To the guy complaining this is EA tactics. The game is 10 bucks. They balanced the game around their expansion what a surprise. It's honestly pathetic to compare this game to EA. The game is great. Buy it.
All of these 1 star reviews at the top are old and outdated. I played the game on release and never had issues crashing. I just recently played it again and had no issues crashing, also a majority of the games mods are functioning now if you're using BWS. I don't understand how people can be complaining about the graphics. If you've played the EE versions of the game, it looks exactly the same. The game itself is great. It has a good story that connects the first and second game. The voice acting is for the most part very good and there is more voice acting in this game than there is in the older ones. The tweaks they did to the engine that allows for tons of units to be on screen is pretty awesome and fun to see in the BG series. I will say that at one point in the game from multiple playthroughs that the engine gets a little laggy and starts to drop frames and yes it's a problem with the engine/game. Outside of the singular instance in the game I did not have any issues. The real criticism that this game DESERVES to have is quest design. The original games did a great job of making quest progression and side quests seem like a random part of the world or had some mystique to it. The quests in SOD feel very forced and mechanical. There is no real world exploration and the game does not allow you to immerse yourself on your own volition. Each area has a quest hub, you grab all the quests, do the quests, then proceed to the next area. It is very linear in this sense. The quests are still great have substance, it's just primarily the design on how you get the quests that is very breaking of the immersion of the world. The game would have gotten 5 starts from me if the quest design was implemented more fluidly and allowed for more world exploration. There is no reason why this game deserves less than 2 stars like so many of the reviews on this website show. It is a great addition to the series.
