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Icewind Dale Mac Review at Gamers Press

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Apr 14, 2002.

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    (Originally posted by Mollusken)

    The Macintosh version of Icewind Dale apparently keeps the same standard as the PC version. Out of a possible 10, The Gamer's Press rates it with an 8.

    The port of the original PC game to the Macintosh has been flawless. Both games look the same, and the performance is suited for almost any hardware platform. I've been playing Icewind Dale on both my Powermac Desktop unit, and my Powerbook laptop. There's no performance issues on either one, though I do kick it up a few notches on the desktop machine by bringing it up from 640x480 to 800x600 - the highest resultion it will go. (A few cold notches, mind you.)

    Macplay has taken care of every little detail. The network mode is the same as in the PC version, and if you sat a PC user in front of a Macintosh playing Icewind Dale, he wouldn't notice a change - the keystrokes are the same. The only difference is that if you don't have a two button mouse (I use a Microsoft Intellimouse myself), you have to press Command-Click to emulate the secondary mouse button.

    Icewind Dale is a fun game because Bioware understood the importance of details - making the interface as perfect as they could, giving the player all the control they wanted, and making setting up a network game a snap. Macplay has continued that trend, in making Icewind Dale for the Mac (specifically OS X) just as smooth. Change from Full Screen to Windowed mode to take notes? It just works - no muss, no fuss. Want to Hide it when it's in Windows mode? No problems - the game pauses automatically so you can takes notes (or keep your boss from knowing what you're doing on company time.)

    Read everything over at The Gamer's Press.
     
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