His health and mana meters are at the top left of the screen. Gameplay in the PlayStation 2 version of Dark Alliance, showing Vahn fighting his way through the Marsh of Chelimber. A third game was planned, but was cancelled early in development due to legal problems, and the closure of Black Isle Studios after Interplay went bankrupt. A sequel, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, was released in 2004 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is also the first game in the Baldur's Gate series released on consoles as opposed to a PC and/or Mac.ĭark Alliance was well received on all four platforms, with the PlayStation 2 version going on to win the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award for 'Role-Playing Game of the Year' (2001). It is the first video game to implement the real time application of the new rules. The game is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of Dungeons & Dragons, and the gameplay is based on the rules of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, which were released in 2000. In December of the same year, a port for the PC was released. In 2021, a 4K port of the game was released for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch. CD Projekt was developing a version for Microsoft Windows, but it was ultimately cancelled. The Game Boy Advance version was published by DSI Games.

The game was published by Black Isle Studios, a division of Interplay Entertainment, and distributed by Vivendi Universal Games. It was ported to GameCube by High Voltage Software, and to the Game Boy Advance by Magic Pockets. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a 2001 action role-playing/ hack and slash video game developed by Snowblind Studios for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox consoles.

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