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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist." -Plutarch

Though Sarevok is dead and his plan for war averted, peace eludes the citizens of Baldur's Gate. A crusade marches from the north, seizing supplies, forcing locals into military service, and disrupting trade along the Sword Coast. A charismatic warrior known as the Shining Lady leads this army, her background shrouded in mystery. Can the rumors be true—is she, like you, the child of a god?

The closer you get to the Shining Lady, the more you realize your father, the dead Lord of Murder still casts a long shadow upon your path. Baldur's Gate has put its faith in you, but you must determine whose interests you truly serve before you face the Shining Lady among the ruins of Dragonspear Castle...

Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear adds a new chapter to the Bhaalspawn saga. The events occurring between Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II are at last revealed in this 25-hour expansion pack for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Key Features

- Expand Your Story: Explore new areas, fight new monsters, and win new rewards in the Siege of Dragonspear expansion to Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. Continue the adventure by exporting your game to Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition
- The Crusade Rises: A sharp and subtle adventure that pits you against an enigmatic new foe
- Explore the Sword Coast: Venture through vibrant new hand-painted areas in the classic style of the original Baldur’s Gate
- Gather Your Party: The original cast returns to kick butt for goodness - along with Neera, Rasaad, Dorn, and four new additions!
- To Infinity and Beyond: Updated UI and improved Infinity Engine features
- Extra Class: New items, quests, and a new class: the spirit-calling shaman!
- Venture Forth With A Friend: Functional, extensively tested cross-platform multiplayer on all supported platforms
- Story Mode: A difficulty setting to allow players to experience all of the story with none of the Game Over screens

Looks interesting and more of the big guy is a great thing.

That means that you need to own the Enhanced Edition in order to play it. Eh... was it so hard to make it standalone?

Playing more Baldur's Gate is never a bad thing

Yeah, they should go the Dragonfall way if they want to arouse a greater interest in it. If I'll have to buy and replay Baldur's Gate for it, I'll skip it (already did that for Tales of the Sword Coast).

So its enhanced (and I use that term very liberally) only. Marvelous, fuck all those people who have supported BG and iwd over the years. The six different versions of bg I have for instance. Its not much that gets me angry but this obvious money grab by beamdog is one of them.

I doubt i am getting this. I already played both editions, original and enhanced... Enhanced i did not like, not completely, but by a large portion, especially the removal of exploits and overpowered spells. I bothered to beat/finish only the originals and those, twice. If gog hadn't brought the enhanced editions in, i most probably would have never purchased them, in the first place. I got them only to support gog for expanding its library and for succeeding in bringing us more modern and recent games; that and upon arrival, they had been a package on discount.

This one? Not standalone? Filler saga/episode? Hmmm, well, no thanks. I might as well replay through the originals, one more time and all... Still, if on gog, if on a discount, i might get it into the faraway future, perhaps.

Out of curiousity, were any of the story additions Beamdog made to the Enhanced Editions any good?
How exactly is their output in terms of game story?

Is this the new game they were working on between the BG games? More BG might seem like a good thing but Beamdog hasn't added the best of content thus far.

This is interesting. I had thought that BG was rather dead. When did Beamdog (who are they?) pick it up? And what else is in the enhanced editions?

Surprised they were able to pull this off.

Clearly I'm a bit ignorant about the interplay between *ahem ;) * Interplay, Bioware and Black Isle - I'm sure I would have known better twenty odd years ago but I'm surprised it was these guys who ended up with the rights (or at least lore) to BG. Good luck to them.

New life in an ancient game. Thats cool.

"Though Sarevok is dead and his plan.. [...]"

Great move! Spoil the whole game to people who haven't played yet! That's the way! :D

* Of course i'm not reffering to you gogamess. ;-)

It's a 17 years-old game. I think it's OK to spoil it now.

Myself, I can't wait for this expansion.

I don't agree with this; My view is that age has nothing to do with whether you can spoil a story or not. It may be 17 years old as you say, but for someone who haven't played yet it doesn't matter; the game is new to him / her.

The "A Game of Thrones" book from the "A Song of Fire & Ice" series written by George R. R. Martin, is nearly 20 years old by now. Would it be OK to start spoiling the story & the events? I don't think so, especially since it is very popular nowadays, due to the (excellent in my opinion) TV series.

What do you think?