This game is another accomplishment of Bioware. RPG at it's best
The game starts you off as a student of a fighting academy. After a short but effective tutorial the academy get's attacked. The rest is up to you to find out.
Graphics: This game is still beautiful years later. Alot of the environments are great to look and play with. D&D based games get more beautiful.Your items weapons and armor look's great. Spells are absolutely captivating and beautiful. The best thing is the toolset that Bioware included with the game. You can manipulate environments to look better.
GAMEPLAY: This is where it really comes in. The D&D die set system is great. You got your standard customizations and races. You can equip your character with weapons and armor that shows it equipped in real time. Combat is very shifting. You have skills and magic you can use to defeat your enemies. They can block counter or resist. There are sidequests that have interesting paths and you can choose to do any quest alot of ways. You also recieve 1 henchmen who can be chosen. There's also a bunch of RPG elements tied in like if you attack a person in town the guards will come rushing to kill you.
STORY: The game is absolutely great at storytelling. You have side quests that have interesting dialogue and plots. Your henchman depending on what type you chose also have interesting storylines and plots. The main story is a major plot twist but that can be seen a mile away. Also you have entertaining dialogue everywhere.
SOUND:The game's music is great but the other weapon effects sound bad. It seems more like a club hitting a wall repeatdedly. There's also the pain of the looped soundtrack. It's too short and it's get annoying. Spell sounds are great.
MULTIPLAYER: This game will have a hold on you for the years to come. Even years later after it's initial release the game still boasts a familar playerbase. The joy of this is alot of the servrers have there own unique module so you do not have to play the camapaign cooperatively you can play your own modules. The community is also excellent. People help you in introducing how new modules work and there's none of the immature children attitude seen much.