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Desslock Reviews Heart of Winter

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Apr 4, 2001.

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    Desslock's RPG News has reviewed the expansion this time, with one of the lowest scores I've seen yet. Most harshly criticized are the value (of course) and the gameplay. Here's one reason why:

    But Heart of Winter takes Icewind Dale's few flaws and emphasizes them. Not only are there numerous, generic monsters, Black Isle has distorted the entire D&D combat system in its design. D&D combat has always been open-ended - use missile weapons, close combat weapons, offensive/defensive spells, at your discretion. A few very powerful creatures have magical resistances (in addition to creatures that, by their nature, are immune to certain attacks, such as fire elementals being immune to fire), but generally the D&D system allows you to succeed using a variety of tactics. Not so in Heart of Winter, which has abandoned D&D's traditional system in favour of an unintuitive "rock/paper/scissors" system, where almost every creature is virtually immune to all but one class of weapons. Even the included D&D monsters, such as the impressive Rhemoraz worms, are given a bunch of new immunities, solely to make the game "harder".

    Read the rest of Desslock's review here.
     
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