Not even as good as IceWind Dale, the original. Just not as good as the Baldur's Gates games. Blindingly bland.

User Rating: 6.2 | Icewind Dale II PC
By heatherceana | Review Date:
The over-all greyness of the characters, set against snow and amongst dark structures, makes this game hard on the eyes. The plot is as linear as the original IceWind Dale, but the story itself seems to lack the depth and direction of the original.

Both of the IceWind Dales lack the quality of their "brother" games - the Baldur's Gate games. You have to make an entire party to venture forth. This means that there is next to no NPC interaction and even the dialogue gave fewer options for real role-play. The NPCs were not all that interesting for me either, with a few notable exceptions.

I felt more like a party of puppets in someone else's play rather then like a party of stalwart adventurers seeking their fortune and, advertently or inadvertently, caught-up in events soon to be of historical import.

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