

if a character increases to level twelve, the player will gain twelve experience points to spend on the character's spells and feats. Every time the character increases in level, points are awarded corresponding to that level i.e. The player can customize their character's stats through gaining experience points from defeating enemies. It’ll be $29.99 when it launches, so we’ll definitely be paying a bit of premium for this trip down memory lane, especially when you consider that the game has mostly been left untouched in this jump to modern platforms.The console version of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a real-time hack and slash/action role-playing game presented in a 3D perspective, with a rotatable isometric three-quarter top-down view.Īt the beginning of the game, character stats are preset, with the player able to choose from three race/class combinations a dwarven fighter (Kromlech), a human archer (Vahn) or an elven sorceress (Adrianna). Those of you on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch don’t have long to wait for Dark Alliance to arrive, as it’ll be launching tomorrow, May 7th, with news about the PC and mobile release coming at a later date. With this re-release, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is coming to PC for the first time, but unfortunately, those of us on PC (and mobile) will have to wait until a later date to play it.

The visuals depicted in the trailer are very clearly old school graphics, and IGN’s article makes it clear that this is simply a re-release with support for higher resolutions, not a remaster or a remake.īaldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is something of anomaly among action RPGs, because it’s one of the few that was a console-only title. It seems to be a relatively bare-bones re-release, though it does support up to 4K resolution to make it play nice with modern day consoles.Īside from that support for widescreen resolutions, don’t expect anything in the way of graphics or gameplay updates. The game was revealed by way of a new trailer that was published by IGN, which also has a few sparse details about it as well. Today, Interplay, Black Isle, and Wizards of the Coast announced a re-release of the original Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance title.
