Icewind Dale - Heart of Winter (PS)

A snowy welcome awaits you in Lonelywood. An isolated community in the far north of the Icewind Dale region - the village scrapes a living and keeps an uneasy watch on the marauding barbarians. Colourful characters and intrigue abound, of course, and the cold and the undead once again play a large part in this mission. The sequel to Icewind Dale - Heart of Winter adds a whole new scenario to the game in which to test your players. You can choose to create new high level characters for the game, or to carry over your victorious party from the original game. Be warned that Heart of Winter is far tougher than the original, with some hefty monsters about: Polar ...  Read the complete review

Icewind Dale Heart of Winter is an expansion pack of Icewind Dale, the rpg made by Black Isle studios using the infinity engine, the same used in the baldur?s gate series and in planescape torment. It uses the rules of dungeons and dragons second edition, a pen and paper rpg that has been used has set for computer games since a long time ago. For those not familiar with the Forgotten Realms novels, Icewind Dale is a cold snowy place at the north where R.A. Slavatore signature character, Drizzt Duorden and his friends live. Unfortunately the game starts before he arrives so there is no ...  Read the complete review

You can play Heart of Winter either by finishing Icewind Dale, in which case you'll move right into the expansion, or by starting an "expansion only" game. If you choose to do the expansion only game, you can import your characters from the original game Or you can import some special pregenerated characters that have been designed for use with this expansion pack. They're high-level characters that will allow you to handle the high-level monsters that you'll face. You could also try creating new characters, but that would make the game impossible to play. There are some new special abilities available. Rangers have a new tracking skill ...  Read the complete review