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Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (PoR2) is a Dungeons & Dragons fantasy RPG based on the popular 3rd Edition of the Dungeons and Dragons rules. I bet most of RPG fans expected a Baldur's Gate with 3e rules, a deep, rewarding role-playing experience with customizable characters, non-linearity and questing galore. Unfortunately Pool of Radiance 2 is nothing of that.The game looked like it might've been fun, but there is almost no role playing, it's all about hack and slash. When everything is about combat, combat should be perfectly implemented right? But it isn't :( The combat interface is stupid at some times, ruining your planning more often than leading to success. For example, it is completely impossible to disengage from a fight - you just can't run or hide. This isn't what I call role-playing, is it? :) Also the game's navigation and view system, which prohibits you from breaking up your party and using one member to scout ahead, and which limits your view of the game world to a relatively small, unscrollable area. This doesn't say the game is unplayable, but it can be quite frustrating - click the wrong menu item, and you are done. What about 3rd Edition D&D rules? , well rules are implemented, but I found several things very disappointing. First of all, you can't roll your starting characters, but you spend points on you basic stats. Second, you can't choose your skills, or feats, and some of the feats you get are rather useless for your class. The last thing that disappointed me is the lack of skills and feats allowed, and the fact that you can't equip even two weapons. So should you buy this game? :) It's really hard to write some final word, strongly depends what you expecting from this game. If you are looking for a deep role-playing experience comparable with Baldur's Gate II, you will be pretty disappointed, so much the worse PoR2 isn't what it promised to be.
Download playable demo (90MB) and visit official Pool of Radiance homepage. If you already bought this game, don't forget to download the first patch which fixes uninstall and install errors, and the second patch (2.2MB) which fixes various save games problems and a multiplayer connection problem.