Good game.....

User Rating: 7 | Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter PC
By Slayer_Sam | Review Date:
For those unfamiliar with Icewind Dale, it is a Dungeons & Dragons RPG along the lines of Baldur's Gate, (though in this game, you create your whole 6 person party rather than pick up NPCs along the way) where you take a party of adventurers through dungeons, wilderness, caves and castles to save the towns of Icewind Dale from an evil which is spreading over the land. Heart of Winter is an expansion set for IWD which is bought (a la Opposing Force for Half-Life) and Trials of the Luremaster is a downloadable expansion for Heart of Winter (HOW is required for you to play this add-on). Trials recommends characters levels 11-18 but I would not recommend the level 11 end as it is not a simple thing to complete this.
I went through TOTL with my crash-n-bash squad (my squad from before I discovered the wonders of ranged weaponry). This took a while, especially since I don't use cheats. There are some battles which will challenge the best adventurers and some neat puzzles which are very different from those normally found in IWD. You volunteer to go to purge this haunted castle for this little halfling gentleman you meet in the inn in HOW. He takes you there (note - stock up on stuff before you go as his shop is not that impressive and the ONLY way out of this add-on is to finish it!) and you get attacked momentarily after arriving. It goes from there. The spirit which haunts this castle (the Luremaster) gives you riddles which you must solve in order to figure out what to do. Normal puzzles in Icewind Dale are find the key, then find the door is goes to. Not so here.

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