As many have said, the game is a decent successor to the original Icewind Dale. Yes, the game has an excellent character creation system and the spells are superb. However, the game at certain points grows very tedious- for example the Fell Wood or the lower part of Dragon's Eye were just not enjoyable. Toward the end of the game, I just felt like it was pointless to continue on playing the game as the experience from monsters is scaled to your level, and you are just killing them to get them out of the way. For example, if you are level 10 and you kill say an orc or a goblin, you get no experience. Whereas, if you are level one, you get the full experience. Also, the atmosphere of the game was good but the original felt "colder" and had more of an epic feel to it. Also, I felt like the "great" items in the game were kind of tacked on just to make your party competitive with the enemies. In all, this is a very good game but I would say its probably the worst of the Infiniti Engine games. I tried playing it a few times but just couldn't bring myself to finish it-- I just stopped caring.
