Enjoy the original Dungeon Siege II, where you'll fight for fortune and glory on the continent of Aranna. Build up new attacks, develop powers to help you face monsters and build your legend in a strange new world. Succeed in yor quests and you'll face the powerful Vardis -- a warlord whose power is a danger to all things.
In Dungeon Siege II - Broken World your heroism has proven damaging. After you beat the warlord, the world starte coming apart -- and the people of Aranna blame you for this. New monsters appear in the countryside -- patchwork creatures who seem to be made from pieces of several beasts. To clear your name and improve your reputation, you decide to Head into the shattered lands and find the source of these new monsters.
Also includes a Making of Dungeon Siege II DVD, plus collectible maps, portraits & wallpapers
Rating: - Fun, but with some hiccups
I bought this game to play multi-player with my son, since Diablo II has too much suggestive content. The game mechanics are not as good, but the graphic are quite nice and the story lines and quests are enjoyable. I have, however, had some problems with using characters for both single player and multi-player and with saving multiplayer games. Any time you import a new character in with an existing one, you have to start the quests all over, which is a bit dull, especially given how powerful the characters are relative to the monsters at the beginning.
From an interface perspective, spell casters don't have a good, quick, method for changing equipped spells without using the mouse (i.e. no hotkeys), and the nature mages are pretty useless without a party to support. The good news is there is lots of opportunity to hire or recruit npc's to work with you.
Rating: - Good, hack-and-slashing, treasure hording fun.
Dungeon Siege II Deluxe Edition, which includes the Broken World expansion, is a good dungeon crawl experience. If you are familiar with the first, the gameplay hasn't changed much. Point-and-click to move and to attack. The party system allows for different tactics and approaches to the many boss and mini-boss battles you'll encounter.
There are, however, some rough spots. Just like the first Dungeon Siege, once you have chosen a character progression path for your character, you're pretty much stuck with it until the end since the game itself discourages spreading yourself too thin.
Another gripe with the game is the rollercoaster difficulty level. You'll be coasting along quite well until you encounter a particular boss that has some particular trait that makes him nearly invulnerable. You'll die often as each death drops whatever equipment you were carrying making you race towards your tombstone to retrieve your good gear and hoping that you can make it there before you are cut down again. It can be very frustrating.
Overall, Dungeon Siege II is a solid dungeon-hack RPG. The graphics are good, the sound design is good, and the gameplay is familiar but still good. If you like trudging through forests, swamps, and, of cource, dungeons, in search of the hottest loot, this game will suite you just fine.
Rating: - Awesome fun when you are tired of MMO's or regular FPS
I started playing DS when it was first beta tested way back when and Microsoft knew what it was doing in the gaming world-it was fun and new. Since that time Microsoft has fallen to the wayside of the gaming industry; other than HALO, and this poor title has been set out to pasture to die with all the other good games that could have been great. I pull this game out whenever I am burnt-out on fast paced FPS or MMO's that are way to complicated to enjoy sometimes. This game has timeless storyline and fun and amazingly still runs on my computer with MS Vista.
Rating: - poor condition
I got the game from J&R Music and Computer World through amazon. The game arrived late and in a flimsy padded envelope, smashed up and crushed. The game CDs survived intact but have red ink from the retail game box stuck to the data side of the disks. I'm going to have to try to clean them up before i install it as I expect the terrible condition of the package is going to make a return difficult if not impossible. The one nice thing is that the broken world expansion pack is included in the deluxe edition. My advice: buy from amazon, not J&R Music.
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