For Baldur's Gate's fans and RPG enthusiasts if you don't mind the dated game engine and graphics.

User Rating: 7.7 | Icewind Dale (DVD) PC
By KingLim | Review Date:
Icewind Dale's the first game I played that features AD&D rules and its world of the Forgotten Realms. Being both an RPG and strategy fan, I quite liked the experience this Black Isle game had offered. I spent more than a full hour configuring the classes and specs of my 6 characters and carefully striking a balance between melee fighters and magic users. That's one of the great things I liked about AD&D games, that you get to customise your characters with a true sense of depth.

This is a more straightforward game that Black Isle Studios had made as it consists of a lot of fights throughout the whole campaign without much side quests that doesn't involve fighting. In fact, it doesn't really have those kind of quests that tell you to deliver something to another person of another town or solving puzzles. Almost every quest you get require you to fight. If you really love the hack'n'slash side of an RPG game like Diablo2, then you may want to try Icewind Dale.

However, combat in Icewind Dale requires strategic planning as well since it involves your 6 party members simultaneously and you will want to keep everyone alive by the end of the hectic fighting by commanding your wizards to cast fireballs from behind while your fighters hack their way in front and your clerics cast mass heal at the side and your thief sneak and backstab behind enemy lines. Wow! Don't worry, it has a pause function that enables you to make these commands while the game is ehm...paused and they will execute the moves when you unpaused it. This is something fresh to me that time and I really enjoyed the whole deal.

Inventory system is strange but never mind... Ah...the soundtrack is impressive with a full orchestraic composition that brings out the grandness of the adventure itself. Good classic RPG game, though it looks way too outdated to play by now.

KingLim

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