Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

This is an improvement to the controls of Baldur's Gate game, but the story line is horrible and the game just is not fun. FAR over the top as an unbalanced game, even at the easiest level you die to the point of complete, utter and ultimate frustration. I won't play this game anymore, and I am SO SORRY I spent the money on it, even if it was only a few bucks on sale :( I have been a serious gamer for 25 years - one should not have to download cheats in order to beat a game.

Cant stand nor will I ever support a company that begs for positive reviews, takes credit for others' work, shoehorns modern political issues into beloved titles, and demeans people with whom they disagree with politically. This is a review of Beamdog as a company, and not the game

Pros: + lots of fighting + nicely drawn environments + create a party of 6 (no NPCs) Cons: --- terrible Command & Conquer style passive combat (real time with pause) -- very little voice acting (prepare to read A LOT) - braindead AI - starts at level 1 with mages being near useless (1 spell per rest, 4 hit points) - pathfinding is horrible - Infinity engine's capabilities are very limited (fighting, reading dialogues) Bottom line: The first two BALDUR'S GATE games have to be the most overrated cRPGs of all time. Not only did they introduce a very crappy combat system where combat is mostly automatic and you just interfere by pressing space bar to pause and issue commands which the characters briefly follow before returning to their suicidal behavior (mages with 4 hps will rush into melee combat). Tactical turn-based combat is the only way to go in this type of game (unless it's a solo character game which can get away with DIABLO-style click-to-hit). The pathfinding is atrocious - you need to bring your party to a point at the end of the map, you'd better "lead" them in baby steps to that point or they'll just get lost (or stuck). Wanna leave the area? Prepare to hear "you must gather your party before venturing forth!" - yes, pixel exact placement of all six characters at the exit, one pixel off is a no-go. Due to the game engine's (Infinity, what a joke!) limitations you'll be doing two things is abundance: fighting and talking to NPCs (reading, lots and lots of reading, because only every other sentence is actually dubbed with mediocre voice acting). Enhanced Edition? Well, Beamdog did add higher resolutions, but using them makes everything look washed out and blurred, so don't expect any miracles here. If you intend to get ICEWIND DALE 2 note that that has NOT been "enhanced" and it recycles a lot of areas of ICEWIND 1.

i dont like wrpg's but im determend to finish this sence i never did as a kid...why cus battles are decided randomly, i cant say how many times i did everything i could to only to have my party die over and over and over cus of not of lack of gear lvl or strad but becuse of a die rol....this is why pc rpgs were never good back in the day...and still arnt. but im kinda a masocist so im keep on strugleing till i rage flip the talbe ( only buy if your determend to have luck decide every battle)

In typical Obsidian fashion, where almost every single one of their products follows the pattern "identical to game X except Y", Icewind Dale is simply Baldur's Gate except more focused on combat. You'd think that's a good thing... well it isn't, because if you're a fan of BG, you liked it for the (stupid) story, (generic) setting and (retarded) characters, as well as (idiotic) humor, not the (braindead) combat. And if you aren't, well, there isn't anything for you here either, except watching ugly sprites trying (and failing) to hit each other.