For the most part it plays like the original. I only have two issues. 1. the old cheat (yes I said cheat) during character creation of buying potions for 60 points, save class, exit game, load class and sell potions pack for 600 points no longer works. 2. playing on a laptop my F1-12 keys are dual function so casting mapped spells is challenging wish they had coded a remap option of the F keys to the number row for the sake of the laptop gamer that did not exist during this games original release.