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A great collection for any RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 122 / 125
Date: August 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've decided to buy this collection after a reading a lot of reviews from different websites. But none of them are very clear about the contents of the package, so here is the contents of the package

1.Icewind Dale (2 CD's)
2.Icewind Dale Expansion Heart of Winter (1CD)
3.Icewind Dale II (2 CD's)
4.Icewind Dale soundtrack
5.Icewind Dale II bonus disk
6.Icewind dale strategy guides, trailer of IWD II

This package is well worth the purchase, u get a series of one of the best selling game, developed by pioneers who have also developed games like Fallout series, BG1 abd BG2.

The graphics are great, they look bright and crisp. The soundtrack is great and suits well with the ambience, u really feel the snow falling and the cold weather.

The gameplay is fun, it is more like a hack n slash game, i'm a greatest fan of diablo series, so i love this game as well. To put it in a nut shell, this game is Hack n slash with D&D rules. If u like diablo u will certainly like this. Baldurs gate fans will slightly get disappointed with the game play. Charecter creation is great, this game allows dual class charecters, so it adds more fun to gameplay. My only complaint is, there is no interation within r party members, but this doesn't affect the gameplay experience.

Overall if u ever have a thought of getting this game and don't know whether its worth the money, the answer is plainly, a best value for r money!

This game is awesome in gameplay.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 37 / 38
Date: November 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
1. Character creation is fun, detailed and basically unmatched by any game on the market, much better than the NWN creation system.
2. Graphic is beautiful, but if you are expecting fully 3D environment, you will be disappointed.
3. Music is just awesome.
4. Did I mention Character Creation is FUN! Playing your custom made party is a very satisfying experience. Any kind of team is playable, You can solo the game too if you like.

Cons:
1. Does not feature 3D environment like NWN
2. Gameplay is linear, but I didn't care as the point of my game is to develope my character.

By comparison..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 38 / 40
Date: September 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have played all the rpgs, Baldur's Gate, NWN, Dungeon Siege, Final Fantasy, TOEE, etc.

And I have to say, that stumbling upon Icewind Dale 2 was a real treat..

Sure the graphics are dated, but WOW..the storyline, the dialogue, the descriptions of the rooms and actions are all incredibly well written (A breath of fresh air, after playing DS). The quests don't get in the way of the game, like so many others that get bogged down in annoying side-quests as a lame attempt to flesh out the world. I would have prefered the game to be turn based like TOEE, but this game's battles are numerous and really fun; partially to good monster design..compare bugbears in this game to NWN..so much better, and partially to the unforgettable situations and dungeons.

When pitted against other D&D ruleset games, the spell choices offered and levels they are given at is superior to all others. I actually enjoyed having a Druid in my party, who could transform his arms into pythons, and for the first time in CRPG history actually used summon animals spells. Even if many spells were simular to other games, these felt more tailored to the characters and made useful, instead of waiting till higher levels to get one useful spell.

My favorite part is that I could handpick my team, where as in Baldur's Gate I was forced to play with characters I didn't like, or NWN where it was removed and tedious to interact with henchmen.
I enjoyed RPing the characters backgrounds, and interactions in my head, and really enjoyed finding the treasure, unique to IWD2, like a wide variety of cut gems. (which became an addiction)

If you updated this game graphically to the level of TOEE, and made it Turn Based with battle tactics, It would be my all time favorite RPG.

Solid Game for RPGers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: August 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played D and D since college, and Icewind Dale is the closest experience to a D&D game I have had in 20 years. The characters are developable and fun, the game is challlenging and forgiving, and this package contains the strategy guides. If you are like me, and have a life outside of gaming--GET THE STRATEGY GUIDE! It makes the game SO much more playable. I have just started the HOW module, and it is good.

ENOY!

Ultimate vs Regular Details

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was inspired to write this after a review for the Icewind Dale Collection (thank you!). When I pre-ordered it, there was no information regarding the contents of THIS package on the Amazon site, only the Regular complete collection, so I looked around for these missing details.
According to the Interplay Store, this package, differing from the Icewind Dale Collection, includes:

"Icewind Dale ™,
Icewind Dale ™: Heart of Winter,
Icewind Dale ™II,
The soundtrack for Icewind Dale,
Bonus CDs, including Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter strategy guides, an additional level, and a set of 4 character portraits from Icewind Dale II."

The game play is much the same as that of the Baldur's Gate Series, with minor helpful additions, like being able to right-click on any quick slot to get a spell/item shortcut, and then right-clicking on the quick button you want, and then right-clicking once again on the item you wish to place there. One drawback is that this selects the item or activates the spell. A handy way to deactivate this is to right click just ONE more time!
The character portraits are simply gorgeous, and the paper-doll views more traditional (I did not enjoy the cartoony ones in BG2). I love that the player can put 4 sets of weapons into the weapons slots, and can have a bow equipped in one set and have a sword and shield in the next set. Not realistic, but if we imagine that items are strapped to the sides of the characters, it's more believable.
Very fun to play. Good story line so far.

Uh, Icewind Dale TWO works in XP, not 1

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 51 / 95
Date: July 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Although MS's game catalogue lists Icewind Dale and Heart of Winter as "compatilbe with XP" it does not nessecarily mean it Officially works and may run not on your system. This game, as with BG2 Collection(see my review) does NOT need to be re-released UNLESS you patch it for XP officially. Also no one has a SB Live! anymore and the only way you can play this right(with environment effects) is with that card. Audigy does not work! I give it an extra two stars becasue Icewind Dale II DOES work well with XP, although you will experience a few instablilities and a significant drop in framerate.

Excellent Package

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great game, very enjoyable with many features. Character creation is awesome, with good implementation of D&D guidelines. Lots of fun to play, very lengthy. The replay value is raised by the amazing variety of choices during character creation. I had no technical issues with the game running Windows XP with a 2.4 ghz, 256mb ram, and 64mb video card.

Boring and Tedious

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 29 / 66
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sure, the graphics and sound ARE nice, but this game is very linear and very forgiving- too forgiving. You can save and reload just about constantly, so long as there aren't monsters nearby and things are made kinda dummy-proof so you can't make any significant mistakes. As a result, I never really felt like I was taking much of a chance doing anything. The dialogue is mostly a matter of clicking responses until you can't click anymore and there's not much bad consequence to clicking them in any ol' order. There's really only one path through the different areas of the game and nothing ever respawns. You can also adjust the difficulty levels from very easy to very difficult but the experience and treasure don't adjust accordingly. This means if a fight is too tough after a couple reloads you can make it very easy and still get the same rewards you would have gotten when it was hard. Maybe I'm just a little jaded from playing online games like Everquest for so long. In online, realtime games with other humans playing around you there is much more of an unpredictable, and more importantly uncontrolable, and much more exciting environment to play in. I got so bored with this that I actually stopped playing while close to completing the very last area of the game. I just didn't care anymore. This game requires very little thinking or strategizing.

Yep.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's the Ultimate Collection, alright. I'm not sure how a collection of Icewind Dale computer games could get any ultimater. It's got both the actual games as well as a bonus CD-ROM. Anything else and it would cease to be an Icewind Dale Ultimate Collection and become, for example, an Icewind Dale Ultimate Collection with a side order of french fries. Fries, for what it's worth, tend to go "bad" when placed on a computer store shelf for weeks at a time, so that's probably a good decision.

You can create all kinds of characters to be in your party. I created the Charlie's Angels and teamed them up with Jack, Janet, and Chrissy from "Three's Company" because I have always wanted to see how well they could fight crime in the form of goblins and were-beasts. As it turns out, pretty well, although casting Jack Tripper as a paladin was stretching things a bit (maybe Mister Ferley LOLOLOL!). The second one has various and sundry "quirks" you can give your characters that will remind you of Knights of the Old Republic if you forget that the Black Isle people actually ripped the idea off from Interplay's Fallout I and II. Anyway, it's still a cool idea.

The one thing I don't like about RPGs like this one is that they give you all these skills to choose from and yet they're all combat-related. If I wanted to create a swashbuckling pack of accountants it would be impossible to do so because the game does not recognize accounting or even accounts payable as an actual skill. I don't know about you but to me that's a serious mark. I still gave the game 5 stars because it's so old that accounting was not I don't think around in the late 1990s.

Really hits the spot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Besides Baldur's Gate II, Icewide Dale is the second most fun CRPG game out there. More action than role playing, which is fine with me.

This is a single-player multi-character game, and you get to create the entire party of 6 adventures. The plot is fairly weak, but the action is plentiful and I love the fact that you get to develop 6 different characters. If you have to get just one of the Icewind Dale games, get Icewind Dale II. The character generation and development is much better (not to mention the gameplay and graphics).

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