The title says it all. This game is simply awesome. My collection of PC games is enormous. 10 years worth of PC games, and i would have to place this in my top 5 favorite games. Everything about this game is done just perfect. The story is amazing, the controls are just right, and the character development is extensive. The game can get very difficult at times if you haven't taken the time to properly advance your characters, train skills/spells, or just failure to use different combat tactics depending on what you are fighting. It's not your typical linear cakewalk, like so many RPGs are nowadays. In fact, its not linear at all. You are free to do whatever you want when you want. You can even kill every citizen of every town if you wanted to. Doing so, however, gets many people angry at you to say the least. :)

The value of the game is limitless. When you start the game, you create a party of 4 adventurers. Depending on which classes you compose your party of changes the way you play thru the game. A balanced party will make the game much easier. Whereas a party consisting of 4 sorcerers will be EXTREMELY difficult to play, especially at the beginning of the game. Try odd parties for a challenge once you know the game very well.

All in all, a perfectly put together game. A+++