As Baldur's Gate turns 20, we remember why it was great
Baldur's Gate is 20-years-old. The influential role-playing game came out on 21st December 1998.
Baldur's Gate was developed by BioWare and published by Interplay, and takes place in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. It was built with the Infinity Engine, which Interplay would also use for other Forgotten Realms games such as Icewind Dale, and D&D game Planescape: Torment.
The game was a critical and commercial success, with impressively high review scores and higher than expected sales. There's no Eurogamer review of Baldur's Gate (Eurogamer didn't spark into life until 1999), but Paul Dean penned a retrospective of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 for us back in 2012.
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