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Icewind Dale 2 Download Free Full Game is a role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment, released on August 27, 2002. Like its 2000 predecessor Icewind Dale, the game is set in the Forgotten Realms fantasy setting in the Icewind Dale region. The player assumes control of a group of mercenaries in a war between the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale and a coalition of persecuted races and religions.

The game is designed as an action-oriented alternative to other Infinity Engine games, with less emphasis on exploration and story. It uses a real-time adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Third Edition ruleset. The Infinity Engine was extensively modified to comply with the Third Edition, but the team was forced to remove certain rules because of the engine's outdated nature. It was the final game to be developed using the Infinity Engine.

The game was well received by critics, who praised its combat, pacing, and use of the Third Edition rules. However, some reviewers felt that the graphics and engine had become outdated, and could not compete with its contemporaries. Icewind Dale 2 Free Download.

Gameplay

Icewind Dale II is a real-time adaptation of the D&D Third Edition ruleset. The game is viewed from an isometric perspective, and a head-up display (HUD) occupies the bottom of the screen. Accessible from the HUD are an automap and a journal that records quests and important events. The player uses a point-and-click interface to interact with the game; for example, clicking on the ground moves the selected player character, and clicking on a passive non-player character (NPC) will initiate dialogue. When conversations occur, the game presents multiple dialogue options. The game world is separated into area maps—obscured by fog of war—that are revealed as the area is explored. A multiplayer mode is available for up to six players over a local area network or the Internet.[1] The «Heart of Fury» mode is also available, which increases the game's difficulty and contains more powerful items.[1] The game features over seven hundred items; the designers included a system that randomizes the items the player obtains from enemies.[1][2]

When beginning the game, the player may choose to play a pre-selected party, or to create a party of up to six characters; unlike the Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale II does not permit the player to import characters from previous Icewind Dale games.[1][3] While creating characters, the player chooses their gender, race, class, alignment, and attributes, among other things. The player can sometimes choose a subvariety of a race or class, such as Deep Gnome or Cleric of Ilmater.[1][4] Race, alignment, and attributes affect the player character's available dialogue options, as well as NPC responses. For example, some NPCs will be prejudiced against certain races, or a character of low intelligence will have limited dialogue options.[1][5] Some sub-races in the game are significantly more powerful than the core races present in AD&D Third Edition; these sub-races must earn more experience points than others before leveling up. Characters can reach a maximum level of thirty.[1] It is possible to add additional characters to the party at any time, including during combat. Icewind Dale 2 Free Download PC Game.

Icewind Dale II‍ '​s gameplay is focused on combat. The combat system is a real-time adaptation of the turn-based system used in D&D Third Edition, which caused the developers to remove certain aspects, such as «attacks of opportunity».[7] Dice rolls are simulated by the game. In place of the turn-based rounds used in D&D, characters have independent rounds, during which they may execute one or more actions, depending on such factors as the duration of the action. The player can pause the game and issue orders to characters at any time. Each character can carry a limited amount of items.[1]

Plot

Setting

Icewind Dale II takes place in the Forgotten Realms D&D campaign setting, on the continent of Faerûn. It centers on the northern Icewind Dale region, and is set thirty years after the original game. The game begins in the harbor town of Targos, one of the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale, which is under siege by a goblin army.[8] The goblins are directed by the Legion of the Chimera, an army composed of outcast races and religious factions, such as goblinoids, half-breeds, and followers of winter goddess Auril.[9][10] Targos hires mercenaries to defend against the attack.[11] Areas encountered in the game include: the Black Raven Monastery, built over an entrance to the Underdark;[12][13] the town of Kuldahar, constructed around a magical tree that emits heat;[14][15] the Severed Hand, an ancient elven fortress that was lost during a war with goblinoids;[16][17] and the Dragon's Eye, a network of volcanic caverns inhabited by yuan-ti.[14][18] Other areas include the Underdark and the Jungles of Chult.[19][20]

Story

The game begins as the player's group of mercenaries arrives by ship to defend Targos.[11] They report to the town palisade and fend off an assault by the goblin army.[21][22] Afterwards, the mayor of Targos orders them to start an offensive on the goblin army.[23] The group kills the chieftain of the army, and discovers that he was under the command of a woman named Sherincal.[24] When they return to Targos, the mayor asks them to rendezvous with reinforcements from Neverwinter.[25] The group travels to meet them in an airship piloted by Oswald Fiddlebender. Icewind Dale 2 for PC.

A storm causes the ship to crash, and the group awakens to discover that a glacier blocks the reinforcements' path.[27] While investigating the glacier, the group finds Sherincal, a half-dragon, guarding the entrance to an Aurilite temple. They learn that Sherincal leads the Legion of the Chimera's western forces, and that the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera, cambion twins named Isair and Madae, reside in the Severed Hand.[28][29] Inside the Aurilite temple, the group finds a prisoner from Kuldahar, who asks them to warn Kuldahar of the threat posed by the Legion of the Chimera.[30][31] After this, the group creates a passage through the glacier, and meets with the reinforcements.[31][32]

As the group travels to Kuldahar, they meet a drow (dark elf) named Nym, who tells them that the pass to Kuldahar is guarded by the Legion of the Chimera, and that an alternate path through the Underdark exists.[33] Later, Isair and Madae locate the group with information from Nym. They state their intention to attack Kuldahar, and warn the group to not interfere.[34] The group then passes through the Black Raven Monastery to enter the Underdark.[35] After exiting the Underdark, they are flown to Kuldahar by Oswald Fiddlebender.[36]

When the group lands in Kuldahar, they discover it has been invaded by the Legion of the Chimera.[37] They meet the Archdruid of Kuldahar, who tells them that a portal has been opened to allow yuan-ti from the Jungles of Chult to assault Kuldahar.[38] After the group prevents the attack, the Archdruid tells them that they may reach the Severed Hand through an exit at the bottom floor of the Dragon's Eye.[39][40] The group travels through Dragon's Eye, and proceeds to the Severed Hand.[16][41] Once inside, they learn that the war between the Ten Towns and the Legion of the Chimera was caused by the mayor of Bryn Shander, who had sent Isair and Madae poisoned food.[29] They also discover that a mythal that was cast on the Severed Hand has been corrupted, and the structure will be transported to the plane of limbo.[42] Eventually, the group finds Isair and Madae, and kills them. Icewind Dale 2 Download Torrent.