Isle Studios role-playing game". Computer Gaming World said that "[the] sound effects, music, and voiceovers are all excellent". Icewind Dale II was nominated for Computer Gaming Worlds 2002 "RPG of the Year" award, which ultimately went to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The editors wrote that Icewind Dale II "is the last great game from a fading engine, and we love it". It was also a nominee for PC Gamer USs "2002 Best Roleplaying Game" and The Electric Playgrounds "Best RPG for PC" awards, but lost both to Neverwinter Nights. Allen Rausch, writing for GameSpy's 2004 retrospective "A History of D&D Video Games", wrote "while nobody would mistake it for '2002 RPG of the Year' material, Black Isle Studios managed to give the Infinity engine a terrific game as its swan song". Enhanced edition Other Black Isle games, including Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, have been remade into Enhanced Editions by Beamdog, such as Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition. Beamdog had unsuccessfully tried to do the same for Icewind Dale II due to the unavailability of the source code to the game. However, there is a fan project currently in beta testing to create an Enhanced Edition. The Red Chimera Group, a team of modders, coders, artists, and other contributors drawn from the Infinity Engine community, is re-building Icewind Dale II and producing an Enhanced Edition. The Enhanced Edition will feature streamlined gameplay, a rebalanced class system, and new content. The team is using WeiDU, a program used to develop, distribute and install modifications for games based on the Infinity Engine. References External links 2002 video games Black Isle Studios games Cooperative video games Forgotten Realms video games Infinity Engine games Role-playing video games Video game sequels Video games developed in the United States Video games featuring protagonists of selectable gender Video games scored by Inon Zur Video games with isometric graphics Windows-only games Windows games