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What an excellent game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 31
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Just when you thought it was safe to put off Baldurs Gate, here comes Icewind Dale. A magnificent combination of BG and the older games in the gold box series. Dungeon hacking and roleplaying at their best.

In Icewind Dale, you form an entire party of your Player Characters, compared other BG engine games in which you were allowed one main player. This makes it more fun, allowing you to watch your adventurers progress one at a time as they grow so much more powerful than they were when the game began.

Another added bonus is the addition of new spells and monsters. The enemy AI is stronger, and the new monsters such as mind flayers will provide enough fun and frustration to make this game a challenge for any level player.

Look out Diablo 2, Icewind Dale is a major contender to knock you off the number one spot! One error for Diable 2 and its gone, because Icewind Dale is perfect.

Icewind Dale

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Having been a fan since the first D&D games hit the market, I can honestly say that they have outdone themselves. Graphics are the best I've seen, as a hack and slash game with the Baldurs gate drive...Make More!

Excellent Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is really an amazing game. Excellent graphics, sound effects, music AND a fun story line. It really brings back memories of the first time you played pen and paper Dungeons& Dragons.

One warning, be careful with this game, it is very hard to tear yourself away from it.

Better than Baldur's Gate but BG is still excellent.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In IWD you can create your entire party, not just the leader. You can create however you want it. One thing I can't stand about most D&D players is thier constant insistance that one play a certain type of party. Not so says I! I play in terms of the most interesting party rather than the one that will be most powerful. Don't let others tell ya how to play. That's the fun of it. My Paladin leads, but in my next game a Ranger will lead(low chr and all) and there will be no Paladin. despite creating my whole party I like to have my alter-ego lead. Rangers and Paladins are my favorite characters. Paladins are better characters in BG but in IWD have no fighting advantages other than specilisation. Rangers get double attacks.(3 at level 7) I have one evil mage in my Paladin party just for some friction heh!(BG is better with friction) Reviewing Icewind Dale is pointless as it is odviously the best game I've ever played,

Wow! Best RPG I've ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is stunning! Yeah its billed as just hack and slash, but the work that went into the game is immediately evident. The artwork is amazing, but the music steals the show right off the bat. As a fan of movie soundtracks I sometimes find myself just sitting and listening to the game play! The character voices are also even better this time around. I've only played into the Vale of Shadows but I'm already hooked, this game is awesome. You're more driven by a storyline, there's less wandering around exploring than in BG. Better than Baldur's Gate for me, had Interplay made their original 6/23 release date I wouldn't have bothered with Diablo 2. After playing each game for a couple hours, I found myself craving IWD and Diablo 2 still sits on the shelf! IWD sets a very high standard for BG2, but I'm sure Interplay is up to the challenge.

Nice. Engine getting stale. Where's the manual?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was surprised by the quality of this game. I played this in December 2002, and it was much better than I though. Sure, the graphics engine is getting a little old, especially compared to games such as Dongeon Siege. However, I was still surprised that a game of this age looked so good.

What isn't great however, is the lack of a manual. In fact, I wondered whether the contents of my box were incomplete, but apparently that is not the case. This severely limits the game. This simply isn't acceptible. If there was a manual, I would have rated this game at least one star higher than I did.

That would make 4 stars, so why not 5? Well, there are some issues that keep the game from receiving a top rating (aside from the graphics). I do not like how the inventory is managed. It is very hard to see whether a weapon or armory is better than the one you currently have.

Also, the path finding sometimes isn't great. All the members of your party go one way, while one of them gets lost. He/she will catch up ultimately, but it simply is annoying. Also, sometimes you try to get out the door but can't because the leading member of the party is blocked by other party members. The same happens when you try to talk to people.

Addition: I now found the manual on the CD. This makes things a little better, but I still think it is a farce that a game like this doesn't ship with a printed manual.

Unfortunately, the manual failed to explain some of the questions I had, and some of the oddities I couldn't figure out work just like I thought but are just a bit cumbersome. For instance, it is not a lot of fun to purchase a piece of armory for 5000 gold pieces just to figure out it is actually worse than the one you had before, forcing you to sell it again for 200 gold pieces. But I guess that's just how the old AD&D rules were...

A great attempt, but....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Fails. I've never played baldurs gate. I remember my sister asking to so I asked my dad to play Icewind Dale. He set this up for me and I remember playing to the Vale of Shadows. I stopped about half way through. The most ignorant part about the games is the battles. As you go they get increasingly frequent. I hate haveing to fight a skeleton with 2 hp every other second. As for fighting, the game lacks as it is more of a point and click.

I started playing again from the middle of the Vale, and finally got out of there. I then went to a temple which was alright. After that I realized that I was going to another dungeon type cave. This time, I read a strategy guide to find out that it was about 5 levels of fighting. That's not fun. That is not fun at all. I could respect a short game with few battles, but when I fight battles every other minute just to drag out something... It almost seems meaningless after a while.

Anyways, I stopped playing there and decided to remake my party earlier today. I am enjoying it more, mostly because I know to make really powerful fighters and forget about druids. My druid last game killed about 15 units. My main character killed about 300. This can only tell you that my druid was bad. Fortunately I was able to change him later in the game. Although when I did, I got stuck with a level 1 character who was easily killed off. So yea, don't think because you can change your party means you will be changing later in the game. The feature is useless because by the time you discover just how bad your fighter is, the game will be too hard for you to change.

The game does a great job in voice actors though. The fact that I create my entire party is fine. The graphics could use some work. I get tired and bored of the same old dark environments every other minute. Even the snow seems depressing. Other than that, the game offers repetitive battles and little more. Online play isn't fun at all considering on gamespy there are usually one or 2 games going. Once you do get in the game you will learn that everyone exported characters who fought enemies on easy and had the option "max hp on level up" set.

Here's some advice, go play baldurs gate. My sis, sister is playing it again. She is enjoying it. This game is bland, depressing, and repetitive. Sorry but don't get it unless you wanna blow 5 bucks.

Grrrrrr-eat!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! The battles are so realistic! And the violence...Heh heh heh! I would recommend this game to anyone! It is the greatest role-playing game I've ever played!

Icewind Dale review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Baldur's Gate minus the charm

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of the Baldur's Gate series, I decided to give Icewind Dale (IWD) a try. Unfortunately, Black Isles did not strike gold twice. While Icewind Dale is a carbon copy of their excellent Baldur's Gate games in many ways, it lacks the personality that make the BG series great.

IWD actually has a number of things in its favor. The character creation system is very rich, allowing you to customize your party of six in true D&D fashion. Also, there is a long list of abilities, spells, and equipment that you'll run across, as well as visually appealing environments, solid voice acting, and compelling music. Some of the dungeons can be genuinely creepy, and there's a sense of accomplishment once you clear one out.

Unfortunately, the game is deeply flawed. IWD is a bit too hard, even for a person who has some experience with RPG dungeon-crawling. Even worse, it's an artificial toughness designed to lengthen the game by requiring you to repeatly reload saved games. Your characters will die countless times, and this simply can't be avoided. And since your cleric will not be able to resurrect dead party members until late in the game (Raise Dead scrolls are expensive too), you will not be able to continue the game with dead characters. It's really a shame that the developer did not pace the game better, since it's going to turn off a lot of people from the very beginning.

If you can get beyond the tedium and frustration of having to save the game every 2 minutes (and reload it almost as often), the gaming experience is still rather uninspired. The story is lackluster and cliche. There is none of the banter between party members that made Baldur's Gate so fun. All of this together becomes mind-numbing after a while, since the game profoundly lacks a sense of purpose or narrative power. It's all really unfortunate since some effort obviously went into creating the game.

Ultimately, if you haven't played Baldur's Gate, by all means play it (both BG1 & BG2). If you've already tasted the glory of the Baldur's Gate series, then IWD will probably be a disappointment.

Pros:
+rich D&D character creation
+good voice acting and music
+wide range of spells, items, etc.

Cons:
-unnecessarily tedious and difficult
-lackluster story
-Baldur's Gate clone without the personality

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