Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is single-player role-playing action in the world of the popular Elder Scrolls game. The Emperor of Tamriel has been assassinated and the killer still runs loose. Meanwhile, no heir sits on the throne. With no Emperor upon the throne, the gates of Oblivion open wide and demons invade. Your quest is to find the lost heir and place him on the throne, before demons destroy the land. Special Collector's Edition includes: Pocket Guide to the Empire, "Making of Oblivion" Documentary and a Septim Gold Coin. Next-generation graphics with pixel-shader effects for high-definition TVs, creating lifelike towns & dungeons, and the most realistic forests.

Features:

• Live another life in a whole new world -- gamers can create and play any character they can imagine, from the noble warrior to the sinister assassin to the wizened sorcerer
• First-person melee and magic systems bring first person role-playing to a new level of intensity
• The groundbreaking new Radiant AI system gives Oblivion's characters full 24/7 schedules and the ability to make their own choices based on the world around them
• Features over 1,000 non-player characters who come to life like never before -- facial animations, lip-synching, full speech, even unscripted conversations with each other
• The enormous world of Oblivion is open, giving you short challenges and open-ended gameplay -- everything from fighting bandits to mixing potions

Explore Sigil, the City of Doors. The doors serve as the town's gateway to everything and everywhere that matters. Step through one door and enter the halls of Ysgard, or turn down a particular alley and discover the Abyss. There are more gateways in Sigil than can be imagined. But there's a lot more out there than just Sigil. Get outside the city and there's the planes themselves: the throne of the gods, the battleground of the eternal Blood War, and home to more horrors and wonders than ever existed on any prime world. There's enough crusades, exploits, treasures, and mysteries to keep a band of adventurers busy for centuries to come. All it takes is the right door, so step right through.

In Planescape: Torment, you play a nameless, scarred, immortal on a quest to discover his past, his identity, and his role in the conflict over the nature of reality. The brilliant role-playing and adventure game focuses on the "Planescape" campaign setting of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game, and combines the best elements of Interplay's phenomenally successful Baldur's Gate with an enthralling story line, well-written dialogue, and beautiful artwork and graphics.

In an inspired choice, Black Isle Studios, the developer of Planescape: Torment, has chosen to provide the player, at least initially, with as little details about the story as possible. After viewing a mysterious introductory movie, players guide The Nameless One on a journey through the bleak city of Sigil and its underground catacombs. The story leads from there to the bizarre realities of alternate planes of existence, where belief and thought determine the laws of physics. Through dialogue with hundreds of nonplayer characters, puzzle solving, and point-and-click combat, The Nameless One discovers clues about his identity and the circumstances surrounding his condition.

Gamers overwhelmed by detailed role-playing games will find Planescape: Torment easier to grasp; players can freely switch between three different character classes (Fighter, Mage, Thief) for The Nameless One as the game progresses, and learning the combat and magic system--with a simple point-and-click interface--takes only a few minutes. Literally hundreds of weapons, items, spells, and "tattoos" can be collected and affixed to The Nameless One or any of the several party members acquired during the course of the game. If you're a fan of role-playing or adventure games, Planescape: Torment's engrossing world creates a must-have gaming experience.

Features:

• Fascinating, unique setting
• Engrossing story
• Rich graphics and spell effects
• Intriguing dialogue
• Built with the Bioware Infinity Engine, the same as Baldur's Gate

Return to the Pool of Radiance that spawned the golden age of computer role-playing games. Pool of Radiance 2 carries on the story of the first PC Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game: the Pool has resurfaced, and it renders everything it touches undead. The player must create a party of six adventurers and explore the haunted elven ruins of Myth Drannor in order to stop the Pool's evil influence.

Pool of Radiance 2 is the first game to use the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules. Playable character classes are Fighter, Barbarian, Paladin, Ranger, Cleric, Sorcerer, Monk, and Rogue, while the races include Half-Orc, Human, Halfling, Dwarf, Elf, and Half-Elf. Characters advance from 1st to 16th levels, allowing spellcasters access to 8th-level spells.

As you explore the ancient ruins of Myth Drannor, the Dungeon Master will communicate all important events and findings. Combat is based on turns, just as in the tabletop game. With a great single-player campaign as well as multiplayer support, Pool of Radiance 2 is ready to carry on the legacy of the famous Gold Box games and lead D&D RPGs into the era of 3rd Edition rules.

Features:

• Set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons using new 3rd Edition rules
• Featuring new character classes and races, such as Barbarians, Monks, Paladins, and Half-Orcs
• Cast over 100 spells: both Sorcerer and Cleric, plus Orisons and Cantrips
• Create 4 characters of a 6-character party
• 3-D animated characters battle monsters in interactive environments

Three renegade warriors, each with unique fighting abilities. All drawn together by an inexplicable force. After triggering a chain of catastrophic events, they must combine powers to survive a treacherous journey of fate and redemption.

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone delivers the feel of an action movie in an incredible role-playing experience. Its award-winning game engine combines with an incredible story written by best-selling fantasy author R.A. Salvatore. Journey to the mythic land of Faerun, where monsters and magic are real. You set out in a party of three, to right an ancient wrong and restore order to the world. Fulfill prophecies and build a legend as you fight to stop demons from destroying all that you know. Features voice talent by Patrick Stewart and Michael Clarke Duncan.

Features:

• Select a party of three distinct characters
• Send them off to hack apart enemies, blow them up with magic or sneak through the shadows
• Battle in 10 beautifully detailed levels from the world of the Forgotten Realms, from Gemspark Mine to the Jungles of Chult
• Face off against incredible enemies from D&D lore
• Foes include Bugbears, Trolls, Mind Flayers, Slaads, Yuan-Ti's and more
• Tons of weapons and items to enhance a character's abilities--magic gauntlets, rings and cloaks
• Purchase character upgrades and create powerful warriors that can face any challenge

On the outskirts of the village of Nulb, a temple dedicated to elemental evil lies in ruins. Destroyed by the good armies and the infamous Circle of Eight, its blood-stained history remains a distant memory--until now. Suspicious men have begun roaming the roads leading to the villages. Who and what these men are, no one can be sure. All claim to be slaying monsters and bringing peace and security to the area, but rumors persist regarding their true intent. In this land, deeds speak louder than words and lies cloak the true purposes of the malevolent.

So begins the classic Dungeons & Dragons module, The Temple of Elemental Evil, brought to the PC for the first time by Troika Games. Assemble a party of up to five adventurers and embark upon an epic journey like no other. Immerse yourself in gripping gameplay featuring the Dungeons & Dragons v.3.5 rules set. Prepare to enter the very heart of evil itself!

Features:

• Literal computer translation of one of the world's most beloved Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings, the Realm of Greyhawk. The first and only PC game to utilize the newly released D&D v.3.5 rules
• Options for creating up to five characters per party, in a reactive world filled with non-playable characters (NPCs) that react differently to the unique attributes of the adventuring party
• Improved, easy-to-use, turn-based combat system quickens gameplay and allows players to better manage battles and spell-casting
• Dozens of skills and class abilities, over 50 feats, and hundreds of spells from which to chose, including cleric domain spells
• Multiple quest solutions lead to different paths for different parties
• Over 50 side quests allow players to explore beyond the main storyline
• Multiple starting points depending on the party's alignment, and multiple end games depending on how the game is played
• More than 100 monster types, from goblins and hill giants to elementals and demons

Dragonshard is a real-time strategy experience based in the mystical world of Eberron, the acclaimed new Dungeons & Dragons realm. Within this wholly imaginative setting lives an inventive gameplay fusion: dramatic RTS play is affected by the risks and rewards of a thrilling RPG-styled underworld.

As players direct troops over the land, they also plunge smaller, hero-led parties below ground to an RPG-modeled world of beasts, battles, and bounty. Experience and items gained in this underworld result in great powers and abilities above ground.

Using magic, weaponry, and skilled maneuvers, players command armies from varying races to control, protect--or destroy--the powerful Heart of Siberys. Obtaining this omnipotent artifact will unleash its full forces, good or evil, upon the entire world.

Features:

• The first Dungeons & Dragons real-time strategy experience
• The first D&D game from the all-new Eberron campaign setting
• Groundbreaking game design with two levels of interconnected action: dramatic RTS war above ground and critical RPG-styled battles in dungeons below
• Four ranges of controllable units: powerful champions, heroic captains, trainable henchmen, and nearly unstoppable battlefield juggernauts
• Unit development based on 'Experience Points', allowing players to "level up" units--an added RPG twist to the classic RTS gameplay structure
• An innovative village grid system--the "Nexus System"--where choice and placement of buildings can specifically affect units’ powers
• Co-op and head-to-head multiplayer modes; for 1 to 8 players
• Three warring factions (in multiplayer modes), each with its own history, campaigns, unique strengths... and weaknesses
• Game story by Eberron creator Keith Baker
• A variety of threatening environments, all with the "Hyper Terrain" feature, creating real-time terrain deformation in the wake of unit movements

For over 30 years Dungeons & Dragons™ has been the legendary benchmark for all roleplaying games. Now you can experience one of the most unique and dangerous online games ever created – based on the classic roleplaying game that started it all.

Enter the world of Dungeons & Dragons online. Adventurers have long travelled to the shrouded continent of Xen'drik to explore ancient ruins and discover the treasures hidden beneath. The bustling frontier city of Stormreach, a cauldron of ambition and secret plots, has grown on the edges of this dark and dangerous continent, safe and secure as the gateway to Xen'drik. But now danger threatens. Few explorers who set out adventuring the lands near Stormreach ever return, and those that do bring back only tales of death and destruction.

Are you a match for the fearsome denizens of the dungeons below? Can you discover the secret mysteries that threaten Stormreach's very existence? Forge your destiny in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach!

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach takes you into a classic fantasy world, for incredible MMORPG gaming. Travel to Stormreach for exciting adventures where you'll face impossible challenges and unbeatable monsters, all for fortune and glory. Choose from nine classes and five races, including the Eberron warforged race - then enter ancient dungeons and complete missions to find gold, magic and treasure. Beware: Each dungeon has multiple paths to success. While a fighter is best off slaying the enemies before him, a rogue with Hide and Move Silently skills might be best off avoiding their notice. Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to feature voice chat integrated into the service. Follows the D&D version 3.5 Core Rules. DVD for Windows. Gather in taverns to meet fellow adventurers, find new allies and quests, and rest up between battles Integrated voice chat lets you coordinate your team efforts more effectively. Limited Edition features a special DDO Red Dragon Poster, "Feats Chart", special packaging and a new in-game item: Boots of Running.

Features:

• Design your own customized hero from 9 different classes, 5 races and hundreds of skills, feats and appearances
• Fight monsters and rivals using new ReActive combat, where skill matters and seconds count
• Survive the unforgiving dungeons, deadly traps and brutal foes -- all which are designed to punish the slow, weak and foolish
• Battle your way through dungeons and earn experience points by completing quests, instead of grinding through dozens of monster encounters
• Advance through levels and ranks, earning new feats, skills and enhancements along the way
• Iconic D&D characters
• Fast paced combat that requires tactical critical thinking as much as bravery and physical skill
• Forge bonds: Reminiscent of traditional pencil-and-paper D&D, ally with friends and other players for small party adventures
• Dense and compelling cityscape
• Live in a thriving metropolitan city where players get to know each other and the NPCs

Neverwinter Nights is a computer game set in a huge medieval fantasy world of Dungeons & Dragons. This role-playing game puts you at the center of an epic tale of faith, war, and betrayal.

As a player, you are able to choose what skills and abilities you will develop as you voyage though the complex and dangerous fantasy world of Forgotten Realms. Be a deadly and dangerous Rogue moving through the shadows using stealth and secrecy, be a scholarly Wizard and wield powerful magic against your enemies, be a hulking Barbarian whose lust for battle is matched only by his terrible rage, be an armor-clad Paladin who protects the innocent and vanquishes his foes, be a crusading Cleric who heals the sick and defends the helpless--be all this and more.

But the Neverwinter experience is not just for one person: adventure with all your friends. Neverwinter Nights can be played online with up to 64 friends, all sharing in the adventure. You can organize and run your own adventures through the role of the Dungeon Master and control all the monsters, creatures and characters your friends meet as they journey on their quest. A powerful piece of software that is included with Neverwinter Nights, the DM Client, allows nearly unlimited control for running your own adventures for your friends.

Neverwinter Nights... endless adventure!

Features:

• True Dungeons & Dragons role-playing utilizing the D&D 3rd Edition rule set
• Fast-paced RPG with an easily accessible interface suitable for new players and RPG veterans alike
• Explore the rich single-player campaign or create your own adventure with the included Aurora Toolset and invite others to play
• Set up your own custom perpetual gameworld with over 60 players at the same time
• Online, on-the-fly Dungeon Master functionality makes the game play like tabletop D&D, but faster and much better looking

Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide offers role playing fans even more D&D features than the groundbreaking original. Additions include new skills, including Tumble and Appraise; new feats, such as Divine Might, Extra Music and Bullheaded; new weapons, such as Holy Water Flasks and Choking Powder; new prestige classes, like Harper Scout; new monsters from the D&D universe, including Medusa, Cockatrice, Sphinx, and Female Fire Giant; and dozens of new spells. In addition, the expansion pack equips amateur module makers with additional content for the Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset, the groundbreaking software included with the full game that allows players to create their own universes, quests and storylines. The toolset will be augmented with all new tile sets for creation of new environments as well as new "Wizards," or automated guides, to help gamers build and play adventures of their own creation.

Features:

• Expansion for Neverwinter Nights
• New feats and skills such as Divine Might, Extra Music, Bullheaded, Tumble, and Appraise
• New prestige classes such as Blackguard and Harper Scout
• New weapons, spells, and monsters
• Improvements to the adventure-building Aurora toolset, including new tile sets and automated guides

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark pits players in a battle to save the embattled city of Waterdeep from an ancient evil buried deep within the earth and stone of Undermountain.

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark includes a new 20-hour single player campaign, designed for high-level characters and set amidst the famous city of Waterdeep and the foreboding Underdark from the D&D game's Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Hordes of the Underdark will significantly expand upon the Neverwinter Nights universe, most notably with the addition of Epic Level gameplay. Based upon the rules published by Wizards of the Coast in the D&D game supplement Epic Level Handbook, Epic Levels are available for characters who have reached level 20, allowing them to advance as far as level 40.

In addition, Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark introduces several new prestige classes, including the Shifter, a druidic class specializing in shape shifting; dozens of new feats, such as Epic Reputation, Craft Weapon and Armor Skin; a multitude of new weapons and spells, many designed solely for epic level characters; challenging new creatures pulled straight out of the Underdark, including Mind Flayers, Beholders and Driders; several new character voice sets for even greater character customization; and 17 new epic soundtracks from composer Jeremy Soule.

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark equips module makers with two new tilesets and additional content for the Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset, the groundbreaking software included with the full game that allows players to create their own universes, quests and storylines. The two new tilesets will be based around the new campaign and will include exciting new features specific to certain denizens of the Underdark itself.

Features:

• Expansion for Neverwinter Nights
• New 20-hour single-player campaign
• Epic levels allow characters to advance as far as level 40
• New prestige classes, feats, weapons, spells, and voice sets
• 2 new tilesets and additional content for the Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset

Neverwinter Nights has captured the minds and hearts of PC gamers worldwide with one of the most captivating Dungeons and Dragons role-playing experiences to ever grace a computer screen. Based in the Forgotten Realms, the Neverwinter Nights Gold Edition game gives gamers a chance to rediscover the magic, extend the experience, or even explore it anew.

Neverwinter Nights Gold Edition game is an incredible value featuring one of best-selling and most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time in Neverwinter Nights; the best-selling first expansion pack, Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide; and a number of stand-alone modules previously available only as downloadable content. The Neverwinter Nights Gold Edition game is the perfect introduction to the Neverwinter Nights universe whether you're a first-time player or a veteran of the role-playing genre--gamers won't want to miss this.

The Neverwinter Nights Gold Edition game features all of the most compelling aspects of Neverwinter Nights gaming including an extensive 80-hour official campaign, which is also playable in multiplayer mode; the amazing Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset which lets players create their own adventures, and the Dungeon Master client that allows players to step into the shoes of the Dungeon Master to tell their own stories; and, most importantly, access to an absolutely thriving player community brimming with content and support.

The Neverwinter community is one of the most compelling aspects of Neverwinter Nights. Fans who purchase the Gold Edition gain immediate access to almost 3,000 community made modules. With the quantity and quality of fan created content, a seemingly inexhaustible source of creativity, Neverwinter fans are provided with an unprecedented amount of replayability.

The Neverwinter Nights Gold Edition game also includes the complete first official expansion pack Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide. Additional features include a new extensive single player campaign and new skills, including Tumble and Appraise; new feats, such as Divine Might, Great Cleave, and Bullheaded; new weapons, such as Holy Water Flasks and Choking Powder; five new prestige classes, including the Blackguard, Shadowdancer, and Assassin; new monsters from the D&D universe, including the Pit Fiend, Cockatrice, Sphinx, and Manticore; and more than 50 additional spells.

In addition, the expansion pack equips module makers with additional content for the Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset, the groundbreaking software included with the full game that allows players to create their own universes, quests, and storylines. The toolset is augmented with all new tile sets for creation of new environments as well as new "Wizards," or automated guides, to help gamers build and play adventures of their own creation.

The Neverwinter Nights Gold Edition game also gives players a chance to experience some of the most popular and exciting modules created using the Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset. Modules are complete stand-alone adventures that allow players to take part in entirely new stories and adventures within their favorite Dungeons & Dragons worlds. The modules include The Winds of Eremor, To Heir is Human, The Dark Ranger's Treasure and BioWare's Contest of Champions.

Features:

• Access to a thriving player community brimming with content and support
• A captivating Dungeons & Dragons role-playing experience
• Based in the Forgotten Realms, rediscover the magic or explore it anew
• Features the Shadows of Undrentide expansion and a number of stand-alone modules
• Includes an 80-hour official campaign, Aurora Toolset, and Dungeon Master client

Neverwinter Nights Platinum introduces the game world of the Forgotten Realms, for a gigantic, expansive and thrilling adventure. Explore and battle your way across a continent -- then travel deep underneath it, while searching for gold, power, glory and answers to ancient mysteries! This Platinum Edition includes the original Neverwinter Nights with its two expansion packs: Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark. Incredible online multiplayer action -- become the dungeon master and control every facet of the adventure!

Features:

• Invite up to 64 friends to experience your customized adventure
• In Neverwinter Nights, a city is under quarantine as a deadly plague decimates the population. You are sent on a quest to find the cure
• Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide takes you east, to the frontier town of Hilltop
• Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark takes you to Waterdeep, below and beyond
• Hire muscle or join up with other travelers to form war parties -- Journey through ancient dungeons, battle the deadliest monsters, and learn the skills you need to become a great hero
• Neverwinter Toolset creates new characters, monsters, stories, weapons and legends

Neverwinter Nights Diamond is the total package from the award-winning Neverwinter Nights gameplay. From Bioware, the developers of Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights is an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Neverwinter Nights has been designed for the single-player, as well as online, multiplayer environment and the latest in 3D technology. It also allows anyone to experience all the magic of pen & paper Dungeon-Mastering on a home computer. Neverwinter Nights' powerful and user-friendly Aurora Toolset allows creation and population of entire new modular worlds and stories for others to adventure in. Enter a multiplayer module as a DM (Dungeon Master) and alter plots, possess characters and manage combat from behind the scenes all in real-time.

The Shadows of Undrentide expansion offers role playing fans more Dungeons and Dragons features than the ground breaking original. Additional skills, such as Tumble and Appraise, additional feats, such as Divine Might, Extra Music and Bullheaded, additional new weapons, such as Holy Water Flasks and Choking Powder, additional new prestige classes, such as Harper Scout, additional new monsters from the Dungeon and Dragons universe, such as Medusa, Cockatrice, Sphinx, and Female Fire Giant, and additional new spells.

Hordes of the Underdark is the 2nd expansion for the revolutionary role-playing game Neverwinter Nights. BioWare has created a dark and dangerous world of adventure set in the world of D&D. Your mind is sharp from hundreds of books studied, callused hands from years of weapon play, nimble feet from slipping unseen and unheard past thousands of guards and unshakable faith in gods worshipping. But is it enough for the final terror? As the last hope for the Forgotten Realms, you must face the unstoppable and decide the fate for all. As the hero, are you a legend? Epic levels, new prestige classes, new creatures, spells, feats, weapons and new tilesets to explore endless adventures.

Features:

• Includes the original game + both official expansions
• Includes 3 original BioWare-created premium modules: KingMaker, ShadowGuard and Witch's Wake
• Collector's disc case

Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker gives you the chance to rule a guild -- assuming you can prove that you're worthy of such an honor. When a keep is under siege, you rush to its defense. The lord of the keep has disappeared, and you've been recommended as a possible replacement. An election will take place to decide who will be Lord of the Keep -- go on the quests set for you by the guildmasters to show you deserve the title. Requires Neverwinter Nights & Hordes of the Underdark to function.

Features:

• Includes 3 original BioWare-created premium modules: KingMaker, ShadowGuard and Witch's Wake

Peril once again befalls the Forgotten Realms and the Sword Coast and unbeknownst to the denizens of the North, dark forces from across the Realms are rallying under the banner of a legendary evil. Unchallenged, all of the North is doomed to fall under its power. Even in this darkest hour, hope remains. A mysterious artifact is borne to Neverwinter so that its secret might be unlocked. The fate of all the North lies in the hands of a lone hero tasked with bearing it to the city. Neverwinter Nights 2 will captivate the hard core and casual gamer alike in an expansive setting where heroes are made-not born and the future of Forgotten Realms is at stake.

Features:

• Dynamic and cinematic gameplay rewards the player with a personal and immersive experience, while the leading edge toolset allows custom content creation and virtually unlimited gameplay.
• Players gain influence and renown over non player characters as they complete quests and level-up.
• Robust toolset allows hard core gamers to create their own adventures - providing a plethora of downloadable content for all players.
• Players build their own strongholds which develop over the game into a full fledged manor.
• New prestige classes and exclusive sub-races will appeal to D&D and RPG fans alike.

Chaos threatens to overwhelm the Sword Coast. The state of Amn is under siege to the south, the High Moor is being overrun in the north, and the region around Baldur's Gate is in turmoil. In an area known for its ample resources, a crippling shortage is slowly developing for the metal that is used throughout the Realms for everything from swords to forks--iron. When iron ore reaching the region is smelted, the resulting wares are plagued with brittleness such that they crack and break with little more than normal use. What is worse, trading caravans coming from all directions into Baldur's Gate are under constant attack from bandits and cutthroats who loot not for gold and gems (although they often take those too), but for iron.

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Baldur's Gate is a near-perfect adaptation of the classic tabletop, role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Six separate races and eight core character classes, from which the player can create a completely original character, are available. The game world is well painted, and players are free to explore this wonderfully textured game environment in any way they see fit, all against the backdrop of a thoughtfully conceived and versatile plot.

You begin the game as a young orphan living with your stepfather within the safe confines of a scholarly community. It is a happy and idyllic life until your stepfather is killed and it becomes clear that you are intended to be next. You, as the young protagonist, then set out to discover just what kind of a mess you're in. During the adventure, you recruit a number of personable allies, battle foes, delve into dungeons, trek across wilderness, solve puzzles, and complete a plethora of epic quests that are seamlessly sown into the fabric of the overall plot. The story line unfolds in response to your choices to reveal your character's true identity as well as the nature and motive of your enemies.

This 1998 Role-Playing Game of the Year is a masterpiece and the standard by which all such games will be judged for the foreseeable future. Groundbreaking 32-bit graphics, 3-D sound, multiplayer options, and a friendly real-time game engine are blended with a depth of plot in a way that redefines the genre.

Features:

• 10,000 scrolling game screens
• 7 chapters with dozens of subplots
• Hundreds of intricately rendered and visually stunning hi-res buildings
• Guide a party of up to 5 characters, each with their own personalities and dispositions
• Create your own character
• Versatile and responsive plot
• Entertaining character interaction
• Huge game world
• Friendly game engine
• 5 CDs filled with prerendered backgrounds, compelling music, and gameplay

A new chapter in the popular adventure game, based on the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, which, in turn, is based on the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game system. Essentially an add-on to the original version of the game, this chapter asks you to continue with the character you created in the original.

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Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast delivers what we've all been screaming for--more Baldur's Gate. Although it does not significantly extend the story line, it does provide enough new goodies to augment an already great game.

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast provides four new areas for you to explore, all of which share the richness that made Baldur's Gate a groundbreaking masterpiece. Players are given the opportunity to explore a few new islands, visit a suburb of Baldur's Gate, and engage in a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl beneath Durlag's Tower. Players can also embark on a quest that will take them back into the city of Baldur's Gate itself. These new quests tend to be even more involved and challenging than those found in the initial game, as they gravitate more toward puzzle solving than pure combat.

The additional areas are at least as satisfying as any found in the original, featuring three new types of monsters as well as new magic items, enemies, and spells, all of which are woven seamlessly into the game play. Those who are already deeply involved in a campaign or have already completed the game need not start over to take advantage of the expansion. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast raises the character experience cap by at least one level and can be integrated at any time during your campaign, easily providing an additional 20 hours of game play.

For a Baldur's Gate enthusiast, the four new areas alone make this expansion worth having. An added treat is the included software utility that allows players to speak to each other online via microphone, giving multiplayer games a live role-playing feel. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast may tend to give you more of the same, but in this case, you wouldn't have it any other way.

Features:

• New areas just as good as first ones
• Powerful new magic items and increased experience cap
• Enables your BG characters to get tougher, ready for Baldur's Gate 2
• Free online speech software

In Baldur's Gate (Role Playing Game of the Year, 1998), with expansion pack Tales of the Sword Coast (included in this pack), deeds are rewarded with vast treasures of legend, glory beyond compare and a world rescued from the brink of disaster!

Unleash your imagination in a fantasy world where heroes use magic, steel and their wits to battle fearsome monsters and unscrupulous villians. Guide your party of adventurers from the bustling medieval city of Baldur's Gate through hundreds of quests and challenges that will take you on a journey that you will soon not forget!

Features:

• Huge game world - 5 CD's filled with nearly 10,000 scrolling game screens in lush 16-bit SVGA graphics.
• Gripping non-linear adventure that spans 7 chapters, with dozens of subplots that branch in and out of the main scenario. Your decisions affect subsequent chapters and the entire gameworld as a whole.
• Set in TSR's best selling Forgotten Realms campagin setting, the most popular of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game worlds.
• Explore hundreds of intricately rendered and visually stunning hi-res buildings and structures: taverns, temples, houses, arenas, stores and brothels are meticulously created.
• Guide a party of up to five other characters, each with their own personalities and dispositions. Allows you to control party characters one at a time or as a group.
• Create your character from a combination of six authentic AD&D races - human, elf, half-elf, dwarf, gnome, halfling and 26 different classes - fighter, thief, cleric, mage and subclasses such as druid and specialist mage.
• Features real-time environmental effects such as rain, snow, lightning, and fog, day and night lighting, as well as interior and exterior lamps and magic spells.
• Three new world areas added to the Baldur's Gate world with the expansion - the town of Ulgoth's beard, Durlag's Tower and a mysterious island.
• Expand the game world with your party of adventurers from your current game of Baldur's Gate.
• Join up with new friends or meet old enemies - Tales of the Sword Coast works like a plug-in for Buldur's Gate. Actions in the original release impact events in the game.
• Numerous improvements in the interface and the game system based on fan input.
• More powerful spells, and additional enchanted items to be found.
• Roger Wilco Voice Communication - Discuss your gaming experience with your team in a far more personal way over the internet without having to interrupt your gameplay, audio or game performance.

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is the sequel to the "Game of the Year" Baldur's Gate. Having sold over 1 million units worldwide, it remains a top-selling PC product. Baldur's Gate II builds upon the success of the franchise and takes the RPG experience to new levels of high-fantasy gaming. Gameplay-enhancing features include 3D graphics support, dazzling new spell effects, improved multiplayer capabilities, subquests based on class, new classes and a new character race. Baldurs Gate II contains more spells, weapons and monsters than any other licensed AD&D game to date. It is the continuation of the Baldur's Gate epic plot developed by Bioware Corp (MDK2, Baldur's Gate, Tales of the Sword Coast, Neverwinter Nights) and published by Black Isle Studios (Planescape Torment, Fallout 2, Icewind Dale).

In Shadows of Amn, you face an uncertain future, with a lineage that tempts the unscrupulous to use you and the ignorant to fear you. You will face a foe that views you as no more than chattel and that toys with you at every turn; a villain whose goals go beyond a quest for power and who threatens to use a lost companion as a tool for unparalleled destruction. The choices to be made will not be easy, and you may have to align with the lesser of evils, even though all evils cannot help but seem equal. In the end you will have mourned lost loves, celebrated new ones, and had adventures that profoundly shaped the Realms.

Features:

• An epic continuation of the plot that was started in Baldur's Gate
• Over 300 spells like: time stop, finger of death, chain lightning, and more
• Over 100 subplots in the game, some taking "real-time" days to complete
• Create a new character or import your Baldur's Gate character in to Baldur's Gate 2 and continue the epic saga
• New weapons and AD&D proficiencies
• Real-time gameplay with the ability to pause at any moment and custom script your characters
• Improved multiplayer support for up to six players for the ultimate roleplaying experience

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, the add-on pack to Baldur's Gate II, expands and enriches the gameplay experience by adding several new locations, high-level spells, and powerful new characters to the Baldur's Gate II game. Set in the Forgotten Realms campaign world of Dungeons & Dragons, Throne of Bhaal is the ultimate conclusion of the Baldur's Gate legend, as gamers fulfill their destiny as the child of Bhaal, god of murder.

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal takes players through an all-new story line, rich with intrigue and treachery, as they unravel the mysteries of the Dungeon of Watcher's Keep and explore other new areas, such as the City of Saradush, the Fortified Monastery of Amkethran, Sendai's Underdark Fortress, and the player's own Abyssal Stronghold. Throughout their journey, characters may reach up to level 40, made possible with a raised experience cap of 8 million points, quite possibly the highest level ever achieved by characters in any Advanced Dungeons & Dragons computer game. Also included in the quest are more than 40 powerful high-level spells and abilities. The Wild Mage Character Kit will also be added to the already extensive class list, allowing gamers to create a powerful new character able to cast spells, with very unpredictable results.

Baldur's Gate II players will be pleased to hear that Throne of Bhaal is fully playable either while questing through their BG II adventure or after they have completed BG II.

Features:

• Adventure deep into the lands of Tethyr with a new story and add-on areas
• Achieve up to character level 32 with an experience point cap of 8 million
• Powerful high-level abilities for higher level characters.
• New Wild Mage character kit.
• Encounter dangerous new monsters
• Learn several new spells
• New map screen can allow gameplay to continue unpaused

It's not easy being a child of a god. In Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, your character quickly comes to this conclusion after being imprisoned and tortured by a wizard with an unhealthy interest in your parentage. So begins this ambitious RPG based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. Shadows of Amn develops the plot lines, characters and events introduced in the first game into a mature, genuinely interesting fantasy tale and you will be pleasantly surprised by Shadows of Amn's bold story arcs. Baldur's Gate served as a proving ground for the refined game mechanics evident in Shadows of Amn. Now major events are afoot, and the character's choices have a real impact on the universe of the Forgotten Realms.

The game's artificial intelligence has been vastly improved, and the player has many more choices for NPC AI scripts and party communication. Keeping with Shadows of Amn's more mature theme, the party interaction even goes so far as to include possible love interests for your character.

This double pack also includes the BG2 expansion pack, Throne of Bhaal. There are hordes more monsters to fight, a couple of new classes and kits to explore (the Wild Mage, for example), new treasures and artefacts, new quests and new dungeons and the ability to reach an unprecedented Level 40. Why wouldn't you want to meet strange new creatures, unleash strange new spells and listen to even more bizarre voice acting from the lovable Minsc? But the real reason to get this is to see the massive story finally reach a conclusion. There won't be a Baldur's Gate III and Throne of Bhaal lets you see the fate of the character that began as Gorion's young ward so many years ago in the original Baldur's Gate.

A strong plot backed by strong technology makes Baldur's Gate 2 and the Throne of Bhaal expansion stand out as one of the best RPGs you'll ever play. Fans of the AD&D game will love the classic AD&D feel, and fans of the popular Forgotten Realms setting will delight in the people, places and politics found here.

Features:

• Collection of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, and a bonus CD containing additional weapons and armor, set of four character portraits, as well as tracks from the original game soundtrack
• Epic Dungeons and Dragons adventure
• Isometric, top-down view gives a bird's eye view of the action
• 3-D height maps for realistic travel over terrain--actually climb stairs, fall into pits, and traverse rocky areas
• Rain, snow, fog, lightning, all occuring in real-time
• Explore unseen lands as you take part in an epic conflict that will define your future, and create your legend

Icewind Dale incorporates the award-winning gameplay elements from Baldur's Gate, offering players a chance to hone their combat skills while exploring the enormous caverns and dungeons beneath the Forgotten Realms. Players create a party of adventurers in the frigid north. They must combat monstrous cyclopses and frost giants that dwarf the player characters as they search for an evil lying deep within the Spine of the World. Icewind Dale offers character advancement from levels 1 through 15 in the most recent adaptation of AD&D rules.

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Icewind Dale intentionally avoids a sophisticated role-playing-game plot in favor of classic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons dungeoneering. The game is set in the frigid corner of the Forgotten Realms made famous by author R.A. Salvatore's novels. Many fantasy fans will be familiar with the popular setting, but this time you get to create the heroes, and the adventures are your own.

Veterans of Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment will find BioWare's Infinity game engine instantly recognizable and usable. AD&D fans will be pleased with the interpretation of AD&D 2nd Edition rules. With a few exceptions (no kits, no Drow player characters, no two-weapon fighting), you can assume that if it's in the rule books it's in Icewind Dale.

Players can create six characters from standard AD&D 2nd Edition races and classes as they set off to find an ancient evil buried in the Spine of the World. Combat occurs in real time (no turns), but the action can be paused at any time in order to issue new orders, prepare spells, or respond to a new threat. The designers keep combat fast by allowing players to assign an artificial-intelligence combat script to individual characters. Your party can encounter a minor monster, fire arrows as it approaches, attack it with fighters when it gets close, and then get healed by the cleric when the fighting is done--all without your intervention.

Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment kept players hooked with an engrossing story line and, in the case of Planescape, excellent writing. Specifically designed as a more action-oriented "hack and slash" RPG, Icewind Dale relies on combat and character advancement as its own reward. While it lacks the random dungeons and incredible magic items of Diablo, the high experience point cap and the ability to create all six of your party members make Icewind Dale a worthy addition to any AD&D fan's game library.

Features:

• Utilizes an enhanced version of the Bioware Infinity Engine as used in Baldur's Gate
• Ability to create your entire party
• Faithful re-creation of the Icewind Dale region as detailed by TSR and R. A. Salvatore
• High experience point cap lets players wield tremendous power--and face equally powerful foes
• Developed by Black Isle Studios, the group behind the bestselling role playing games Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment
• A completely new Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure with an epic storyline in the tradition of Baldur's Gate
• Includes 3D technology developed for Baldur's Gate II that allows for incredible spell and environment effects
• New spells, equipment and abilities provide a higher level of gameplay
• Multiplayer support for up to 6 players over LAN or Internet connections

Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter is the first expansion pack for the role-playing game Icewind Dale. Like all expansion packs, it requires you to own the original title in order to play. Heart of Winter shares the same time frame with Icewind Dale--the year 1281, the Year of the Cold Soul--and its five new major areas are located just north of the original game's locale. Players can take their ninth level or above Icewind Dale characters to Heart of Winter via a small house in the great tree town of Kuldahar. Alternately, players who have beaten Icewind Dale can import living or deceased characters to Heart of Winter, as long as at least one character survived with the same ninth level or above restriction. Or players can simply generate a new party.

Both Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale use AD&D Second Edition rules; however some of the special powers and abilities in the third edition are available in the expansion. For example, thieves have access to sneak attack and crippling strike abilities, and the new spell progression tables for rangers and paladins have been taken from the third edition rules. In addition to new areas, powers, and abilities, Heart of Winter features: new portraits, new character sound sets, new monsters, 50 new spells, 800 x 600 resolution, drop-away interface, gem bags, potion bags, scroll cases, hot keys that highlight normal doors and ground items, and the ability to buy multiple items from stores. The biggest change is the ability for all character classes to reach 30th level, and druids can advance higher still.

Features:

• Expansion pack to role-playing game Icewind Dale
• All character classes can advance to 30th level, and Druids can advance much higher
• Uses AD&D Second Edition rules, with some special powers and abilities from third edition
• New special abilities for Paladins, Rangers, Thieves, Bards, and Druids
• Players can import their 9th-level (or higher) Icewind Dale characters

Journey deep into the Spine of the World, a harsh and unforgiving environment teaming with merciless beasts and terrible dangers. In this exclusive adventure pack developed by award-winning Black Isle Studios, you will find the following:

1. Icewind Dale (2 CD's)
2. Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter Expansion (1CD)
3. Icewind Dale II (2 CD's)
4. Icewind Dale soundtrack
5. Icewind Dale II bonus disk
6. Icewind Dale strategy guides, trailer of IWD II

Features:

Icewind Dale

• Battle Ice Trolls, Giants, and hordes of terrifying Undead. Over 150 types of new monsters that will put your courage to the test in real-time combat.
• Adventure through a wide range of beautifully rendered environments, from ancient ruins to volcanic caverns and icy plains.
• Multiplayer support for up to six players over LAN or Internet connections.

• Continue your adventure in five huge new areas that add directly into the original Icewind Dale.
• Hack your way through a host of never-before-seen monsters to discover over 100 new items and 59 new spells.

• Conquer hordes of monsters in epic battles utilizing the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rule set.
• Cast over 300 powerful spells, clash with fierce new monsters, and collect hundreds of new items on your journey.
• Embark on your adventure with a pre-made party, or customize each character.
• Multiplayer support for up to six players for the ultimate gaming experience.

The worst fear of the civilized realms has come true. The Goblinoids have united into an army of outcasts and misfits and they want to call the Ten Towns their own. Massive swarms of Orcs and Worg-mounted Goblins are attempting to overrun the town of Targos, and that's just the beginning! A call has gone out to all those willing to face insurmountable odds in defense of the Ten Towns. Will you heed the call to arms and face the greatest threat to the Spine of the World?

Return to the frigid north of the Forgotten Realms in the sequel to the critically acclaimed Icewind Dale. This exciting high-fantasy action adventure unites 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, new character classes, and races. Enhancements such as auto-balancing game play and an upgraded Infinity Engine will allow for more dynamic battles than ever before. Icewind Dale II will appeal to both action-RPG fans and players new to the genre.

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Icewind Dale II expands upon gameplay elements found in Icewind Dale, offering players the ability to hone their combat skills and achieve even more powerful possessions, spells, and experience. Icewind Dale II hosts a large variety of new weapons, armour and magical items and features, as well as all the spells from Icewind Dale and its expansion pack. Additionally, Icewind Dale II includes over 50 new spells such as Executioner's Eyes and Aegis, bringing the total to over 300 spells.

A generation after the events in Icewind Dale, a grave new threat has arisen in the North; a threat that seeks to cut off the Ten-Towns from the rest of Faerun in a bitter power struggle. A vicious horde of goblins, orcs and bugbears has gathered beneath the mysterious banner of the Chimera and is attacking the port town of Targos.

The town of Bremen has fallen, goblin raiders ride the plains, and a stream of refugees are fleeing southwards to Bryn Shander and beyond. Fearing that they will be overrun, Targos has sent out a call for all able-bodied adventurers, soldiers and mercenaries to sail north to stand with the town's defenders against the encroaching horde, and it's up to the players' small band of adventurers to save Targos from destruction. Yet nothing is as it appears and as the shadow of the horde falls on Targos, the players find themselves drawn into an escalating conflict that plunges the region of Icewind Dale once again, into war.

Features:

• Epic party-based Dungeons and Dragons adventure
• Full implementation of D&D 3rd Edition rules
• Same old glorious tactical gameplay as the Baldur's Gate series
• New playable races such as the sinister Dark Elf and the skull-smashing Half-Orc
• Auto-balancing game-play balances the conflict to match your skill level
• Real-time combat with the ability to pause at any moment to refine your strategy
• Improved multiplayer support for up to 6 players