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Also comes with expansion - Heart of Winter - the soundtrack CD, and an extra CD with 'Bonus Features'!

'It's well suited for fans of Black Isle Studios' previous games, classic hack-and-slash AD&D computer games, and anyone looking for an action-packed role-playing game with a lot of depth. 8.6/10!' - Gamespot

Icewind Dale, set in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragon's Forgotten Realms, is a party-based dungeon crawl in the popular Icewind Dale region created by famous author R. A. Salvatore. The game uses an enhanced version of BioWare's Infinity engine, which was used to power Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment. Icewind Dale offers six major areas with approximately fifty dungeon levels, an excellent story, multiple plot lines, sixteen different classes, improved multiplayer support, seventy monster-types, new interface, and around sixty to eighty hours of gameplay.

Players can create six characters from standard AD&D 2nd Edition races and classes as they set off to find an ancient evil buried in the Spine of the World. Combat occurs in real time (no turns), but the action can be paused at any time in order to issue new orders, prepare spells, or respond to a new threat. The combat is kept fast by allowing players to assign an artificial-intelligence combat script to individual characters. Your party can encounter a minor monster, fire arrows as it approaches, attack it with fighters when it gets close, and then get healed by the cleric when the fighting is done - all without your intervention.

Heart of Winter is an expansion pack for Icewind Dale that is expected to add an additional 15-25 hours of gameplay. The expansion removes the experience cap so characters can attain 30th level, and offers sixty new spells and over one hundread new magic items.

Check out the trailer video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxVXwu-v2o

For 1 to 6 players

Developer: Black Isle Studios Genre: RPG Released: 2000

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