Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

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I have played Baldur's Gate 2 before this and thus it was not a big deal to start gaming with this one. A quite same kind of RPG focusing more on tactical combat and having less dialogues, characters, items, exploration, changed spells (I didn't like) and story. The story itself is really not so interesting compared to BG2 but I guess it's suitable for this sort of a straightforward dungeon crawler. The game itself works flawlessly having no bugs or crashes. The game is set mostly to different dungeons which might sound tendious at first. At least the dungeon design is varied having visually pleasing style and atmosphere but some of them have too complex layout. This complexity is too much fot the pathfinding system: too much walking around and characters may get stuck each other – especially when trying to move to a new area. There's one big flaw: when you make changes in Options menu and relaunch the game, all the settings you have made are gone. Thus you need to do your settings EVERY time you launch the game. Still I have spend hours with this game having few playthrough with different 4-man party setups.

The pathfinding is horrible, the lack of places to go is ridiculous, and it is so repetitive and so are the cheap deaths.

Now I remember why I don't much care for playing old school tsr games. 1st level characters are way too squishy and easily taken out. The hassle of raising anyone means you save scumm a lot. The combat is almost relentless and gets boring after a while. The game is stable and runs well. Thats about all I can say about it. The rest of the game just on my nerves. Its no planescape torment, and that is a much better game.

1 star until original not enchanced version is also provided.