GameSpy, GameSpot, and IGN awarded it their "Role-Playing Game of the Year" awards for 2000, and the game has sold more than two million units.
In the United States, Baldur's Gate II entered PC Data's computer game sales charts at #5 during the September 1723 period.[120] It rose to second place the following week, behind The Sims: Livin' Large, while its Collector's Edition captured the seventh position.[121] In its first 14 days, Baldur's Gate II drew in revenues of $4 million across all SKUs in North America, a sales record for an Interplay computer title
Baldur's Gate II received critical acclaim upon its release,[148] and is listed as the seventh highest-scoring PC game on the review aggregator Metacritic (as of November 2022).
Awards Baldur's Gate II has been honored many times. GameSpot, GameSpy, and IGN awarded it their "Role-Playing Game of the Year" awards in 2000,[169][171][172] and it won GameSpot's Readers' Choice Game of the Year award for that year.[168] It received three "Gaming Globe" awards from Eurogamer in 2001: Best Game, Best Art Direction, and Best Male Supporting Character (for Minsc).[166] The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences honored Shadows of Amn with the "Character or Story Development" award at the 4th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; the game also received nominations for the "Game of the Year", "PC Game of the Year", "PC Role-Playing", and "Game Play Engineering" categories.[165] IGN placed it at No. 25 on their 2005 "Top 100 Games of All Time" list.[173] In 2006, though not ranking in the top five games, it earned an "honorable mention" in Gamasutra's Quantum Leap Awards.[178] Baldur's Gate II was inducted into GameSpot's "Greatest Games of All Time" list.[170] In 2009, Game Informer placed Baldur's Gate II at No. 88 on their list of "The Top 200 Games of All Time", calling it "the best Dungeons & Dragons game ever made". This is up one place from their top 100 list in 2001.[167][179] Empire ranked it No. 19 on their list of the 100 Greatest Games.[180] At the end of 2009, Baldur's Gate II, though not quite making the Top 12 list, received an honorable mention in Gamasutra's Game of the Decade, where readers voted for their best game of the 2000s.[181] In 2010, on IGN's Top 25 Modern PC Games, Baldur's Gate II clocked in at No. 2.[174] In 2013, it was placed at No. 46 on GamingBolt's "Top 100 greatest video games ever made".[182] IGN ranked Baldur's Gate II No. 1 on their list of "The Top 11 Dungeons & Dragons Games of All Time" in 2014.[183] Ian Williams of Paste rated the game No. 2 on his list of "The 10 Greatest Dungeons and Dragons Videogames" in 2015.[184] IGN ranked Baldur's Gate II No. 3 on their "Top 100 RPGs of All Time" list.[185] In 2016, PC Gamer noted the game on their "best RPGs of all time".[186] It was placed at No. 9 on Game Informer's "Top 100 RPGs Of All Time" list,[187] and was included among PCGamesN's "best RPGs on PC" as well.[188]
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