Black Isle Studio's have announced that they intend to develop a Baulders Gate game for the Playstation 2:

``We recognize the tremendous demand for a Baldur's Gate game on PlayStation 2,'' stated Feargus Urquhart, Black Isle Studios Division Director. ``We're totally committed to making Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance a completely original experience that both console gamers and RPG fans will enjoy.''

While maintaining the flair of the original games, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance will be an entirely new action adventure experience opening the Baldur's Gate franchise to a much wider gaming community. Faithful adaptation of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules set, customizable player characters and character development allows for an engrossing gameplay experience new to console gamers. Dramatic new spell effects and powerful new abilities have been included to add to the flavor of the action-packed game and assist the player in combat against the terrifying monsters found in the adventure.

``We are developing the game from the ground up to take full advantage of the sophisticated PlayStation 2 technology,'' stated Ryan Geithman, Director of Snowblind Studios. ``Our goal is to push the hardware to its limits thus creating stunning environmental effects and highly detailed characters never before seen on the console.''

Check out the full press release here.

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