 They signed a partnership with American publisher Interplay Productions to get investment and development resources for their first game "Shattered Steel", a mech simulation action game released in 1996.The game was a modest success, but BioWare's second title, "Baldur's Gate" (1998), achieved overwhelming critical praise and defined the company's future direction.A role-playing video game (RPG) based on "Dungeons & Dragons", "Baldur's Gate" sold more than two million copies and became the most successful "Dungeons & Dragons" game ever at the time.