Last year's Champions of Norrath was a satisfying but flawed attempt to marry the slick hack-and-slash action of the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series with online functionality, courtesy of a switch to publisher Sony Online Entertainment and its EverQuest universe. For better or for worse, despite the name change, the game was functionally unchanged from its incarnation as Dark Alliance, as it sprung from the minds of the same developers and utilized much the same technology.