How BIG is Baldurs Gate?
The game is roughly 10,000 game screens large (each is 512×384 pixels, in 640×480 resolution) and these screens scroll contiguously – you walk around and the ground scrolls under your character’s feet, just as though you are watching them from 100 feet in the sky. A final playing time is still unknown, but it is probably close to 100+ hours of story, including subquests and side adventures. The area represented by the game area is from Baldur’s Gate in the North, to the Wood of Sharp Teeth in the East, to the Cloud Peak mountains and Amn in the South – representing about 300 square miles, compressed down to the interesting bits.
