Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

I had first played "Baldur's Gate" in the early 2000's and thoroughly enjoyed it. This re-issue is simply superb. First, the game itself is super-stable and runs perfectly on Windows 11. The character/team creation class/kit options are deep, limitless in their possibilities and offer immense replay value. I spent hours on the Baldur's Gate wiki learning about all of the different character races and class/kit options, so I could create an interesting and powerful team. The game itself is immersive, satisfying and still hugely fun to play. This game is considered a classic RPG, and, with good reason. The story is great. sound effects and voice-acting are first-rate. Battles can be fought with different tactics. Want to plunge through enemy hordes as a fighter brute? Prefer magical attacks? Or, want to use thief sneak attacks? You can do it all. This is one of the best PC RPG gaming experienced of all time. Buy it, play it and enjoy it.

Still just one of the best rpg-experiences. Over and over and over again.

For a remake of one of my favorite games, I'm not satisfied. The game itself, well OK, it's still as good. But I was expecting three things for this version: - keep the game wonderful (this one is OK... mostly) - better graphics -native linux support - well, maybe a fourth, some bug fixes and enhancements The graphics don't actually seem to be better that the original ones, like for BGEE (probably easier to seem better for this older game). No really visible enhancement on my 1920x1080 screen (I didn't even test it on my bigger resolution screen). BUT there is a real catch! The game lost the french localization! (and many others it seems). So it doesn't actually do "at least as good", that's a major regression.

Is this the best CRPG ever made or is that pure hyperbole? Well, a little of both. It's hard to say it is the best when so many other amazing CRPGs exist. This Enhanced Edition version of the game is a solid update from the original and worth consideration. All of the EE versions of the old Black Isle infinity engine are well done I could waste 1k words telling you about it, but I don't need to. It's great and if you like CRPGs this is among the best

The original BG2 game has been removed from the store, meaning that now, if you want the original game, you are forced to buy this Enhanced Edition by Beamdog. Why do they do this? Because otherwise nobody would buy this "enhanced" thing! Beamdog's version was a failure and now they try to make profit from the success of the original version (which is *not* their product!). That's just very low.