Diablo 3 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally gets a worthy successor on current gen consoles.
Diablo 3 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally gets a worthy successor on current gen consoles.
The majority of console titles being released
nowadays are either first person shooters or sandbox games. Isometric
Action RPGs, a genre so basic, so essential, I never thought would
become scarce, hasn't seen a decent release on the current console
generation in almost 7 years. Not one. Back in the PS2 era, the golden
age of console action RPGs, we had the holy grail. Baldur's Gate: Dark
alliance, and its more than worthy successor, Dark alliance II.
Diablo 3 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally gets a worthy successor on current gen consoles.
The
genre was so in vogue, even the Everquest universe brought a worthy
contender to the table with the release of Champions of Norrath, and
Champions of Norrath 2: Return to Arms. Oh, those were the days. I used
to sit on the couch with my girlfriend (nowadays my wife) and play
together for hours on end. Just us, exploring dungeons, marveling at the
prospect of a dropped piece of armor or sword, which we would
immediately pick up and analyze in order to compare to the one we were
wearing. Since the current generation of consoles was released, we have
waited, and waited, and waited for a worthy successor of one of these
games. And there hasn't been any. Diablo 3 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally gets a worthy successor on current gen consoles. There have been flops like Sacred, or
Dungeon Siege's console version but none that were remotely decent (with
the exception perhaps of Lord of The Rings: War in the North.
Technically NOT an isometric RPG but a brilliant coop action RPG game
nonetheless, which filled somehow the void we carried as gamers for over
6 years). Enter The Lord of Destruction.
The wait is finally
over. Diablo III is that game. Diablo 3 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally gets a worthy successor on current gen consoles.
That worthy successor to Baldur's Gate:
Dark alliance we had waited for (for more than half a decade mind you).
From the moment you pick up the controller you can tell Blizzard nailed
this port. It doesn't even feel like a port. Read more
Diablo 3 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance finally gets a worthy successor on current gen consoles.
