promising but killed by poor menus, dull combat and out of place new classes
Even though I'd played D&D games before, character creation was a chore, the game gives you no help or suggestions as to which stats are important to which class, so there is a lot of back tracking in character creation to get things right; if you arn't experienced in D&D, bring a pen and paper to keep track of what stats you have and need.
oh, and you need to do that for pretty much every character in your party, unless you want a pre made character, but who plays RPGs to develop someone elses character?
into the game, battles are fun for the most part, walk, enter an area, get ambushed by whatever, look around to see whats attacking you, find them, kill them, recover, next battle. things get very hard if one party member stumbles into the next area ahead of your main party, they get ambushed and killed, then your surviving members have to recover your dead teammate and fight off the monsters. not fun.
recovering items isdull, have your rogue open the chests to get the loot, then move your rogue away to get a character with spare carrying space to carry the loot. its a chore, which only gets worse
after the battle, selling your loot and restocking is far too much of a pain. working out which characters can use the stuff you found is tedious, getting the items from whoever was carrying it to the person who needs it is worse. this game is killed by its clumsy menus
finally, the new character classes. I actually tried a psionic warrior in my party, it doesn't add much and it it very out of place, the new classes are, IMO, a mistake
all in all this game is a wasted oppertunity. avoid