Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance reviewed on Xbox and PC by Travis Northup. Also available on PlayStation.
I badly wanted Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance to be an awesome co-op version of the pencil-and-paper tabletop RPGs I've loved for decades, but it just isn't. It's a bland, boring trek through repetitive encounters that's filled with bugs and annoying design choices, and though it allows you to play alone you absolutely should not do that because it's an imbalanced nightmare. I can praise its faithful look and feel, which captures much of what makes Forgotten Realms a great setting, but there's very little else to recommend about this unpolished mess of a hack-and-slash RPG.
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