Beamdog and Wizards of The Coast announced at PAX today that an Enhanced Edition for Icewind Dale is currently under development. This Enhanced Edition will be coming to PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets and phones, and includes a host of new features.
Some of these new features are:
-Six expanded quests, featuring content cut from the original game
-60 new items
-Heart of Winter and Trials of the Luremaster expansions
-31 new class and kit combinations from Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, well as the half-orc playable race
-122 new spells carried over from Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition
-Cross-platform multiplayer
-A new “Story Mode” difficulty setting to allow players to experience all of the story with none of the Game Over screens
-Available for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android
As the press release reads, Icewind Dale has been enhanced with new kits and character classes, dozens of new items and spells, and restored quest material cut from the original game. The redesigned user interface features Zoom capabilities and a Quickloot Bar, among numerous other improvements. Up to six players can simultaneously enjoy Icewind Dale with the new cross-platform multiplayer mode.
As Beamdog noted, the game will require a one-time activation during installation, but after that you can play the game offline or even transfer it to another computer you own for easy back-up.
Beamdog has also revealed the first screenshots and a trailer that can be viewed below.
Enjoy!
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memories……will pick up for co-op!
Sorry, I just have trouble believing you actually have 5 friends.
Try not to project your life onto others k….thanks…..bye
but gotta admit it made me laugh….
Rape. Rape never changes.
“Enhanced”
Hmm i’ve got both IWD2 and BG2 on GoG already. Any discount for getting Enhanced version? I should have waited for enhanced though.
just played through this series, really hope they do PST next
OMG yes IWD I hope they get round to IWD2, I can fix it but its a pain getting the game to run properly, it really doesn’t like the mirror image spell on modern systems.
I never had any issues like that, only pain was getting it to run in 1080p and not have big black spaces at the bottom of the screen because of the UI (needed a mod)
unlike IWD1, IWD2 does not use hardware 3d acceleration and so you need to Force Direct Draw Emulation
I am almost positive Beamdog will rectify that, likely utilizing some of the best community produced mods and quickfixes that were available.
“story mode” seems strange, IWD was much less about the story compared to baldur’s gate, but was far more of a dungeon crawler
Good news! 🙂
But hey D2LOD HD someone??? nobody? 🙁
damn you blizzard!
Awesome… just awesome!
The music in this game was phenomenal, and the story was classic DnD. Cannot wait, and hopefully they will soon announce IW2, as that was just as good if not better.
BEL-he-Fet!!!!