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- Platform: Windows 2000 / XP / Me / NT / 98
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Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter is the first expansion pack for the role-playing game Icewind Dale. Like all expansion packs, it requires the original title to be installed in order to play. Heart of Winter shares the same time frame with Icewind Dale--the year 1281, the Year of the Cold Soul--and its five new major areas are located just North of the original game's locale. Players can take their 9th level or above Icewind Dale characters to Heart of Winter via a small house in the great tree town of Kuldahar. Alternately, players who have beaten Icewind Dale can import living or deceased characters to Heart of Winter, as long at least one character survived, and with the same 9th level or above restriction. Or players can simply generate a new party.
Both Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale use AD&D Second Edition rules, however some of the special powers and abilities in the Third Edition are available in the expansion. For example, thieves have access to Sneak Attack and Crippling Strike abilities, and the new spell progression tables for rangers and paladins have been taken from the Third Edition rules. In addition to new areas, powers and abilities, Heart of Winter features: new portraits, new player character sound sets, new monsters, 50 new spells, 800x600 resolution, drop-away interface, gem bags, potion bags, scroll cases, hot key that highlights normal doors and ground items, and the ability to buy multiple items from stores. The biggest change is the ability for all character classes to reach 30th Level, and Druids can advance higher still.
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7 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By "samurai_yc"
Icewind Dale & Heart of Winter is a nice game, also this game is 2 in 1 (the original and the add-on come together) It's a great value for a nice like this.
You can control several person in the same time, different person has different ability... also there is many person for you to choose, good? The game is interesting and many subquests will keep you busy, also they bring you into the game further, create the personality is the key of the game, you could play a good person or a devil, choice is yours. That also made replay interesting...
It's nice, but the system is a bit too similiar to the classic game Baldur's Gate(which produced by the same company). I have to say they are twins... From the drawing style, game style and some sub-storyline are very similiar.
A huge advantage of this game is video-memory requirement is very low(2MB maybe...Of course if you have good video-memory the game would be much nicer)The magic are great and very nice in this game, personal I think it's better than BG.
If you haven't played any Baldur's Gate game before, this is an excellent buy. If you played BG before, ok this is not bad replay either.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Guiver
Inevertably this game will be compared to Baldors gate...thats just the way it is, and if youve not played BG then buy it now, it has a more to offer.
there are some striking differences between the two, though. I was disoppointed to find the narritive in Icewind dale & Heart of winter just a little too linier for me, it lacked a sense of freedom and control over your actions and decisions. However, what it makes up in is much greater contorl of characters - the entire party is created by you - These alterations give more of a stratigic slant to the game, as opposed to RPG (which, is still the primary genre). My only problem was that because I could make any party I wanted it all seemed a little too easy... but if you like to powerplay this is one for you.
there are some striking differences between the two, though. I was disoppointed to find the narritive in Icewind dale & Heart of winter just a little too linier for me, it lacked a sense of freedom and control over your actions and decisions. However, what it makes up in is much greater contorl of characters - the entire party is created by you - These alterations give more of a stratigic slant to the game, as opposed to RPG (which, is still the primary genre). My only problem was that because I could make any party I wanted it all seemed a little too easy... but if you like to powerplay this is one for you.
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