Weakest of the IE games
Weakest, you say? It's an opinion most other people don't share, but I've always found this to be by far the worst of the Infinity Engine games. I decided to give it another try to see if it's improved with age, and mostly it hasn't.
The NPCs are less annoying than I used to find them, but that's probably due to the lack of full voice over that's become the norm. Otherwise, most are grating cartoon versions of who they were in BG1 or simply badly written newcomers, with the odd exception.
That's fairly easy to ignore, but harder to forgive is the simply awful game design. Enemy AI is ridiculously cheesy, with overpowered force-casting, rule-breaking beasties being the norm. At some point you'll get tired of reloading until you find the magical right way of breaking the system.
Overall, it's hard to recommend this. To me it always felt like it was put together by someone who had never played D&D, but simply skimmed the rulebooks, and then slapped an overdose of David Gaider's awful, awful writing into it. If you like Bioware's later games, you'll probably find something here to like. If you don't, then this is the game you can likely trace the things you dislike back to.
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