GB Feature: Baldur's Gate II Five-Year Anniversary

[GameBanshee News]

Baldur's Gate II has officially reached its five-year anniversary today and we're celebrating the event by releasing updated content for the epic RPG, an interview with its lead designers, and an editorial entitled "Baldur's Gate II: The T-Rex of RPGs". Sift through the goods:

• Five-Year Anniversary Interview: Baldur's Gate II co-lead designers James Ohlen and Kevin Martens answer several questions about the game's development cycle and the impact it had on the industry.



• Baldur's Gate II: The T-Rex of RPGs: GameBanshee's Tyson McCann reflects on why the game is still the most massive, epic RPG ever released.



• Updated Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Walkthrough: We've revisited every single area in the game and modernized the walkthrough, adding redone maps, area codes for all locations, links to item statistics, and a whole lot more.



• Updated Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal Walkthrough: We've revisited every single area in the expansion and modernized the walkthrough, adding redone maps, area codes for all locations, links to item statistics, and a whole lot more.



• Books of Lore: The text for all of the tomes, manuals, and other books that your party can find during the adventure.



• Shadows of Amn Concept Art and Wallpaper: Concept art and wallpaper created during the development of the game.



• Throne of Bhaal Concept Art and Wallpaper: Concept art and wallpaper created during the development of the expansion.



• David Gaider Enhancements: Downloadable enhancements to both Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal created by BioWare designer David Gaider.

Enjoy!

[Stilgar]

Hooray for Baldur's Gate and it's developers.
Has it been 5year's already......time goes fast when you are having fun.

[TonyMontana1638]

Three words: Best RPG EVER

[Luis Antonio]

Hail to the king. *Raises glass*

[Xandax]

BG2 is forever the benchmark I set up to judge CRPGs - or should I say CRPG-Lites for all the eyecandy, stupid puzzles and fast easy gameplay makes for mediocre CRPGs at the least. (No assigning a point of strenght is not characterdvelopment!!! )

Danged - I wish we could turn back time so I could experience the joy of playing Baldurs Gate series for the first time again

[BuckGB]

I should also mention that an anniversary for Baldur's Gate II is more or less an anniversary for GameBanshee. I officially launched the site at the beginning of September 2000, just a couple of weeks before the game was released. And, thanks to BG2, the site grew in both content and community at an amazing pace.

So... here's to five years of running GameBanshee as well!

[Xandax]

Yeah - for GameBanshee ... where would I be if I hadn't waste all my time for the last 5 years here .... ehh - that came out wrong

Good going Buck

[Aegis]

And to think, Xan, aside from Buck, I think we're the other two senior members still active here

[Mr.Waesel]

Thanks for the updated content