I had the exclusive opportunity to get a first look at this ambitious mod for Dragon Age: Origins. The mod attempts to recreate the Baldur's Gate 2 game with a new engine, and does so brilliantly! My article has a full review and synopsis.

Baldur's Gate II has been ogled from afar for the better part of this decade by players of the past. Despite countless mods that revitalize the original game, few modders have been so ambitious - and even fewer successful - as to port over content from BG2 into an existing, higher-tech engine. So when it was promised that the mod would be produced for Dragon Age: Origins, the entire BioWare community stood by with bated breath. Everyone knew the routine: a group of ambitious modders enters the scene with little grasp for how large the undertaking is, only to mysteriously vanish weeks later. That was not the case with Team BGR (Baldur's Gate Redux), who have now just put the finishing touches on the first 'module' of the BG2R mod. Exiting a ten month long development cycle, the Irenicus' Dungeon Module is fully available for free download.

When asked about the mod, the developers mentioned...

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