Icewind Dale 2 Complete

This game, way back in 2003 absolutely ruined my studies as a teenager! I remember playing it every which way; good party, evil party, neutral party, all paladins (multiclassed), all wizards, normal play, with cheat codes, with cheat codes and edited characters so they all had 30 in each stat... Goddamn the effects were spectacular, the story was genuinely interesting and cutscenes actually got you involved in the story. The spells, character customisation and story were the first things that really got me into D'n'D. Brilliant game and at less than £3 it's a bargain that deserves to be in everyone's collection.

Is a dungeon crawler at its best, with a fairly pronounced difficulty curve in his first hours of play, you have to create your group of heroes, each with a specific role, and see how they pass each obstacle that the game is implementing (Bosses, great hordes of enemies, puzzles, etc). If you like this class of classic Crpg's, this is definitely your game, this was the last of its kind, full of difficulty, an interesting story and many hours of play.

I haven't played the GOG version, but i played this ALOT with my best friend back in the days. It's not as story driven as BG or PS:T, but it has fun combat and is very hard to get through if you only choose to play with two characters (You and your friend), but is possible if you make good strategic descision. Someone gave it 1 star because he hates Beamdog. Beamdog wasn't involved in this version though and i will bump my 4 stars up to 5. It lacks some story elements for singleplayer IMO, but try it out if you want to play with a friend. I don't know if it's possible to play online anymore, but otherwise use Hamachi to emulate local Coop.

...but the weakest out of the old Infinity Engine bunch. Some tedious chapters and a different edition (3rd) from all the others but nevertheless quite worthwile to play. I can vividly remember how thrilled I was during my very first playthrough many years ago but consecutive playthroughs were not as thrilling compared to the rest (first instalment, Baldur's, Torment). Five star system does not give enough room to make that distinction though, ergo 5 stars.

I have fond memories of this game as a great and moody Infinity Engine game. But...no, it is a painful and annoying game using many ugly tricks to make it harder and hardcore dungeon crawling. It starts out strong I think, very mood in Targos but the longer you play, the more it start to collapse and show its uglier and less polished side. Lot of irritating puzzles, irritating traps, really wicked spawns out of nowhere. Pathfinding being hellish. With my nostalgia glasses off, oh hell. This game does not hold up to my teenage memories and it is a pain to get running. I had to fiddle with the ini files, deleting a string! I do not even remember which. The only game I say would do super well with an enhanced edition. Which it of course just got! As im almost done some modders released an enhanced edition. Just my damn luck. But it is the last Infinity Engine came if I do not count the Luremaster downloadable expansion for IWD I, that I need to finish to have finished them all. If you'rea really starving for infinity engine games! This is more of the same in DnD 3,5 with some pretty nasty and annoying choices by the devs. But Infinity Engine in 3,5 is a bit interesting. But not at all how I remember it in most places. Losing its charm after the Targos chapters.