The story centers around your character that wakes up as a cyborg in an unknown facility and you try to find out your past and why you were transformed into a human-machine hybrid. The graphics are like Alone in the Dark, using a 3D engine and of course it looks aged, while Crusader is still pleasing, Bioforge looks very dated and downright ugly at times. The sound design still holds up but the voice acting is spotty and awkward but the enviromental sounds are great to listen to and evokes a great atmosphere. The writing is Origin's usual: very well writen and keeps you guessing until the end with some unexpected twists and turns along the way. What the games fails to deliver is a good gameplay. The controls are one of the most awkward and clunky that I've ever played. It utilizes "tank controls" like Resident Evil or Alone in the Dark with fixed camera angles but the combat is the worst aspect of the game, it's very stiff and hard to to the moves and the camera doesn't help either.One innovative aspect of the game is the interactive enviroments, which adds immersion factor and makes some battles interesting because you need to use the enviroment to win. Overall, Bioforge is a mixed bag. It has a really good story and a innovative way of telling it accompanied by a excelent sound design, the graphics are dated and the stiff gameplay don't help. I recommend this game only if you want to know some of Origins less known titles.
Baldur's Gate is the first RPG game from the legendary studio Bioware. It utilizes the rules from the 2nd edition of Dungeons and Dragons and tranlates them very well to the PC. The story begins with your character in Candlekeep, in the Sword Coast of Faerun, after your foster father Gorion told you to prepare for a journey without giving you any clues to why and then you stumble in some conspiracy about the quality of the iron in the region. it's a somewhat simple story but it has it's high points and it hits them perfectly and the plot is well paced. The graphics is a mix of sprites with hand colored background with CG for more complex things like statues and the such and it's very pleasing to the eye. Same should be said about the sound design in general, the soundtrack evoques the feeling of an epic adventure with some great voice acting. The gameplay is simple with some great dephts to it, with real time with pause for the combat, and the D&D rules are,as mentioned above,very well translated in the game. But BG has some very glaring flaws and shows signs of age, for starters the UI is very clunky, the game can get somewhat monotonous after a while and there's balancing issues especially with mages. Overall, Baldur's Gate is one of the best buys here on GOG and even though there's several flaws with it, you should pick it up because it's a important piece of gaming history and the start of Bioware in the RPG business.
I have the original CD. this game,took MoO 2 and killed it. i will quote Spoony on this:"BETRAYAL".it has nothing to do with master of orion.don't waste your money on it
