Heart of Winter Review at RPGPlanet

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(Originally posted by Sorcerer)

For lack of any other relevant news, here's another review of HoW.
RPGPlanet's reviewer thoroughly explored the expansion and its new features, and liked it a lot. Even though I've played the beta I still wish those european distributors would hurry up a bit. It's probably going to take another week or two before the thing even gets here. Oh the joy of living on this side of the globe. Sigh.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Here's a short clip from the review:

Combat remains an intense hack 'n slash ordeal, rather than the smaller battles of Baldur's Gate II, they remind distinctly that Icewind Dale's focus is combat, and the expansion doesn't change this. The AI, however, has been improved, and anyone trying the old trick of attracting one creature through the fog of war and 'dividing and conquering' will find that the AI will call for help rather than sit there and let you hack them apart one by one.

This improvement raises the challenge of the expansion considerably, and forces players to use different strategies. The game also adds a number of new enemies, and older foes such as the frost giants benefit from the improved resolution boost. New enemies include formidable foes such as the drownded dead and the deadly wailing virgins of the burial isle, and polar menaces, such as remorhaz.

Read the rest here.