Ok got the demo.

After reading a few forum posts, I thought the demo was incomplete, with horrible voice acting and awful combat.
With grim thoughts I downloaded and installed the demo. I ran it and came to the menu. First, I waited a bit and listened to the music. Not Kirill's best but acceptable. Then I started my character creation...
I was amazed by so many choices. Sure NWN allowed you to select fat, slim or normal but here the customization is excellent: Hair colour, Hair style, Body type, face, gender. Also I expected to have to chose from fighter/mage/thief but there's a fourth, custom option! Well, I didn't bother much with the skills and stats so I took Survivor, with survivol skills.
Then came the ability to customize your deathknight. Of course, his name and appearance is already defined and you cannot change it but you chose his stats and skills. Since I thought about playing a ranger, I made my DK a fighter for protection. As I started the game, I watched as the DK entered the cell and prepared for worst: from the forum posts I read, the actor who did the voice should be horribly mutilated with a watermelon. To my surprise, the DK spoke in exactly the SAME voice as I wanted him to. A bit monotonous, a little disdainful, with a slight european accent. I started speaking with him and in a while, we went exploring the cells.
Now about the graphics: they're good. Not excellent but I've seen much worse. The animations seemed abit ghostly at the beginning but as I progressed and added points into agility and speed, my characters became faster. At full zoom, as expected the background becomes blurry, but it's still a useful feature for combat. The spell effects are as well done as DD's.
The controls were better than I expected. As soon as I started, I decided to throw some junk arround. It worked just like in DD. I had no trouble clicking on the rotten food and throw it into lava. Later, for fun, I've beaten a guard to death with a couple of chairs. So, as you see, trowing works. I also checked the Party Menu (TAB), a useful feature to select all the characters but to select them individually, I'd rather use F1-F2. You can move the camera freely or if you senter it on your hero, it will follow you. Usually it's tricky business so it's better just to double click on the portrait or click twice the corresponding F# key.
The pathfinding was not perfect. Once my characters kept running arround a ranger as he shot them with his crossbow and nothing could make them attack the enemy, so I decided to use the chairs. Once my main character stood at the same place as the enemy (the circle under them was purple [blue+red]) and some other time, my DK stuck after the whirwill attack. I am certain, though, that Larian would fix that. I tried to make my characters run across the map. They sucessfully overran obstacles and entered rooms without hitting the walls (which happened often in BG: some characters like Jaheira were strangely attracted to walls and fences).
The dialogues were sometimes funny, often enterteining and well written. The characters were believable and some were interesting.
The DK kept commenting my actions. In general, the voice acting is perfectly alright, except for a guard and one imp (his voice was feeble and borred, in addition, he never said "flix" or "flax", which made me think he wasn't a real imp and gave me a reason to slay him <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />). Some guards had irony in their voice and the "helpful" DK never missed an opportunity to critisize everyone arround.

In whole, the demo is very entertaining, albeit short. The models exceeded expectations (especially the imps: I loved the "kitchen cleaning imp", as she jumped arround my character and the DK) and the dialogues are good enough for me. The puzzles and quests are trully great, I won't spoil it for you, but scouting and searching really helps <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />.
The skill system was very strange to me, I guess I'll get used to it but I never seen anything like that.

[color:"white"] Demo score: 4/5 [/color]

[color:"red"] Pros: [/color]
Another great game by Larian with excellent quests and innovative ideas.
Good graphics and puzzles.

[color:"red"] Cons: [/color]
Mysterious pathfinding.
Some voices are wierd (the prisoner who gives you the Traps book has a robot voice).
Short (not really a con since it's a demo)