Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

I can't say more than already was told about this game. BG 2 is great

I feel this is a great updated version of the original as well as the Enhanced Edition. I am glad that Beamdog is updating the games, this goes for the first one, as they go and fixing bugs and glitches as well as adding to the games. While I do appreciate the originals for what they did for the CRPG genre, this is how I prefer to play the games. I highly recommend this.

a great game

The game has been updated and is very enjoyable. Haven't experienced any crashes or other bugs.

There are two reasons to buy this: 1) You've never played Baldur's Gate 2 2) You played it years ago and want to play it again. For those in the first group Baldur's Gate II is a fun party-based D&D RPG with many improvements over the 1st one, mainly that there's a lot more interaction with and between NPC's then in Baldur's Gate. It still doesn't have as much dialogue and nuance as something like Planescape: Torment, but it's not just a hack-and-slash RPG like Diablo or other games in that model. It was the precursor for so many other party-based RPG games (like Knights of the Old Republic) that follow a similar model. If you have the time and haven't played it then play it. For both groups you're then wondering if this edition is worth it, and yes it is. It's not that expensive (Yes, it's $20. Figure out how many hours of entertainment you're going to have with this relative to other uses for $20.) The bugs the old reviews talk about were all fixed long ago and this edition adds a new class (Shamen), some new kits, and some new NPC's. I can't think of any reason to get this version over the original other than to save a tiny amount of money. If you like mods, most of the older mods have now been updated to work with the Enhanced Edition (which wasn't the case when some of the older reviews complaining about this were written, as updating mods takes time), and if you have this version you won't have to install a ton of mods just to make it run well in the first place (as this edition already incorporates them). They had a couple of new graphics options I didn't like, but all you have to do is turn them off in the graphics settings.