Image: Larian Studios What’s different from Original Sin 2? If you had told me this was Original Sin 3, I wouldn’t have been shocked. You can still set pools of oil ablaze with a well-placed fire spell (a Divinity staple), and you’ll still do more damage by reaching a higher elevation.Īfter watching the demo, Baldur’s Gate 3 feels like it has 80% of the DNA that Original Sin 2 had. In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can still use the physics engine to shove someone off a high ledge (or drop a heavy box on them), as you can in the Divinity games. Meanwhile, in the Divinity games, environmental interactions and reaching high ground are integral strategies that can make or break a fight. Mostly, playing Baldur’s Gate was about casting spells, swinging swords, and doing direct damage. Combat all took place on the same plane or level, so elevation wasn’t a concern - and there weren’t any environmental interactions (a fireball turning a pool of water to steam, for example) either.

The original Baldur’s Gate engine, designed in 2D, had no physics to speak of. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, for example, I can sneak up behind an enemy guard standing at the top of a wall and push him off with a physics-based shove. So it makes sense that Divinity developer Larian Studios would tackle the return of the storied franchise.īut there’s a problem with that: The Divinity games play very differently from the Baldur’s Gate games. Image: Larian Studios Divinity with a D&D coat of paint?ĭivinity: Original Sin and its sequel are stellar modern takes on the classic computer role-playing game (CRPG) genre, originally made famous by games like Baldur’s Gate.

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