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BALDURS GATE COMPILATION (DVD-ROM) | 
 enlarge | From: Interplay
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 428
Format: Cd-rom, Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: Role Playing Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: BALDURSGATE2TH
EAN: 3546430126868
ASIN: B000FGA1US
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| • | This is the complete Baldur's Gate Compilation on four (4) DVD's. Includes: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. | | • | Baldur's Gate : Baldur's Gate takes you back to the Forgotten Realms campaign setting on a visually dazzling role-playing adventure, one that brings to life the grand tradition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game through cutting edge art and technology. Immerse yourself in this quintessential medieval fantasy world, where nations hang in the balance of your actions, dark prophecies test your resolve, and heroic dreams can be fulfilled at last. | | • | Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Swords Coast : Continue your travels on the Sword Coast with the next set of adventurers in the award-winning Baldur's Gate role-playing game series. | | • | Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn : Baldur's Gate II expands the Baldur's Gate world by bringing you a new set of adventures set in the nation of Amn. Baldur's Gate II has a large central, nonlinear plot line which is broken down into 7-8 chapters, with lots of sub quests and small adventures thrown in for variety. The number of item recovery type quests has been greatly diminished and there are be more class- and alignment-specific quests. | | • | Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal : Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal greatly extends the Baldur's Gate II experience, with approximately 40 hours of additional adventures. Explore the lands of Tethyr as an epic conflict wreaks devastation on a scale never before seen in the Forgotten Realms campaign world |
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Product Description
This is the complete Baldur's Gate Compilation on four (4) DVD's. Includes: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal.Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate takes you back to the Forgotten Realms campaign setting on a visually dazzling role-playing adventure, one that brings to life the grand tradition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game through cutting edge art and technology. Immerse yourself in this quintessential medieval fantasy world, where nations hang in the balance of your actions, dark prophecies test your resolve, and heroic dreams can be fulfilled at last. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Swordscoast
Continue your travels on the Sword Coast with the next set of adventurers in the award-winning Baldur's Gate role-playing game series. Legends of treasures lost and monsters to be defeated abound in the region. Almost all have at least some basis in truth. Are you up to the task? Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II expands the Baldur's Gate world by bringing you a new set of adventures set in the nation of Amn. Baldur's Gate II has a large central, nonlinear plotline which is broken down into 7-8 chapters, with lots of subquests and small adventures thrown in for variety. The number of item recovery type quests has been greatly diminished and there are be more class- and alignment-specific quests. Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal greatly extends the Baldur's Gate II experience, with approximately 40 hours of additional adventures. Explore the lands of Tethyr as an epic conflict wreaks devastation on a scale never before seen in the Forgotten Realms campaign world Features: - Special 4-game DVD-ROM
- Play the original Baldur's Gate game
- Includes Tales of The Sword Coast Expansion
- Explore unseen lands as yo
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Best PC RPGs ever made January 3, 2009
Isackson (WA)
The Baldur's Gate series without a doubt stands as some of the greatest RPGs ever made for any system (The PC games included with this collection, not the 2 console titles which released for PS2 and XBox which are both decent games but have very little in common with their PC predicessors)
These games also stand as a memorial to the day when PC gaming was great and not relegated to a dusty corner of your local game store (if even that - we can thank online roleplaying games...)
Well sorry for my lement, back to the games.
Why are these games so great ?
Story:
For starters this "trilogy" - Tales from the Sword Coast is more of a large side quest - has one of the greatest stories you will ever come across in a game. From the death of the hero's father (the hero can be any class, race and either sex) to the climatic ending I was completely entranced. Add in a rediculous amount of side quests (the second BG has a series of huge side quests in addition to all the others available based on the class of your main character and a giant world to explore this is truely a series that will keep you admersed for a long time...
Gameplay:
The gameplay is simply put perfect in every way, shape and form. The combat plays out in real time with the ability to pause at any time to redirect the attacks of the up to 6 members of your party. This provides unlimited options for strategy. Prepare your party with huge numbers of protective skills cast by your mages and clerics and then attack with powerful spells, use stealth and throw everything but the kitchen sink at your enemies or charge in to battle and just start hacking away. There are also so many options for character developement of your party you will likely find yourself experienting again and again with what characters you want to add to your party (all of which have different strengths,weaknesses and personalities you will have to deal with.
The only words of caution however for newcomers is that the first game may turn some off (largely due to fact that your character starts off so weak and vulnerable, level 1, and that it takes awhile before things really get exciting and combat becomes indepth).
Enjoy the games. Baldurs Gate II ranks as probably the second best game ever made IMHO (My first choice? X-Com UFO Defense).
 Worth the money! December 29, 2008
Europa (Seattle)
This game is so much fun! I have had it for almost two months and I still have not finished playing the entire compilation. This is a plus for me because usually when I buy adventure games, I almost always finish them in a few days, a week at most. The not-so nice thing about the first game, is that the bonus features (on disk two) are incorporated into the first game, so there's extras, but I did not know this. I now have to go back and replay it entirely in order to see the added features. Also there are a lot of a little annoying features, like you can't check your inventory when in pause mode. All those kinks are finally dealt with in the second game, which is oh so much better, but a bit more mind bending. It really makes one appreciate the more pixelated or older adventure playing games. However, that makes it easier to take the time and enjoy it in little pieces, rather than chunks. I still have yet to get to the bonus features. My advice for both or any adventure game is: TAKE NOTES! Even if its to remind you what you still need to do or if it's already recorded in the journal of the game. It still helps to have another reference at hand. Definitely challenging enough and worth every penny.
Baldur's Gate November 29, 2008
R. Grills
One of the greatest of the older RPG games. Hours of play. Truly a great game.
 Its a 1980 graphics game, thats my only issue with it October 30, 2008
Robert M. Twardowski
1 out of 21 found this review helpful
Graphics were out of date when the game was released. It is more like 1980 game graphics, instead of anything even closely resembling 1990 quality graphics. And that is where I have an issue with the game and the series. Your basically using "stick figure" characters, who resemble just what I said = stick figures. They do not even resemble characters. The Ultima PC games that came out in the 1980s had better looking characters then this game does for a game released in 1998 or 1999.
I don't mind playing a 1990 to 1998 role playing game, and having worst graphics. Since for a RPG, you don't focus on graphics. But I do mind playing a 1980s graphics game, and that is what you are buying when you buy Baldur's Gate. And worst yet, its not even a good quality 1980's graphics game. Its the worst of the worst of 1980 quality graphics.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to put down or criticize a game that a lot of people love. Just I found the "stick figure" character graphics so bad, that it made it extremely difficult for myself to get into the game. I actually picked up one of the games based on this engine a few times in my life, and tryed very hard to get into it. But the stick figure graphics, just got under my skin after a while, and I stopped playing. It wouldn't be so bad, if they actually had 1990 quality graphics. But I played dozens of 1980 and 1990 roleplaying games, and this game most definitely fits in the lower end of 1980s type graphics. Most good 1990 role playing games, you can see what the characters are wearing. If you change clothes, or weapons, or anything else, then that change will clearly reflect on the character's model as seen on the screen. None of that is true for Baldur's Gate. Its difficult enough with the stick figure character graphics to even figure out who is a girl or a guy.
Really ashame the developers did such a piss poor job on the character graphics in this game.
Time has only made these games better October 22, 2008
Cranky Yankee (Boston, MA)
I played these when they first came out as I always wanted to play a D&D game...with attention...so it took me over three full years to go from beginning to end. Doing as many quests and plot diversions as I could, such fun...it was like playing inside a comic book.
About a year ago I discovered that the BGTuTu (strange name, but think of it as (Baldur's Gate to BG2) patch is an aftermarket add-on that not only fixes the remaining small minor bugs but lets you run the older BG1 game in the BG2 engine. All you needed to do was have all the games, like this set...and follow the lengthy, but simple instructions on how to put it all together.
Of course, I had to reinstall everything to try TuTu out..and now I'm a year into my next epic session..with all the benefits and better interface (and scripts and spell effects and audio)...with more than a year to go with all the extra quests and mods available from third parties.
In case you are wondering I chose a Paladin the first time around, as they are magnificent fighters and heal themselves easily and get bonuses against evil..and there's a whole lot of evil in Baldur's Gate. This time I chose the hardest of all classes: the multi-classed fighter, cleric, magic user. You need three times as much experience points to get to the highest levels and you get their three times as slowly. But, you are nine times as powerful when you get there! The ultimate long-term character for a great long-term game. I'll let you know how it turns out in 2010 or so.
Lastly, the audio and soundtrack from musical genius Jeremy Soule is probably the most sublime and inspired game soundtrack yet. Perfect orchestrations, moods, genre choice, and all original.
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