This remaster zooms out and makes the game less gruelingly slow, but I'm not sure that's a good thing. Nevertheless, lives up to the hype. The sequel is ironically probably a better intro for someone who has never played a CRPG before, because low-level DM-less D&D is just as dull and tedious as you'd expect it to be.

The new characters are MOR but the middle campaign Dragonspear is excellent insofar as giving you a taste of what real fun combat will look like in 2 and Throne of Bhaal.