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Summary: Back with a blast from the past D&D rules.
Review: This game was an excellent D&D style old fashion hack and slash. you form your complete party and travle from point a to point b and basic hack and slash all monsters get xp and gold find magic items and ultimately save the world. Just like D&D rpg except no real need to roleplay unless you need to complete the mission. Excellent game when you are in the mood for just some good old fashion hack and slash. Three thumbs up?? Enjoy this try Icewind Dale Heart of Winter.
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Summary: A Must Have
Review: This game is an absolute must have for all Forgotten Realms, RPG, Fantasy, and SciFi fans. It has a very scketchy storyline that is covered up by amazing gameplay, awesome inventory selections, and in depth towns and dungeons. Whether scouraging through Dragon's Eye for the Heartstone Gem, or wandering aimlessly searching for the 6th Crest in Lower Dorn's Deep, this game is an awesome and exciting must have for all gamers out there. Including an awesome ending with a cool cinematic.
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Summary: Who Wrote These Reviews? Icewind Dale Employees?
Review: I can't believe I bought Icewind Dale based on the reviews I read here at Amazon! What an idiot I was! The people that said it is a great game must be easily amused. I found it very very disappointing. The game is a complete farse. The price is absurdly outrageous considering what you get. For those who have yet to make a purchase, do yourself a favor and buy something else.
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Summary: I hate this game!
Review: I really think this game bites! I wasted my money!
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Summary: Icewind Dale - How Does It Suck? Let Me Count The Ways...
Review: Looking for an RPG game that rivals Diablo II and Baldur's Gate II? It sure as hell isn't Icewind Dale! I spent [$] for probably the worst game I have ever purchased for my computer. Where do I begin to disparage? How does it suck? Let me count the ways. Firstly, it has more bugs than a mattress in a Tiajuana roadside inn. (By the way, I tested it on 7 different computers) Unless you enjoy the excitement of the game crashing or your computer freezing, you shall be in for lot's of hair pulling. (Unless you have already bought the game; in which case you are probably already bald) Do you like saving and loading a hundred times an hour? Great! The characters get stuck more often than snot-nosed boy's booger finger. Half the magic spells aren't worth a plug nickel. Summoned monsters, if you can get them to work, are about as useful as illusions. The characters in it have as much character as, oh, say; the stick people I used to draw in my notebook back in first grade. The story line, if indeed there is a story line, had to be authored by kindergarten children or perhaps [...] people. If you are like most sane individuals, you probably would like a choice once in a while in your game...like...say...going left instead of right. Isn't that sort of the purpose for a role playing game - to have different choices to make? Well, the wise makers of Icewind Dale have made all of your choices for you. You might as well let them play the game for you, too. It would be more interesting that way, then you would have more time to play some other game that is actually fun. Well, take my opinion for what it is worth. If you are a slow learner, or just have lots of money to discard on bad software, then by all means go get Icewind Dale today! If you are now hesitant because of my soulful pleading not to be a damn fool, and you just can't decide, flip a coin - heads you use your 40 bucks to paper the parakeet's cage, tails, you run out and buy Icewind Dale with a big stupid grin on your face, and then you play it for a few days until, in the course of your game, you happen to [tick] off the wrong person by answering their dialogue the wrong way, and they turn red, and the fight is on...and then...guess what?...you can't finish the game! Oh, how fun it shall be! You get to start all over again! And maybe you'll still have that big stupid grin. It is obvious that Icewind Dale was hastily thrown together in a disgraceful attempt to profit from the popularity of Baldur's Gate. Now that my copy has been thrown into the trash, I wish nothing else but to save my fellow human beings from a fate worse than the raging fires of hell. At least one positive thing has come from this otherwise extremely-perturbing experience; I now better understand the maxim, "A fool and his money are soon parted". Rot in oblivion, ICEWIND DALE! I hope my [$] will be used to purchase cyanide tablets for the [....] knuckleheads that had the audacity to release this piece of donkey [...] on the unsuspecting world.
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Summary: THIS GAME RULES
Review: I actually purchased Icewind Dale after I bought BG2 and in my opinion BG2 was not that much better. Icewind Dale definetly has the best sound out of any game ever made. The graphics are a little sketchy, but still beautiful to watch and admire. The gameplay is a lot more linear than BG2, but I actually like the linear parts of BG2 more than the wide open areas, so that was definetly one of the aspects I loved about this game that some people hated. Because this game is based on the 2nd addition AD&D rules the gameplay is fast and gracefully complex. Im sorry if I compared Icewind Dale to BG2 to much in this review, but there is just so many similarities between the two. Overall Icewind Dale is an amazing game that supplies many hours of fast and furious RPG action.
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Summary: Best D&D RPG yet
Review: I must say I was very skeptical in buying this game, but to tell you the truth it was maybe the best decision's Ive made in along time since Diablo 2. Wonderful stroyline, and awesome gameplay, best music I have heard in a game since Chrono Cross, and Diablo 2.....A must buy for RPG fans!!!!!!!
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Summary: Icewind Dale review
Review: Icewind Dale is a hack and slash game, disappointing role-players expecting a story line like Baulder's Gate's. The plot goes as such; there is a big scary evil somewhere and you just have to pick up the biggest weapon and go at it. Stunning visuals but with no plot, like a hollow birthday cake. I think that for ... more bucks, you'd be better off getting Baulder's Gate II.
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Summary: OK, but not great
Review: Standing alone, Icewind Dale is an enjoyable game. But, when compared to BG2:SoA, there is no comparison; BG2 is far and away the best of the two. Since I'm using Icewind Dale to kill time while I await the expansion for BG2, It's been sort of a disappointment. While creating your party is somewhat fun, especially choosing portraits, names, etc. I really miss the quirky NPCs I've found in the Baldur's Gate games. The artwork in Icewind Dale is absolutely beautiful, and I've also noticed everyone raving about the music. Actually, the music isn't that noticeable. Also, I don't like how your characters start out at first level. They die too easily! I have probably poured thousands of gold into resurrection spells. The plot is fairly interesting, but no where near as involved as BG, BG2, or Planescape:Torment. Don't let me put you off. Icewind Dale is a good game: Entertaining, fun, and with some really nice items.
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Summary: Icewind Dale is not that good at all
Review: I cannot belive the number of people who love this game. When comparing this game to the likes of BG, BGII and Planescape: Torment it is ridiculous that this game be rated anywhere near as good. The graphics are only slightly better than BG, but they are vastyly inferior to BGII and Torment. The sound is good I'll give it that, but then the sound is just as good in the three other games I mentioned. This game is also way too easy. I beat it in less than two weeks and I don't play more than 1-2 hours a day. I also do not recall ever dying in the game either. Another thing is that it gets a boring after a little while. All of the battle is inside areas that in many cases is unremarkable, but their are some nice ones. The gameplay is also poor becuase one quickly gathers a lot of gold and gems in any of the many dungeons (which are practically the only areas in the game) but without gem bags or bags of holding you end up dumping VERY good magical items and gems because some of the items are just so ridiculously powerful. At one point I almost dumped my +4 weapons in favor of the +3s and +2s because the game was too easy. Also in dungeons one might expect traps, and some nasty ones might I add, these are nonexistent in Icewind Dale. A party could quite easily get along without a thief at all. This game was no where near as good as it could or should be. If you are interested in buying this game, don't waste your money. Instead buy BG, BGII or Planescape: Torment or save it until Pool of Radiance 2 or Neverwinter Nights come out. All of these games are VASTLY superior and also are a lot of fun the second or third time around unlike Icewind Dale that is not great the first time.
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