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The environments and enemy design are pretty, the movement is fluid and the combat fast and impactful. I’ve certainly enjoyed re-living it more than that Diablo 2 remaster from a while ago (sometimes nostalgia really is like looking through rose-tinted glasses).

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Generally speaking, Dark Alliance 2 holds up. If the Dark Alliance series had continued beyond the second, that could have become a genre-changing approach, because suddenly the environment and level design becomes a relevant, interesting, and memorable part of the challenge. You move about spaces and you fight hordes of enemies, but there doesn’t tend to be much of an intersection between the two. I love Diablo, and Titan Quest, and plenty of other examples of the genre, but they do tend to have a fairly utilitarian approach to level design. It creates the real perception that you’re encroaching on the home turf of the monsters, and they know how to protect their space. Dark Alliance 2 isn’t necessarily easy, and by today’s standards the save system comes across as particularly punitive, but what I like about it is that to this day delving into the game’s dungeons feels suitably dangerous. For example, charging into a room where a row of archers have formed behind a wall of boxes, and melee units swamp you, can quickly become deadly unless you can figure out how to deal with the archers first. Individually enemies tend to be fairly weak, but the set pieces are designed to really test your ability to respond to threats in the right order. What is perhaps most enjoyable about Dark Alliance II is the creative challenges that those hordes provide. Still, once you’re wading deep in the viscera of hordes of enemies that pile on, the limited choice of heroes hardly matters. The variety behind these is good, though by modern standards may come across as somewhat restrictive.

These are exactly what you would expect, ranging from a shirtless “big-thump” guy, through to a couple of speedy options, and then magic-focused heroes. And now you can play the second on modern consoles.ĭark Alliance II was originally released on PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Microsoft Xbox, and gives you five different characters to choose between. Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was a series of just two games, but they remain two of the better “Diablo clones” that we’ve seen over the many years of the genre.

There was a time where “Dungeons & Dragons” and “Dark Alliance” put together was something worth getting excited about. Forget the absolutely dismal Dark Alliance dungeon crawler that was released last year.

Download the last version for ios Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance II