Baldur's Gate
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Baldur's Gate is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment. It is the first game in the Baldur's Gate series and takes place in the Forgotten Realms, a high fantasy campaign setting, using a modified version of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) 2nd edition rules. It was the first game to use the Infinity Engine for its graphics, with Interplay using the engine for other Forgotten Realms-licensed games, includi
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- Developer
- BioWare · BioWare Edmonton
- Publisher
- Interplay Entertainment · Black Isle Studios
- Release · PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Worldwide — Dec 21, 1998
- Worldwide — Jan 1999
- Worldwide — Jan 30, 1999
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