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You Vill Go Vere Ve Vant

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: May 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I started off thinking this was going to be a great game. The graphics are great. The story line seems pretty good.

But.

The game is pretty much the same thing over and over and over just repackaged slightly. As you go up in strength, the creatures you fight get correspondingly harder. You add some more players but after the first extra player, the strategies stay pretty much the same the rest of the way. It's just as hard to get through the first few screens as it is to get through screens much further down the line. (Except for the "Boss" screens, some of which are pretty damn nasty.)

And when I say "further down the line", I mean line. This game isn't like Morrowind where you can pretty much go wherever you want and do what you what. You are locked into a world with very few options except for the occasional semi-hidden sidetrack.

There is no roleplaying in this game. Character development is just about gathering up as much stuff as you can get. And after you've got a gazillion dollars, what's the point?

There are a ton of other games I'd prefer to play.

Watson Davis

Highly engaging and extremely hard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: June 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow! What an amazing game. You better make sure you get off to a good start and select the right characters and weapons for your quests because if you mess it up your in for a hard time.

The gameplay is wonderful and never gets boring and the graphics are very detailed and atmospheric. The monsters and enemies can sometimes be a bit generic and it's not as gory as I would like it to be but this and the constant difficulty reduce this from a 5-star rating to 4-star.

I would recommend that you have a Pentium IV processor and a decent graphics card if you want the best performance out of this game. And decent speakers would be appropriate for when you cast those BOOMING spells.

Like most games these days this is designed for the most powerful and advanced machine. If you are fortunate enough to have one then buy this game to make the most of it. Even if you are not a big RPG fan the fun never ends. And neither does the game apparently. I've still to finish it ;)

Another great rpg

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game. The action is cool, the engine, graphics and sceneries are simply to die for. The soundtrack is composed by Jeremy Soule and is of the highest quality. I've made my own audio CD and listen to it every now and then, great medieval music.
The game does have some bad points however. The storyline is pretty thin, the game is very linear and the action is too much of a point-and-click thing.
If you plan on purchasing this title, you will be better off going for Dungeon Siege:Legends of Aranna as it includes this game and also the expansion pack. So save yourself the money and go for Legends of Aranna.

The best thing about Dungeon Siege? Lazarus

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: April 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me start with the plus side. This game is absolutely and entirely beautiful. The 3-D rendering is flawless and exquisite. The highly flexible camera angles also give you advantages in different combat situations. There is a large variety of weapons, armor and magical items available. (I'm not sure this is good. I found sorting through all of them and picking the best a bit bewildering at times.)

You fight an interesting variety of enemies, both in appearance and abilities.

Although it annoys some people, I like the character class system. Although different characters start with different ability levels, they basically become whatever you train them to be. If you want a soldier, have your character fight almost exclusively with melee weapons. If you want an archer, let her stick to her bow. You can also have a character develop his skills evenly across the board (but I suspect in practice this isn't a good idea).

If you want a quick summary, this game is like a highly developed Diablo with multiple characters. I didn't enjoy Diablo much because, although the combat system is well-developed and there is a great diversity in the type of foes you face, there is almost no coherent storyline. The same criticism applies to this game. Whacking monsters just for the sake of violence gets dull after a while.

The real reason I bought this game is for the Ultima V - Lazarus project based on the Dungeon Siege engine. Since I got that up and running I've been playing it all the time. That is a fabulous game that combines the best aspects of both the old (as in 1988) Ultima V and the more recent Dungeon Siege. It has an intricate and engaging story, beautiful graphics, fun monster-bashing and all kinds of other fun stuff.

Should you buy Dungeon Siege? Yes. Then immediately go download Lazarus and play that adaptation on top of it.

Nice graphics and some good sound, but nothing else.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Another RPG game that falls way short. Bear in mind, this review is for the single player version only. I'm not ambitious enough to get into the multiplay mode when other games take interest from this one.

GRAPHICS. (4 of 5) The graphics in this game are obviously the best it has to offer. I'm very impressed with the 3D technology involved giving nice renderings even when zoomed in close. Each of the items a character carries has it's own rendering. Each helmet, weapon, armor, etc changes your 3D model when equipped. That is very nice, but provides for some humor when you put certain helmets on Dwarves, they look like bicycle helmets. The background scenery is also very good providing what some would call "awe inspiring".

AUDIO. (4 of 5) A nice soundtrack and some great effects with the EAX turned on. You get a nice echo effect while in the assorted caves and cellers.

COMBAT ENGINE (4 of 5) For the first game using the engine, I found very little I could complain about. It does seem to be a little bit weighted to hack and slash. Mages are pretty weak and getting high level spells doesn't seem to help much as the low level spells advance as the magic level advances.

GAMEPLAY (3 of 5) Very good here. All of the buttons and hotkeys are quick to learn and you can start slashing in no time. But as far as providing good gaming entertainment... Give me Diablo2. It's item generating module is FAR better.

STORY (1 of 5) I play RPGs for a good story line. This one can be summed up in a couple paragraphs. As a friend of mine put it, the story is "on rails." There's no need to read any of the dialog (what little there is) or use your cognitive skills for any of it. No hunting for clues or anything.. just stay on the path and kill whatever gets in your way.

OTHER RAMBLINGS. Maybe I'm missing something by not going to multiplay, but fans tell me single player is better. Hmmmm. I almost gave this game a 4, but only because of graphics and sound. But when I think of a RPG, I look for much more. Also, the publishers and makers of the game claim that your inventory automatically arranges itself for efficiency. I saw several instances where I couldn't pick up an item that is 4 slots tall by one wide when I have 4 empty slots in inventory. I still have to manipulate to pick these items up. The pack mule is a nice addition, but I prefer to have an 8th character providing some melee action.

FINAL RECOMMENDATION. Don't expect too much from it if you buy it. It will provide you some entertainment, but if you are a diehard RPGer and enjoy the Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment kind of games, leave this on the shelf for somebody else.

Dungeon Siege Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Graphics
10/10! This game has some of the best graphics I have seen in a long time. The outside areas are a sight to behold. The dungeons look great. One of the great things about the graphics is not only are they bright and colorful but they are very diverse. Chris Taylor and GPS did a great job of making a world where you really feel like you are really moving forward through a living-breathing world that has so many huge diverse environments. The only bad thing I can say about the graphics and I am not sure if they are even the problem. The game seems to have huge system requirements on my p3 700 with 512 ram and a geforce 2 gts I get about 15 to 20 fps outside and 20 to 30 in dungeons. Now you have to remember that this is an action RPG so 20 fps is not that bad and you really don't see any choppiness it is just that in some areas that seem to slow down quite a bit. At some points I had only 5 to 10 fps. I am not sure this is a graphics issue though because no matter what resolution I choose or what color depth I use it does not make a difference. Now on my Dads computer. Witch is a XP 1800 with 512 ram and a geforce 3 500 he gets anywhere from 30-40 fps outside and about 60 in dungeons so it runs great on his system but most people obviously don't have that kind of system.

Sound
9.8/10: The in game music is just awesome. Some the best I have ever heard. Very ambient and really set the mode for where you are at and really helps get the juices runnin. The sound effect are great and fit each monster. The only one flaw with the sound is the in game voices. There is nothing wrong with the ones that are actually there. The problem is that there aren't very many of them. The only voices in game are from a few select NPC's I would have rather had them skip the NPC voices and had them give voices to some of the monsters like the bandits or the swamp witch.

Plot/Story
5/10: This is the only place this game doesn't shine. The story in the single player game is pretty non-existent. Now this is not a bad thing. There is tons of action and plenty of things to do it is just there is no real back-story. Now this is the only place I will mention Diablo in this review. The storyline in this game is pretty much the same as Diablo All the quest I have seen pretty much consist of going somewhere and killing some big monster and getting new treasure. Like I said pretty much the same as Diablo. While I am talking about the plot I will tell you that I have pretty much given up on single player right now. The multiplayer is just too much fun. The single player reminds me too much of playing Baldur's Gate. You end up pushing the pause button way too much and that just ruins the experience for me.

Game play
9.5/10: The Game play is just awesome. The automation that they added is really nice. can set your player to auto fire and just let him go. He will find an enemy based off of what you tell him (weakest, strongest, closest) and start fighting that monster. The auto loot is nice too but I don't use it much. I will explain why later. The action is great. It is fast and furious. you are constantly killing monsters. You will never be bored because the game doesn't allow you to be.

Multiplayer
9/10: The multiplayer game is the best way to play. I love the multiplayer. You can have up to 8 people playing at the same time in multiplayer. There are a few problems in multiplayer right now though. For one the game pauses every time someone joins the game. This has to be the biggest problem right now. Every time someone joins the game pauses for about 30 seconds while a player joins and if you in the middle of a dungeon there is no way for them to get to where you are unless they run all the way there. Now this is the reason why I don't use the auto loot and one of the big debates on the forums right now. Once you head out of town you are pretty much out there till you get to the next rest area where you can sell your stuff and buy more potions. Now some complain and want to have a way to port back to town to sell their stuff. For me I like it this way because it makes you selective on what you pick up. Some people want to be able to have pack mules in multiplayer but I think that would be the worse way to handle it. can you imagine 8 players all running around with their own pack mule. What I think would be a better way to handle it would be to have everyone a backpack about half the size of your normal inventory that you could use in multiplayer to allow you to carry a little more stuff. As far as teleport it would be nice to have waypoints that were on the main path and maybe in the dungeons. If GPG wants to stop people for using them to make loot runs constantly they could make them one way only so that you could only get on one in the town and teleport to where the rest of the people playing are.

Final comments: Right now I am having an awesome time with this game and plan on playing it for a long time to come. There are allot of really great games coming out this year but I can see this game taking up space on the little hardrive space that I have for a long time. Although there are some issues with the game right now. The fun factor is so huge that I just look past those few issue and know that Chris Taylor will get them fixed.

Final Score
Graphics 10/10
Sound 9.8/10
Plot/Story 5/10
Game play 9.5/10
Multiplay 9/10
Value 9.5/10

Overall (not an average) 9.5/10

Best Hack and Slash RPG Ever!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun bys yourself but even more fun when you play co-op with some friends. I actually broke my mouse a few weeks back playing this game. It is really fun. The 3d isometric graphics are top freakin' notch as well as the spell effects.

If you want a game like Torment, Fallout, or Arcanum. You will have to look elsewhere. But if you want a clickiy game like Diablo 2 but better (imho), then this is where you go.

Highly Addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

OK, remember how addictive Baldur's Gate and Diablo 1/2 were? Now imagine that the two games are combined together with even better graphics and more personalization. And imagine that multiplay is amazing. That's what you get with Dungeon Siege

This game is amazing. It's fully customizeable. You choose your character and get to choose male/female, hair color and style, skin color, shirt and pants, and even get options like mohawks and tattoos. Your character is a farmer descended from the 10th Legion and now just trying to live a quiet life. But of course, you can't. The evil baddies come into town and it's time to hack.

The interface is a cross between Diablo and Baldur's Gate, with the best of both worlds. It's fully polygonal - you can zoom in and out, spin around, change the angle, anything you wish! Your character in his (or her!) fully customized glory goes wandering around, scaring off the chickens and rabbits and little fairies that hang out innocently, while fighting off a huge range of graphically amazing monsters. There are stony gargoyles, fleshy pig-beasts, and all sorts of things in between.

The buildings are multi-levelled and the game makes it easy to go from floor to floor. Sometimes the game is picky about here you click - you can try to go IN a building and end up going behind it - but you get the hang of that pretty quickly. You can sometimes try to click on an enemy to attack it and instead start meandering over to that spot of ground. Be sure to know where you click!

Like Diablo, this isn't heavy in storytelling. Yes, there's a general plot, and you hit little side quests along the way. But you go a VERY VERY long way at the start of the game before you find anything town-like, so don't even bother trying to store up all the random things you find along the way. You'll run out of room long before you reach town.

You meet party members and can have them join you if you wish. Each person has his or her own skillset, and your own grow over time. Keep twanging that bow, and you become an archer! Use those magic spells again, and magic becomes your speciality! You're not restricted like in other games to a certain class. In this one, every single character starts out exactly the same. What you choose to do affects how you develop.

The various weapons and armor and magic items you find are quite fun and well designed. The graphics are just great. Shadows, flickering candles, fog, it's all here. True eye-candy, and if you don't have a GEforce 3 or GEforce 4 yet, it's time to buy one.

Even the arrows you shoot go thudding into your enemies. Try hitting pause while one goes whistling past your head! Shoot three into that pig-creature and zoom in to see that they all hit! Shoot at that fast enemy and watch him dodge your arrows! It's just amazing.

Highly Recommended and extremely addictive.

A terrifically thoughtful and well-done game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a truly impressive achievement. It's easy to understand, seemingly bug-free, with gorgeous graphics and tactical gameplay.

Perhaps the best way to envision this game is to imagine Diablo 2 in three dimensions with Quake 3 level graphics and stellar animation. Trees sway in the wind, your packmule twitches its ears and shakes its head, little squirrels scuttle by and flocks of birds take flight at your passing. Animations, for fighting or walking, is natural and skeletal.

The nice thing is, you don't need a top end machine to view this beauty. I actually have only played this game on my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, which features a Geforce 2 video card, 256 MB of memory, and a 800 Mhz Pentium III processor. Those are a decent stats, but they're not stellar, and yet the game flows with hardly a hitch.

The big difference between Diablo 2 and this game, however, is the way in which battle is carried out. It sort of runs like Age of Empires or Starcraft, with the ability to pause the action to give further commands, like Hold Position, Engage, and so on. This gives the battle scenes -- which are numerous -- the same kind of tactical flair. Also, unlike Diablo 2, which in the end sort of degenerates into a sort of high-end Gauntlet, where millions of little foes pursue you ad nauseum, Dungeon Seige also features enormous foes, scaled to real size, in full 3d, with numerous powers, from casting spells to breathing ice or electricity. Figuring out how to kill these behomeths is a much more strategic enterprise.

So far, it doesn't seem that the story is terribly deep. That may change as people make use of the Seige Editor, which allows owners of the game to create their own puzzles and dungeons. But for a more thoughtful, tactical version of Diablo, with gorgeous graphics, this is a great choice.

Some pros and cons

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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Pros:
1. Great graphics, one of the best I have seen, this makes looking at it, worth it at the least.
2. Great interface design, highly intuitive. Imagine being able to control 8 characters with ease. This is something many games can't do properly, like Baldur's Gate. I think they just set the standard here. The inventory system, the mule concept, passing items between characters, the best design I have seen.

Cons:
1. Too many monsters, need to balance this. It becomes work, and it isn't fun anymore.
2. Monster AI needs more work. Easiest way to beat them, is to take one little step forward at a time. This way, you can deal with only a few enemies at a time.
3. Hard to level up and get nice stuff. Diablo 2 is much much better here. However, the concept of which skill (such as the bow, spell or magic) you use more often is the skill that actually improves is a good one. I just wish you could assign stat improvements on strength, dexterity etc, yourself.
4. Story disappears somewhat... eventually all you do and remember is to hack away at the many many monsters. Diablo 2 is better here.
5. Lack of "character appeal" on the part of the Heroes. This is probably due to the fact, you get too many additional partymates early in the game. Of course, you also need the additional help considering there is a huge monster population. Diablo 2 is much better here.

Bottom line:
It's worth looking at, but I got tired of playing this game fast. When Dungeon Siege II comes out, I am sure to buy it, just to see if they have "improved" on the game. The game does have a lot of strong points they can build on.

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