- Yep.It's the Ultimate Collection, alright. I'm not sure how a collection of Icewind Dale computer games could get any ultimater. It's got both the actual games as well as a bonus CD-ROM. Anything else and it would cease to be an Icewind Dale Ultimate Collection and become, for example, an Icewind Dale Ultimate Collection with a side order of french fries. Fries, for what it's worth, tend to go "bad" when placed on a computer store shelf for weeks at a time, so that's probably a good decision.
You can create all kinds of characters to be in your party. I created the Charlie's Angels and teamed them up with Jack, Janet, and Chrissy from "Three's Company" because I have always wanted to see how well they could fight crime in the form of goblins and were-beasts. As it turns out, pretty well, although casting Jack Tripper as a paladin was stretching things a bit (maybe Mister Ferley LOLOLOL!). The second one has various and sundry "quirks" you can give your characters that will remind you of Knights of the Old Republic if you forget that the Black Isle people actually ripped the idea off from Interplay's Fallout I and II. Anyway, it's still a cool idea.
The one thing I don't like about RPGs like this one is that they give you all these skills to choose from and yet they're all combat-related. If I wanted to create a swashbuckling pack of accountants it would be impossible to do so because the game does not recognize accounting or even accounts payable as an actual skill. I don't know about you but to me that's a serious mark. I still gave the game 5 stars because it's so old that accounting was not I don't think around in the late 1990s.
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