worth your time.