Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is an action role-playing game developed by Snowblind Studios for the PlayStation 2 and later for the Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, originally released in 2001. It began the Dark Alliance series of games. The battle system in the game is simplistic, but includes customizable aspects. The human archer, for example, can assign experience points to enchanting arrows rather than to strength, which will result in more powerful arrows. Likewise, the Elven sorceress is capable of selecting between different spells. However, starting character statistics are preset and the player may only customize his or her character's statistics through gaining experience points.

There are also relatively few non-player characters: the only characters who may be spoken to are those who are part of a quest or sidequest. Dark Alliance was built on a much more powerful game engine than the PC Baldur's Gate series, which utilized the Infinity Engine - an engine debuting in 1998 which exclusively used sprite characters and static, pre-rendered backgrounds. The Dark Alliance engine allowed for such things as dynamic lighting, real-time shadowing, fully rendered backgrounds and 3d character models.

Codes

Cheat Codes
At the character choice screen, press and hold the following codes to get the desired cheat:

Simultaneously press and hold L, R, X and Right on the D-Pad - 190,000 experience, 500 skill points and all or most spells/feats.

Hold X + L + R (half-way) + Left, then press Z - Cheat Menu

Simultaneously hold L, R, Y, Left on the D-Pad and press start - Invulnerability and Level Warp

At the character choice screen, press and hold L and R, then tap A. Keep pressing L and R until Drizzt comes onto the screen - Play as Drizzt

Unlockables

Beat the game to earn the following:

Extreme Mode - Beat the Gauntlet Level to unlock Extreme Difficulty

Gauntlet Level - Beat the game under any difficulty.

Play as Drizzt - Beat the game under extreme difficulty to be able to play as Drizzt.

Glitches

Easy item duplication
In order to make this work, you must have at least two save files on your game. With this secret, you can easily duplicate items between saved games. First, load the game that you wish to put the items into (or start a new game.) It must be a one player game. Pause the game and go to the change character option. Highlight the second player window and hit ''Y'' to import the character with the items you wish to duplicate. Select the saved file you wish to import from and then choose the character from that saved game. Hit ''A'' to confirm, the game will reload and both characters will be in the game. Have the character with the good items drop all of his items.

Then go back to the change character menu and delete that character from the game. You are left with your first character and all the items the second character dropped. You can sell these or use them. You can actually do this unlimited times, sell all the items and make tons of money.

Secrets

Have your character as level 26 in 5 minutes.
Once you start a new game, choose any character , use the level warp and go to the 3 last Onix Tower floor. (The one with the huge monster) GO to the room with the Large Iron golem and kill it. (does not matter how) You should then level up to Level 26 in one go.

Keep playing your character after you beat the game
This is similar to the item duplication secret. If you have beaten the game and still wish to play one player games with that character, here is how you can. Start a new game with anyone. Import the character you beat the game with into this game. Then delete the beginning player from the game. Your character, who should be around Level. 17 or 18, will be back on the first level of the cellar and you can go through the entire game again.

Here's some gameplay footage from this great RPG: