GameBanshee Feature: Throne of Bhaal Preview

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I'm pleased to announce that we've posted up a two-page preview of Throne of Bhaal, based upon Interplay's press release version of the expansion. The preview includes four brand new screenshots as well. Here's an excerpt:

However, along with more powerful adversaries comes more experience. And with the cap raised to eight million experience points, characters level up plenty. Until now, high levels didn’t mean a whole lot aside from a few more hit points and maybe a THAC0 decrease. But in Throne of Bhaal, your characters gain powerful special abilities. Mages and Clerics are granted new quest spells that are relatively one spell level higher than anything you’ve seen previously. Reach level twenty with your mage and you can be casting Comet on your foes, an enhanced version of Meteor Swarm that strikes with massive damage and sends a shockwave out to bring your enemies to their knees. Or, if your character is a Fighter, he gets to pick from several abilities such as Whirlwind Attack (allowing him to unleash a flurry of super-fast blows), War Cry (allowing him to cry out and stun his enemies), or Critical Strike (to score critical hits automatically for a short period of time) to name a few. Some of the new abilities have a more powerful version, requiring you to learn the lesser before learning the greater. This ensures that as your character climbs in levels, they will have something to look forward to.

You can find the preview here.