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Desslock has a report on his pages, speculating (or more or less comfirming) rumors about Icewind Dale 2:
While it hasn't been officially announced yet, Interplay is working on Icewind Dale 2, another BioWare Infinity engine game. While I've hinted in past ramblings that we may not have seen the end of the Infinity engine, and that Interplay was considering other Dungeons & Dragons products (in addition to Neverwinter Nights), I can now confirm that Icewind Dale 2 is in the works (and it's not necessarily the only new D&D game that is being contemplated).
Details on what you can expect from Icewind Dale 2 will have to wait until the game is officially announced, but the game will use the same engine used by the original game and its expansion pack, with possible minor improvements, and likely won't be as ambitious a game as BG2, given Interplay's aggressive target release date (rumoured to be the end of this year, according to a Fatbabies rumour than ran today , although I hadn't thought the schedule was that ambitious). I suspect that a lot of gamers are tired of the Infinity engine after an almost constant flow of new products using the engine since Icewind Dale was released over a year ago (and Planescape Torment and the original Baldur's Gate used the engine prior to that), but given the commercial success of Icewind Dale and BG2, there's probably still enough gamers interested in just having new areas to explore and creatures to fight (and Interplay will already have access to a tremendous library of creatures and items created for the prior games) to justify the creation of another game. |
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Icewind Dale 2?
