Planescape Torment - Widescreen Mod

All of the excitement around the Diablo 3 announcement has encouraged me to go back and visit some other more classic RPG's I missed the first time around. Namely Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal. I found an awesome mod that converts any game based on the Infinity Engine (this includes the BG series, Icewind Dale Series and or course Planescape Torment - which originally could only be played in 640x480!)

Here are some screenshots of Planescape Torment in full widescreen

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/05/29/planescape-landscapes/

Here's the mod

http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/

I wonder why no one does the same thing with the likes of Diablo 2 or Fallout?

But that's actually sweet. Never knew about this.

An interesting thing about Torment is that it could've been in a higher resolution, but the deal BIS had with Bioware prevented them from releasing any Infinity engine games in a resolution other than 640x480 until BG2 came out. It makes sense that it'd be easy to patch higher, wide-screen resolutions into the games.

Fallout, on the other hand, would probably require a hefty code rewrite to be able to support higher resolutions.

That's interesting to know; updated my journal.SpaceMoose

Yeah, very cool to know. Thank you.