Icewind Dale Official Strategies & Secrets [With Poster]

by Jason Suinn and Chris Avellone

Icewind Dale is the next Dungeons & Dragonsrole-playing game from Interplay's Black Isle Studios, publishers of the smash hit Baldur's Gate, and developers of Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment. It's certain to be a must-have title for all fans of the genre. Sybex's exclusive, official guide is written by a pair of Black Isle insiders, and features comprehensive maps and walkthroughs, inside stats and strategies, plus an exclusive full-color poster!...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782127843
• ISBN13: 9780782127843
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Sybex gets it right.

This represents very good value. Walkthroughs are clear and very detailed. No overly cute asides or bad attempts at humor. NPC/monster descriptions are loaded with useful info. Extensive lists of magic items, etc. ... it's just all done very well. A special Bonus Star for bothering to spell words correctly and write as if English was their first language instead of their 41st -- way above the abysmal quality you get with most PC game hack jobs.Very nice job; don't hestitate to pick it up.

For casual tourists and the parents of frantic kids

Icewind Dale will keep kids busy for a long time, and this guide is written at their level. Parents can use it to save themselves a good deal of grief when kids get stuck somewhere in the game. As a casual "tourist" player of these games, I like to be sure I've gotten EVERYTHING there is to get out of each level of play. This book did it without breaking my budget.

Helpful, but still...

I, much to my disgust, have used more than one or two hint books, and this one was an above average one. It had very detailed walk-through, but it's lacking a certain in-depth analysis into the side quests. It focuses on the linear story of the game instead of the much more challenging and entertaining side quests. It does, however, give a detailed description of artifacts and spells and the like and advice on how to use them. It's definitely helpful, and it will get you through the very linear story in a hurry. However, it does leave the side quests to the reader.