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Baldur's Gate was the first game to use the Infinity Engine for its graphics. Interplay went on to use the engine for other Forgotten Realms-licensed games including the Icewind Dale series, as well as other licensed D&D campaign worlds such as Planescape, setting of Planescape: Torment. The engine would later be enhanced for use in a remake of the game entitled Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, the first game in the franchise in nearly nine years.[

Gameplay

Baldur's Gate takes place in the fictional world of Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms setting.[4] The mechanics of the gameplay were coded to conform to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition role-playing rules, though various elements from the ruleset were modified to allow the game to be executed in pausable real-time mode.[4] Hence, although each character is in constant action, the game allows the player to pause the activity at any time,[4][5] or set the game to automatically pause at preset points in combat.[6] The game features a top-down isometric perspective and real-time third-person combat system on pre-rendered backgrounds.[4][7] It is also possible to script combat behavior for characters, such that they are able to act and respond to changing situations without explicit guidance from the player. Baldurs Gate Download free Full Version.

Character creation involves selecting various characteristics, such as class, race, alignment, abilities, and skills.[6] During the game, past and present events are related to the player through dialogue, written text, journal entries, or cut scenes. Dialogue is initiated when the player clicks on computer controlled characters. This generates written and sometimes spoken dialogue with a short list of responses from which the player can select. Such interactions can lead to quests or missions.[8]

The game is separated into seven chapters interspersed with segments of spoken dialogue. Free exploration of the world map is allowed in every chapter,[4] though some areas are not unlocked until the player's character (PC) advances to a certain point in the game. The PC begins as a weak character, poorly equipped and without allies. As the game progresses, the player discovers new and more powerful equipment and magic, and can recruit a party of up to six characters, including the PC.[4] Experience points are gained through completing quests and killing monsters; at predetermined point thresholds the characters' levels increase, resulting in improved abilities and skills. Characters are limited to a maximum amount of 89,000 experience points.[9] The game includes over one hundred side quests.[6]

The flow of time during the game is expressed by changes in lighting and the opening and closing of most shops, with an increased likelihood of combat encounters during the night. Taverns are open during the night, but there are no changes in the presence of customers or the barkeeper to reflect the flow of time. The troupe of characters controlled by the player will become fatigued after traveling for a full day, and require rest to recover. Baldurs Gate Game free Download Full Version.

Plot

Setting

The western shore of Faerûn along the Sea of Swords, called the Sword Coast, contains a multitude of ecologies and terrains, including mountains, forests, plains, cities, and ruins.[11] The region encompassed by the game is bordered to the south by the Cloud Peaks, the east by the Wood of Sharp Teeth, the west by the Sea of Swords, and the north by Baldur's Gate, which is the largest and most affluent city in the region. The characters travel the countryside, exploring the various towns, dungeons, mines, forests, castle ruins, and Baldur's Gate itself, confronting the clandestine plots of organizations like the Zhentarim, the Red Wizards of Thay, The Iron Throne, the Flaming Fist, The Chill, The Black Talons, and the Harpers, investigating a conspiracy between the groups, and finding out the main character's own ancestry and history.

Characters

Main article: List of Baldur's Gate characters

Baldur's Gate includes several canon characters from the official Forgotten Realms campaign setting, such as Cadderly Bonaduce, Drizzt Do'Urden, Volothamp Geddarm, and Elminster.

Story

At the beginning of the game, the Sword Coast has entered a difficult time: iron production has virtually halted, with metal already produced quickly 'rotting', tools and weapons breaking easily as a result (except magical weapons), while bandits scour the countryside seeking iron over any other treasure.[4] Before the game's story begins, the protagonist and their friend Imoen, had grown up together in Candlekeep,[8] an ancient fortress-turned-library in the rural Sword Coast region south of Baldur's Gate, under the tutelage of their guardian, the mage Gorion, both of whom were brought in as orphans. Gorion, sensing trouble, decides to leave Candlekeep with the protagonist (known as Gorion's Ward), explaining nothing of importance other than to move on; during this time, Gorion's Ward finds themselves attacked by a couple of men seeking their death. The night after leaving Candlekeep, the pair are ambushed by a group of bandits led by a mysterious armoured figure. When Gorion refuses to hand over his ward, he is attacked by the bandits; Gorion defeats most of them but dies in doing so at the hands of the armoured figure, but does enough to allow his ward to escape. In the morning they encounter Imoen,[8] who had followed in secret after reading a note about the journey on Gorion's desk; the protagonist finds this and learns not much except that Gorion had known his ward was in danger. Baldurs Gate game free Download for PC Full Version.

With no secure hiding place to use (Candlekeep demands a unique, valuable book as its admission fee, while the city of Baldur's Gate closed itself off to outsiders from fear of bandit hordes), Gorion's ward, choosing to find allies to survive further attacks on their life, opts to investigate the cause of the iron shortage, dubbed the «Iron Crisis» by travelling south to the source of the iron supplies in the region, the mines of Nashkel. In doing so, they begins to unearth a deeper conspiracy, after finding out that kobolds had been contaminating the iron in the Nashkel mine and killing miners, along with finding documents from the person controlling them that connects the operation with the iron-hunting bandits, ultimately leading the protagonist and their party to a secret camp-site of the bandits. In actuality, they find the group, a mixture of humans and humanoids mercenary companies, are in the employ of The Iron Throne, a mysterious organization which is aggressively expanding its influence in the area. The Iron Throne's intentions remain unclear to the party, but they find that the group have a working iron mine in the region, located deep within the Cloakwood forest. As the protagonist sabotages the mercenaries' installation in the Cloakwood mines, the pressure on Baldur's Gate from bandits by that time is relieved enough for the city to be re-opened, allowing them and their party to confront the local Iron Throne leaders at their headquarters.

In Baldur's Gate, the group are either enrolled by the Flaming Fist city guard to investigate the Iron Throne (after initially helping them to investigate issues in a rival merchant organisation (orchestrated by the Iron Throne) along with the disappearance of people), or enter the headquarters and recruited afterwards, but find no damning evidence within despite the choice, learning that one of the regional leaders took it with them to a meeting in Candlekeep. This forces Gorion's Ward and the party to head back there and spy on a meeting of the Iron Throne leaders. While much has changed in Candlekeep since the protagonist left, it is soon revealed that the fortress has been at least partially taken over by Doppelgängers, while they also encounters a mysterious man named Koveras; in reality, he is really Sarevok, seeking to do something about the party's leader. While investigating the fortress, the party are charged (rightfully or falsely, depending on the player's choices) with the murder of the Iron Throne leaders and imprisoned until they can be transported to Baldur's Gate. However, one of those not convinced of the charges (or knowing that Gorion's Ward's actions were justified), provides the party with the only route of escape — through the catacombs below the monastery. Managing to escape the catacombs, and returning to Baldur's Gate, they find things having taken a turn for the worse, as the party is framed for the murder of an Iron Throne leader[citation needed], along with causing the Iron Crisis, assassinating one of the ciy's Grand Dukes, and poisoning another who leads the Flaming Fists. This forces them to stay hidden while working to uncover the truth, finally uncovering a grand scheme masterminded by Sarevok, the man who slew Gorion.[8]

Seeking to confront Sarevok, the party discover that he is actually half-brother to the protagonist, and that both are children of the dead god Bhaal,[8] the Lord of Murder. The main character's Bhaalspawn ancestry explains much about the past, and raises questions about the future, while Sarevok's plans turn out to be much more sinister. The Iron Throne had originally created the Iron Crisis, simply to create a monopoly on iron and thus get rich when they sold to the city at exorbitant prices, yet Sarevok was using the plan to fuel his own intentions, and seeking to stop his foster father, one of the regional leaders, from thwarting them, killed them and the others so as to continue his plan, framing the party as a result. Through manipulation of politics and resources, Sarevok then planned to start a war of sacrifice between Baldur's Gate and the kingdom of Amn to the south, causing enough carnage to become the new Lord of Murder. However, the party thwarts this, and chases after him under the city, where the protagonist defeats Sarevok and sends his tainted soul back to Bhaal. Baldurs Gate Free Download Torrent.