Icewind Dale

Icewind Dale arrived in 2000 as a frosty sibling to the Baldur's Gate formula, trading political intrigue for glorious dungeon crawling in the forgotten corners of the Forgotten Realms. Here, the emphasis is on tactical combat, party creation, and surviving blizzards with your eyebrows intact. The Infinity Engine shines as beautifully painted landscapes frame battles against orcs, undead, and creatures who clearly skipped anger management. Its story may be leaner than some RPG epics, but the atmosphere is unmatched: cold, majestic, and slightly murderous. This is the sort of game where you spend twenty minutes organizing spells before a fight and still get ambushed by goblins.

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Icewind Dale review

"I'm so in love with this game. If you liked Baldur's Gate or Planescape: Torment, you'll love this game. If you're a fan of RPGs or strategy, or better, both, pick this title up, as well as the previous two I mentioned. I'm of the mindset that anything Black Isle makes is gold." - GameSpy (2001)

"I, being a veteran of both Baldur's Gate titles, am relatively pleased with this game. After all, Icewind Dale is modeled after Baldur's Gate and uses the same engine(an engine worthy of praise, I would think). Beware, however, for something has changed since Baldur's Gate....the story. This game is much more like Diablo in that you will spend the majority of your time parading through dungeons and vanquishing monsters of a wide variety. For this, there must be a sacrifice. Icewind Dale is not centered around story(oh, the horror!). No, I think you bards out there who enjoy a good novel of a game are going to go a bit hungry when wading through the tides of undead minions this game presents you with. I like the story....but not as much as the story in Shadows of Amn(Baldur's Gate 2). Then again, no game should revolve around story alone. And this one certainly doesn't, as I will soon describe." - PC Game Reviews (2001)

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An expansion, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter, was released in 2001, and a sequel, Icewind Dale II, followed in 2002.

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