Fan favorite hack-and-slash Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is getting a 4K re-release

Fans of hack-and-slash action RPGs are in for a treat. The original Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is receiving a 4K re-release on mod consoles, courtesy of Interplay, almost twenty years afterwards its original release.

According to the newly released trailer, Baldur'southward Gate: Dark Alliance will be releasing this Friday, May seven, for the Xbox One, Xbox Serial X | S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch, with a PC and mobile release coming after this yr. It will exist available for $thirty.

The re-release of the dear classic — an isometric dungeon crawler that features similar gameplay to the Diablo series — will include high-resolution graphics merely seems to maintain the original game'southward presentation. The game will also include 2-player co-op throughout its entrada. Baldur'due south Gate: Dark Alliance takes place in the world of The Forgotten Realms, the campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons in all of its editions.

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was received well when it first released on the PlayStation 2 and original Xbox in 2001. It spawned a sequel, Baldur'south Gate: Dark Alliance 2, and its engine was used in the exclusive PS2 EverQuest spinoff, Champions of Norrath. It's a classic RPG that should fit in well with the rest of the excellent RPGs available on Xbox and should hold Diablo fans over until Diablo 2 Resurrected releases afterwards this year.

Information technology also spawned the spiritual successor, Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance, gear up to launch this summer. The new game, developed by Tuque Games, switches the perspective to a third-person over-the-shoulder viewpoint that has more in mutual with Gears of State of war than Diablo.

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