Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

Pros: Confirmed to run in Windows and Linux (doesn't use Wine and has working multiplayer!) Widescreen support New content and classes Cons: Wont work with BG Tutu or Trilogy The price For me multiplayer was a must. If you can play without it, get the originals. It's cheaper, plus more mods :D

Baldur's Gate 2 is a masterpiece and a relic of the golden age of PC RPG games, and one of the best sequels ever made. A must play for any RPG fan, and this is the best possible version. The main reason for favouring this version over the original is the myriad of bug fixes, UI and graphical enhancements Beamdog have added ensuring the rose-tinted memory of the game remains intact in modern gaming. Many die-hard fans will recommend the original version with mods as an alternative, but the mods never reach the depth that Beamdog's efforts do, and can be a pain to get running correctly. Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition takes away the headaches or just getting the game to play nicely, and still allows for more interesting mods and modding should you wish it. Their additional characters and quests aren't really up to standard of the original content and can be ignored completely, but they are a fun distraction for the curious.

Please add the french version

I have bought this game a long time ago, but decided to replay it just today. And... I have a single question - WTF!!! All modifications I saw so far were useless and ruine this exelent game! Even some good ideas as for example with custom portraits in main selection were ruined by not supporting small versions of portraits any more (can't create a face crop - game use a scaled down large version instead)! The first bell I got when discover that it was added some protraits to the original list that totally distract BG drawing style. Then reworked interface that become ugly and try to bring some Diablo style to BG! Next - spell book redisign.... And the last one that force me to close this game and write down this angry comment an interface bugs, as example one of them makes even impossible to open window with passed attacks more that on two lines! The most pitty for me, that I throw out an original version that was on CDs when I bought these .... And now I has no more original version of this great game. :(

I'm french, and I have the original saga (and played many from the beginning to the end), and i've buyed on Beamdog that version last year, to see changes, higher resolutions, easy install... and i keep my old original Baldur's gate II+ToB box only for fun/memory... :) What a bad surprise when i see this game is only in english, whereas 2000's version is localized in many languages !!! It's a shame. Fan community has done work to have foreign dialogs, it's better than nothing, but just be warned (same problem for other countries) !!! PS : it's not the same with Baldur's Gate EE, that i own too, which is correctly traduced in many languages !