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I loved it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Old school ad&d with a deeper story than Iwd. I just finished the Icewind Dale trilogy book and had to pick this up. It is good and if you loved Baldur's Gate 2 this is up your alley !

Check it out!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is definitely worth getting (especially now since the price is low), the game is very immersive. Interesting NPCs, stunning graphics, rich character system. Tons of abilities for your characters to learn. Some interesting and complex labrynths. What keeps it from getting the full 5 stars is certain sections of the plot and quest can get somewhat tedious and slow. Other than that, this game is a good balance of battle strategy, monster bashing, and story line.

Icewind Dale II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A pretty good rpg game Not as good as Baldurs Gate 2 But still a good game Considering it's age and that it can be purchased rather cheaply It is well worth 10 bucks :)

Loads of Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am having a great time playing this game. I play it almost all day. I like the fact you get to choose your own people to play. I get to arrange the different people to my best estimate of a challenging game.

Could be a lot funner.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Playing Icewind Dale II reminds me of all of those novels written by American authors in the late 19th century. Though many of the novels were very well written, they never seemed to suck me in and continue reading the book. Icewind Dale II is like that. It looks nice, it supposedly improves gameplay, and it gives the player more character creation options, but I just don't really want to play it. Why? Well, at the end of the day, it seems as if Icewind Dale II is hurt by a extremely corny story; it is bogged down in numerous irrelevent puzzles involving you running around constantly; it is just not as fun as its predescessor.

I bought this game for one reason and that reason was that I was addicted to Baldur's Gate II and needed to expand my party based rpg addiction to another realm. Icewind Dale II seemed to be the logical option. I was wrong. I was immediately confronted with a story so corny that it is almost embarassing to take part in. I was confronted with gameplay that caused me to run back and forth from one place to another constantly. I was confronted with battles so easy that I was soon bored.

I tried to play it again, but again I was plagued with the same problems. I installed a bunch of unofficial patches, but those did not solve the problems with the terrible puzzles and whatever else.

The overload of puzzles and corniness would be ok if you could diverge from the one path as you could in Baldur's Gate II, where you could accomplish quests at the order that you wanted to. Here you had to accomplish everything in a linear order and could never diverge from the path. Furthermore, the story seemed to be a retread of the story from the original Icewind Dale. In fact, the design of the game seemed to paralell it completely.

The final problem with this game concerns the fact that it is difficult to play if you have no knowledge of dungeons and dragons rules. If you do not know how to use rogues or are unfamiliar with feats and the like, this game will pose a very high learning curve that you may not want to climb. I was mostly familiar with the rules, but it was easy to see that someone who did not know them as well could easily make mistakes or be unfamiliar with the use of certain classes (even though the rule book was pretty exhaustive).

All in all, I do not think that this is a good game. I would just go with Baldur's Gate II or Icewind Dale I instead of this game.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just thought I'd share my my opinion.
I think ID2 is a great game with a very deep lore, great graphics, replayability and more. If your into RPG games this is right up your alley.

Lots of fun, not a bad story either.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who's a fan of the Black Isle games based on the infinity engine should enjoy this game. They changed up the character creation a little, so you seemingly have more control over your character's strengths and weaknesses. While IWDII doesn't have the depth of Torment or the NPC interaction of the Baldur's Gate series, it still has a good story and a nice interface. Graphically it's subpar to the NWN series, but I think that might actually be a benefit, as I found the 3D aspect of NWN to be a hinderence at times. Some tips for those interested:

1. Make a party of 4 characters. They will level up faster and have less hang ups with the AI. With 6 members, I found I needed to start over and import them into a new game after the prologue because they were under powered, and 2 of them always end up wandering off on me. Those problems are abated with only 4 characters.
2. Multiclassing is key. Having thief abilities is nice, but you don't really need more than 3 or 4 levels as rogue. Sink all the points into picking locks, and traps. Multiclass into a ranger or mage. You won't have to worry about armor hindering thief skills. Adding a few levels of fighter to cleric or barbarian helps learn more weapon skills, and in the case of a cleric, a boost to HP. These are just a few ideas...
3. For the warriors, focus on only a couple differnt weapons. Make sure you have at least one of them blunt weapons, as some foes aren't as vulnerable to the bladed variety. Also, have at least 2 members competent with ranged weapons.

icewind dale 2 review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

very good game a classic dungeon crawl that captures essence of dnd game on computer

A mixed bag

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the last computer roleplaying game I'll play and it's a bittersweet ending for me. I'm simply tired of the huge amount of TIME it takes to play the average RPG game these days. The hours and hours and HOURS of time it takes to slowly develop your characters, gather magic items, battle from location to location and so on.

This game does have some stuff going for it. An elegant, customizable interface. Good graphics, even on relatively low-performance computers. The spell effects are especially fun to watch and the "battle sounds" are nice: Satisfying metallic slicing and clanking sounds, the sickening crunch of skulls being crushed, etc.

But what other reviewers have said about this game's TEDIOUS "puzzle dungeons" is exactly on the money: I had to refer to gamefaqs so many times I started to wonder if I shouldn't just quit. I would likely be an old, old man if I had to rely on my own feeble wits to solve some of these puzzles. There are NO clues, or the clues are incredibly roundabout. And more to the point, the puzzles seem like filler; something added to make the game longer or more "challenging".

Frankly, my message to the people at Black Isle is that they need to understand the distinction between "This game sure is difficult" and "This game sure is fun."

Standard Fare

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like these games, you'll love this one...if you don't, you won't.

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