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I pretty much got this for the multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played DS 1 while in college with my roommates. I'm not a huge fan of the single player because I don't like managing parties; However I love to play the multilayer with my friends. This game is really good because you don't have to take it seriously and you don't have to play for hours to have fun.

ANOTHER BOTCHED SEQUEL...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When the original game is a groundbreaking masterpiece, its sequel rarely lives up to the unavoidable hype. There are notable exceptions of course (BALDUR's GATE II and MAX PAYNE II spring to mind). However, I have to agree with most of the other reviewers: NEVER had I been so DISAPPOINTED with a sequel more than DUNGEON SIEGE II!
Following the innovative and brilliant original DS, the anticipation was so great that minor flaws would be forgiven. With DS2, though, it was one big blunder after another.

Contrary to the original DS (for which one had to physically tear himself from the computer screen) this one is a boring chore. Running back and forth to the base camp to barter equipement is a tedious procedure with all the fun sucked out of it. Moreover, no matter how much you improve your character (either leveling up or equipment-wise), your enemies simply match your abilities (or resort to crowding) resulting in NO CHANGE in the gameplay. I am not talking new enemies, but aren't higher leveled characters supposed to easily wipe out enemies encountered many hours before? This way, the whole game is nothing but a even-leveled blandness.

On a similar note: why was it necessary for **minor** enemies to have so much life? I was bored out of my skin hacking and slashing FOREVER! Increase the damage they can cause and keep it interesting - do not give them a longer life only to artificially increase the game's duration!
Oh, and the enchanting system was a joke - since the items found were much better than anything one could pay to have forged.

Graphically, DS2 is not even one step higher than the original DS. Shadows and particles may have increased, but characters (and equipment) have not. As a result, the heat of the battle (even on high-end systems) will find you in the midst of a disorienting...blur.

This was the chronicle of a botched job foretold. With the exception of OBLIVION (which was an excellent game), one can count on 2K GAMES to...ruin any game franchise and kill its successful progress once and for all. Gaming history is littered with the relics of their failures: STRONGHOLD II, CIVILIZATION 4 (not until its second expansion did this one become a playable game), SID MEIER's RAILROADS - the list is endless...They should probably stick to consoles.

My advice: avoid this stinker and, instead, try the original DUNGEON SIEGE (and its expansion). It is a MUCH BETTER GAME!

Good Game and Well Worth the Money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fun, action-packed, easy-to-play, lots of hack-and-slash and loot, no gameplay issues -- not a classic but lots of fun.

Microsoft's "Dungeon Siege II" is a fun, action-packed, easy-to-play fantasy role-playing game that is well worth the money. It's a fairly standard hack-and-slash game where you start with one character and recruit/befriend more characters to join your party (or purchase a pet!), up to a total of four in your party.

The graphics are good but the game interface is great. The controls are simple, user-friendly, and self-explanatory, and all of your note-taking and logging is kept in the game. (No need to keep a notebook by the computer because your quest book will remember everything.) The character interface is especially good, and you can easily compare your new weapons and equipment with what your character is currently using by simply picking up the new item - your character's stats will temporarily change to show both the current stats and stats with the new item. You can also easily zoom and move the 3-D view, although I wish that the game allowed a lower, behind-the-party view instead of the isomorphic above-the-party view.

The quests are easy enough to complete without the use of online guides, with lots of dungeons and bad guys to kill. However, the quests are very scripted, and you rarely have any choices to make when talking to others, you're just along for the ride. As is typical of this genre, your character follows his destiny in a struggle to save the world from one evil villain. Although the character acting is very bad, this doesn't detract from the game because the ongoing plot is just a sideshow to the action.

This game is a lot of fun with many hours of gameplay. I never had any problems with the software. The quests are not as involved or challenging as those in some older classics such as the Might & Magic or Wizardry games, but the monsters you face are not your typical fantasy monsters but are much darker and more macabre. This game is not a classis but is still lots of fun.

Nice game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just finished playing through this game, it was great. I gave up on DS1 halfway through it, because it just got sort of boring / tedious. DS2 seems to have better scenery and variability, so I played it all the way through without getting bored... :) Although I am not inspired to play another round at a higher level (what's the use, I saw everything already...?) I do recommend it... good difficulty level of puzzles, too. Challenging but no so much that you have to cheat ;)

Also, it ran perfectly well on my machine - 3 Ghz, 2 Gigs of RAM, and an NVidia GeForce 7800 GS. (An AGP, admittedly, but it's the best AGP there is!) I have no idea why those reviewers had problems running this game with their high-end cards. Maybe it runs worse on a PCI-E card? I can't imagine why that would make a difference, though. On my machine, it stuttered once or twice during a couple of those HUGE battle scenes with dozens of monsters, but 99% of the time it ran smooth as melted butter! No bugs, crisp beautiful graphics.. a pleasure to look at!

Vista?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very enjoyable when I had XP on my machine. Now that I've installed Windows Vista (which I do enjoy), this Microsoft game doesn't seem to be a "Game for Windows" product. I just can't get it to run, while older products like Rise of Nations run just fine under the new operating system. Somewhat surprising . . .

THEY'RE BACK!!!!!! (no, really) in this sequal, things are a lot more dark and intense.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Remember that fantasy land of Aranna you previously saved on Dungeon Siege 1? Well, unfortunately you gotta save it again from a new evil. In this continuation from the DS saga, A prince named Valdis controls a sword of Zaramoth, which was a destroyer of the first age of Aranna. So he attempts to rule Ehb under his thumb and so this is where you start. Starring as a mercenary, you go in a tutorial if you've been sleeping under a rock. You also make friends with an elf that eventually gets murdered by Valdis after realizing that Valdis physically plans to kill as many mercs as possible. Some nice guy...

Anyway, on with the positives: this game looks great obviously and so the requirements are dead cheap considering how exciting this game is. Not to mention that you have to pick one skill and go on with it if you want to succeed in the game.

This game is also a lot bloodier than the first one. Now almost all creatures who are weak can also explode and let's just say getting turned into mincemeat. So, keep the little kids who liked Dungeon Siege 1 away from this sequel. Although the gameplay is simple hack and slash, DS2 is still fun. Even new additions such as more races and special "powers" perk up the explanation of power. Plenty of plot twists make this game a successful collection to the Aranna saga.

Now, it seems like the negatives are kinda small for a game that size but still affects gameplay. One is that the space this hog takes is 4GB. Also the fact that you can be a so-called "Jack of all trades" can affect gameplay depending on how you play it. Even the voice acting is sadistic and the voice actors sound high but then again, it is an RPG game.

Anyway, great game, very few flaws. Buy if but if some kids cry, "Mommie, buy DS2" maybe hope that there is a way to block the guts and since I'm looking for one. If not, then maybe toss him something else. Also be aware that there is a single-player demo out that has certain areas but the good news is that the monsters respawn after you log off your hero so it'll make things interesting. Luckily for parents it is almost over 1GB so hopefully forbidden kids will have to wait a while before they install this blood-fest.

Dungeon Siege II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was an excellent game with lots of fun and excitement. Hours of fun. Only draw back was that you need it to go thru. each level, you could not pick. Graphics excellent, interface excellent and game play excellent!!!

DS 2--Dungeon Siege under siege

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I find this game great, but slow running and a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time in installing, not including a number of patches, as well. Game play is great, but the mapping leaves alot to be desired. The 360 camera turning is a pain as well. The clues that one gets to find 'treasure' or quests are sometimes extremely hard to figure out. There are still a few bugs to give one pause in playing this game: Doors that don't open, quest items that aren't there, enemies that don't attack or are stuck in the walls or trees, etc.

Otherwise, it is a nice game with fair graphics. The engine is getting old and I feel that it should of had better graphics and an updated engine for the price.

DS2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointed in this game. Perhaps when some good mods are written it will be playable. Spent maybe 2 hours messing with it and gave up.

For Fans...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dungeon Siege 1 was the game that got me started with RPGs, and I have been a fan of DS ever since. As such, I enjoyed DS2 as well. However, there are some aspects of this game that I didn't like too much. The save game system is odd. You can save everywhere, but it only saves what you have and what you have accomplished, not where you are. So when you re-load, you are always back to one of the 3 towns. This actually works better than one would think as it moves the game away from constant quick-saves and quick-loads. However, it does NOT work well whenever you die near a boss-battle, since you basically have to run back naked to get your gear. Not fun at all.

Another aspect I didn't like is the map. DS1 had a great map, while in DS2, I constantly was lost. Back-tracking to complete secondary quests is a major PITA for that reason. Makes me wonder what they were thinking.

Similarly, I didn't like the quest-log interface. I do not like seeing ahead of time how many quests there are. Neither do I appreciate the whole setup of the non-resizable log-screen that is just plain hard to read.

One of the oddest things is the difficulty level. You can only play at lowest difficulty until you played through the whole game. Once you are all the way through, you can re-play the game at a higher difficulty level and with more party members. Hu?!? WTF?

Oh, and btw: Your party now has a maximum of 3 members plus a pet that acts as a limited additional member. I liked the larger parties from DS1 MUCH better. Also, it was much easier to manage your party. I really do not appreciate this kind of dumbed-down gameplay.

Nevertheless, I had fun with this game. If you liked DS1 a lot, then you will still have fun with DS2.

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