Icewind Dale
- Does not operate on Mac OS 10.2 or later.
Amazon.com Review
Icewind Dale intentionally avoids a sophisticated role-playing-game plot in favor of classic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons dungeoneering. The game is set in the frigid corner of the Forgotten Realms made legendary by author R.A. Salvatore’s novels. Many fantasy fans will be familiar with the well loved setting, but this time you get to make the heroes, and the adventures are your own.
Veterans of Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment will find BioWare’s Infinity game engine instantly recognizable and usable. AD&D fans will be pleased with the interpretation of AD&D 2nd Edition rules. With a few exceptions (no kits, no Drow player characters, no two-weapon fighting), you can take upon yourself that if it’s in the rule books it’s in Icewind Dale.
Players can make six characters from standard AD&D 2nd Edition races and classes as they set off to find an ancient evil buried in the Vertebrae of the World. Combat occurs in real time (no turns), but the action can be paused at any time in order to issue new instructions, prepare spells, or respond to a new threat. The designers keep combat quick 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.
Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment kept players hooked with an engrossing tale line, and, in the case of Planescape, brilliant writing. Particularly designed as a more action-oriented “hack and slash” RPG, Icewind Dale relies on combat and character advancement as its own reward. While it lacks the random dungeons and incredible magic items of Diablo, the high experience point cap and the ability to make all six of your party members make Icewind Dale a worthy addition to any AD&D fan’s game library. –Michael Fehlauer
Pros:
- Ability to make your entire party
- Polished computer game conversion of AD&D 2nd Edition rules
- Faithful re-creation of the Icewind Dale region as detailed by TSR and R.A. Salvatore
- High experience point cap lets players wield tremendous potential–and face equally powerful foes
Cons:
- Interface takes up too much of screen
- Small replay regard
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This game is a must have for any Mac Gamer. In my opinion better than Baulders Gate one and two and better than Dungeon Siege (not quite as excellent as Diablo 2). This game has a rich tale, excellent gameplay and pretty excellent graphic compared to other sports meeting at its time. The only downside is poor pathfinding and NPCs don’t Join your party. (also im not under 13 as it says it is i just don’t have a credit card so i couldnt right a real review)
Rating: 4 / 5
Really excellent RPG but it seemed to have a few frustrating glitches that were not addressed with the most contemporary patches. The game would occassionally lock my characters in place and not allow them to travel anywhere. They could melee if terrible guys were next to them, and they could cast spells and use ranged weapons as well. It got a bit hairy once in a while and made for some challenging fights. To resolve, I would have to get out of the game completely and restart the session. No reboot required.
I don’t know if the game would do this on grown-up Macs – I ran it on a new iMac dual core machine.
I did delight in the game and have now went on to Neverwinter Nights.
Rating: 4 / 5
Icewind Dale is a late, late comer to the Mac. If you absolutely need a novel BG/BG2 type fix, okay but as a game it takes a step back from BG2.
Rating: 3 / 5
Now no offense to all you Baulders Gate 2 Freaks but i liked Icewind Dale better that baulders gate 2. In ID I like the plot better and the game requires less patience. I like the enemys in ID. The only really huge downside is that you cant party up with NPCs you make your own party. At first i thought that was a splendid thought but when i played the game is really wasn’t. i missed going into taverns and finding a guy to join my party. It gave you a sense of interaction with the game. Anyway if you like D&D sports meeting pick this one up. 4 stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this game hoping for a return to the excellent ol’ days of Baldur’s Gate 1&2, some of my favorite sports meeting of all time. I checked out system supplies, since it’s an ancient game, but everywhere I looked said it worked on OSX. Seeing as my BG2 still works practically well, I thought I’d be safe.
I was incorrect. My Macbook runs OS 10.5, years ahead of the original OSX Icewind Dale is designed for. If your computer runs an operating system later than 10.1, do not buy this game. It will not run. You might be able to install it, but once you try to make a new game, not anything will work. Macplay once released a patch to run the game on 10.2, but after an hour of searching online, every link to said patch I could find was inactive, a dead link. Macplay has virtually disavowed any connection to Icewind Dale, and has no record of the game anywhere on its website.
So unless you have a computer that you haven’t updated in nearly a decade, save yourself the disappointment of being unable to start a splendid adventure and buy something else.
Rating: 1 / 5