The city of Baldur’s Gate is replaced by the frigid land of Icewind Dale. Along with the new visual style also comes a new setting. The reasoning behind this, as given by Tuque Games head Jeff Hattem is, “We wanted to bring in the camera to have a more intimate, visceral experience with the harshness of Icewind Dale”. The series’ classic top-down perspective is being replaced by a more immersive third-person view. The first big change is the game’s perspective. “Join up to 4 friends, online or on the couch, and battle iconic monsters from Dungeons & Dragons in a new co-op action RPG.” The webpage for ‘Dark Alliance: Dungeons & Dragons’ describes the game as follows:
It is being described as a “spiritual successor” to the older ‘Dark Alliance’ games.Įssentially, what this means is that while ‘Dark Alliance: Dungeons & Dragons’ will retain a lot of the gameplay and design principles that made the original so great, it will incorporate its own visual style and gameplay mechanics. However, the new game will not be a sequel or even successor to the original games. Just like the previous games in the franchise, ‘Dark Alliance: Dungeons & Dragons’ is a co-op hack and slash action RPG. So, what can we expect from the long-awaited reboot of the ‘Dark Alliance’ series? Read on to find out everything we know.ĭark Alliance: Dungeons & Dragons: What to Expect? At least, that was the case until the franchise was revived with the announcement of a new game titled ‘Dark Alliance: Dungeons & Dragons’ late last year. The game was essentially a console ready version of the original ‘Baldur’s Gate’, eschewing its slow, deliberate RPG mechanics in favor of more action-packed hack and slash gameplay.Ī sequel titled ‘Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II’ was released a few years later in 2004, but the series has pretty much been dead in the water since then for the past 15 years or so. In order to provide console players with a taste of ‘Baldur’s Gate’, Snowblind studios released ‘Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance’ for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube and Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2001. However, the game was restricted to the PC platform at the time, partly due to hardware and control scheme limitations of the consoles.
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