In Icewind Dale's original campaign, you discover that the nearby town of Kuldahar is being plagued by bad weather, monster sightings, and missing people, and you're tasked with finding out what's going on - and putting a stop to it.

You start out as an anonymous adventuring band in the small town of Easthaven, but soon enough you're recruited to do all sorts of things. Icewind Dale takes place in a less-than-balmy portion of FaerÃ»n along the Spine of the World Mountains. In fact, if you own the original Icewind Dale and don't mind installing mods, then there's little in the EE that you can't get for free elsewhere, which begs the question: is there any reason to bother with the EE at all? I'd say yes, but you'll have to keep reading to see if your answer is the same.įinally, while the Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition is now available for PC, Lynux, and Mac platforms, and will eventually be available on handheld devices, this review (like all of my reviews) is for the PC version. That is, unlike the Baldur's Gate enhanced editions, which contained a fair amount of brand new content, the Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition ( EE) is mostly just an update of an old game, like a lot of the 'HD' titles that have been released in the past few years. The engine has been retooled to work better with modern computers (as well as handheld devices), the interface has been improved to make the game friendlier to play, all of the new spells and character classes added to the Baldur's Gate enhanced editions have been incorporated here as well, lots of new equipment has been sprinkled throughout the game, multiplayer functionality has been added, and some content removed by Black Isle Studios prior to the game's original release has been restored. The Enhanced Edition includes Icewind Dale and its two add-ons, Heart of Winter and Trials of the Luremaster, plus a slew of improvements.

Now Icewind Dale is the latest game from Beamdog to become enhanced. It also helped that the action RPG genre hadn't really gotten into full swing yet ( Diablo II was released at the same time, but its numerous clones didn't come until later), and so Icewind Dale filled a niche that wasn't otherwise being served. However, unlike Baldur's Gate (1998) and Planescape: Torment (1999), which either focused on story or maintained a good mix between story and combat, Icewind Dale was all about combat, and it turned into a nice vehicle for gamers who were more interested in creating the most powerful party possible rather than learning all about of the motivations of the game's end boss. It is a part of the 'holy trinity' of role-playing games that use BioWare's Infinity Engine. Icewind Dale was released by Black Isle Studios in June of 2000.

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