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. 

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.