Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Using the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules set, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II features four new acts of hack-and-slash combat and powerful spell casting. Even more monster types will engage in real-time…
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is an adventure developed by Black Isle Studios, released 20 July 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is an adventure game developed by Black Isle Studios and released in 2022. It was published by Interplay Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Using the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules set, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II features four new acts of hack-and-slash combat and powerful spell casting. Even more monster types will engage in real-time battles using the same overhead perspective as witnessed in the original game. Each selected character can parlay the experience gained from combat into acquiring new feats and enhanced abilities over time. To help in battle, a new item creation system lets players craft magical weapons and armor using raw materials found during their travels. As before, two heroes can join the adventure in cooperative play on the same screen, with each character differing in the types of feats and…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. 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 II is the 126th of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Blood in Baldur's Gate in 2023.
What it launched against
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II launched on 20 July 2022, within three weeks of Stray, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Stray, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course.
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