Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter incorporates the award-winning gameplay elements found in Icewind Dale, offering players the ability to hone their combat skills, and achieve more powerful possessions, spells, and experience. Supporting 800 x 600 high resolution graphics and improved OpenGL 3D support (developed by Bioware for Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn™), Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter adds new spells including the wizard’s Abi-Dalzim’s Horrid Wilting and the cleric’s spell of Blade Barrier. Players will be able to explore five new treacherous lands, as well as Lonelywood (another of the Ten Towns), and encounter new creatures including Barbarians, undead, Remorhaz (polar worms) and more. Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter will also feature powerful new magical items like The Ring of the Will-o-Wisp, which allows the wearer to shoot a shower of electricity at enemies, and the Vexed Armor, a suit of armor inhabited by a demon, where the demon inside can destroy the wearer and go on a destructive rampage.

The Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter expansion makes use of a modified version of the award-winning BioWare Infinity Engine™, originally developed by BioWare for Baldur’s Gate™, and the forthcoming, Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter offers novice and advanced players more challenges, allowing them to reach levels upwards of 22nd depending on the character.