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,
including the Icewind Dale series, as well as other licensed D&D campaign worlds
such as Planescape: Torment. The game's story focuses on players controlling a
protagonist of their own creation who finds themselves travelling across the Sword Coast
alongside a party of companions, to unravel the mystery surrounding a sudden iron crisis
affecting the region and attempting to discover the culprits behind it, all while
uncovering dark secrets about their origins and dealing with attempts on their
life.
