Icewind Dale 2 is not as good as its predecessor and pales in comparison to the Baldur's Gate games or Planescape: Torment. It is a long linear slog that revisits several locations from the first game and makes you fight your way through some sections multiple times. The combat is cheap and nasty, like a pen & paper RPG run by a sociopath who is trying to annihilate his friends. The story is not good enough to warrant the time and effort involved in getting through it. On the plus side, it runs flawlessly on Linux using WINE.
