What's the deal with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2?

[Joe Molotov]

I was catching up on some PS2 RPG's that I missed, and I noticed that Dark Alliance 2 is selling on eBay for like $30-50 while Dark Alliance 1 is pulling in around $5-8. I looked at GameRankings and DA1 has ~84% compared to DA2's ~81%.  However, I looked on Wikipedia, and apparently DA2 was actually developed by Black Isle and it was their last game before they went bust. I didn't know that.

Are people paying a premium for DA2 just because of the Black Isle connection, or was this game actually that good? Is it still worth playing today? Does it have lots of phat lewt?

[Smooth Groove]

I loved DA1 but couldn't really get into DA2 because it just seemd like more of the same.  Friends have told me that DA2 was better overall even though DA1 was a fresher experience. 

[Joe Molotov]

I went ahead and bought a copy. It was pretty cheap so I can just flip it if it comes to that. I played the first dungeon...pretty rough.  It was so monochrome and featureless that I could even tell where I was going (minimap defaults to OFF, which is not a good idea), and the smudgy, low-res graphics didn't help the situation. All I know is that little green blobs kept running at me and I'd hack em with my sword when they got close. I think they were goblins. I'll stick with it for a little while longer and see what happens though. According to IGN's review, it's only around 10 hours long, so I might just save it for some boring afternoon.

[Mondain]

the game is relatively rare, it came out just before Interplay was about to fold and few copies were produced

35$ for a used Xbox copy at the local EBGames

[MrAngryFace]

I managed to find a copy, but ill agree with Smooth here, the game may have been better, but it didnt feel different enough for me to get as fired up about playin it.

[APF]

I'm basically with everyone else.  Liked one bored by two.

Now I'm playing Titan Quest 

[jiji]

BGDA1 bored me to tears. Diablo lite FTL. BGDA2, with its item-crafting system and more interesting classes, actually kept me interested for the whole game.