Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Black Isle Studios, released 2 December 2001 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 13.7 hrs to finish.
What Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Black Isle Studios and released in 2001. It was published by Interplay. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Snowblind engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set along the Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms, the adventure begins as three wandering heroes, Vahn, Adrianna, and Kromlech, arrive in the bustling city of Baldur's Gate. Their journey takes a violent turn almost immediately when a band of thieves ambushes them in the streets. Saved by the city watch, the battered trio are brought to the Elfsong Tavern to recover, where the grateful bartender enlists their aid with a seemingly simple task in the cellar below. What starts as clearing out a rat-infested basement quickly unravels into something far more sinister, as the heroes discover the thieves have been slipping into the city through its sewers. Drawn ever deeper beneath Baldur's Gate…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is the 62nd of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Neverwinter Nights in 2002. Its critic score of 85 is 12 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Baldur's Gate III at 95.
How it was received
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 91 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 31.5 hrs, roughly 2.3 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 2Ghz / AMD AthlonXP 2400, 1 GB RAM and GeForce FX5700 or better / ATI Radeon 9600 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.
What it launched against
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance launched on 2 December 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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