Ice can be fun, wind is not

Icewind Dale is a Dungeons&Dragons based RPG, In which evil has suddenly plagued the world, and your party must stop it. Whether you like it or not. That's the major problem with this game. No matter what allignment you have chosen, you still end up doing the same quests. When someone chooses to be evil, they should work against good, or for themselves, and not working for the good of the world. But the customization is nice. You can choose from an array of races and then choose a job and align some weapon skills. Then you will choose an allignment for each character, and then you have a band of wouldbe adventurers ready for fun and alcahole, which you can buy at a pub. The graphics aren't very good, even for the time the game was made. It looks worse than the first Diablo which was released in 95. The gameplay consists of completing alot of sidequests and leveling up your characters. Which, by the way, can take an excruciatingly long time. This is because of the really tough difficulty later on. Expect to spend at least a day of hard and boring levelling up in order to survive. Money is a big issue too. You will go to a shop and gawk at the really expensive weapons. And expect to gawk forever. The voice acting is actually good, except for the things your party members say. Who talks while battling? Although the game is fun for those who like customization and constant levelling up, those who like the more fast paced RPG's like Baldur's Gate or Diablo will want to stay away.