Deja Review: Baldur’s Gate – Enhanced Edition
This is a Deja Review: A quick look at the new features and relative agelessness of a remade, revived or re-released game. Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition isn’t the first Overhaul Games re-release to grace this column. That accolade belongs to MDK2 HD. As the name suggests, the 2000 BioWare game underwent a visual facelift in the care of the appropriately named Overhaul.
Despite Baldur’s Gate being even older than MDK2, and Overhaul likely doing even more work underneath its hood, the developer’s name doesn’t sit as right with Enhanced Edition. An overhaul implies, at least to me, the taking apart of something, messing around with its innards until it looks and feels like something very new. That’s not what this is.
BG:EE’s tune-ups, additions, and even its graphical tweaks aren’t there to dazzle, but simply to enhance. If Baldur’s Gate is the seminal face of BioWare’s RPG beginnings, then Enhanced Edition is its graceful make-up, and Overhaul the doting stylist straining to make sure it all blends in. This delicate approach is admirable, but en vogue it definitely ain’t.
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