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Dungeon Siege with Legends of Aranna Expansion Review
User Submitted Dungeon Siege with Legends of Aranna Expansion Reviews
Date: 2008-10-03
Dungeon Siege - A Forgotten Legend
STORY: 2/10
GAMEPLAY: 9/10
SOUND: 8/10
GRAPHICS: 10/10
VOICEACTING: 7/10
CONTROLS: 10/10
INTUITIVITY: 10/10
COMBAT: 10/10
FRUSTRATION LEVEL: 0
Dungeon Siege is a most entertaining game that has been lost in the dank, dusty halls of video game antiquity. No one I've talked to had heard of it, yet after reading ancient reviews of the game, I went out on a limb and purchased Legends of Aranna (definitely the way to go; Microsoft included Dungeon Siege with its expansion). I was delighted.
I received the game on a quiet weekend and ended up playing it for three days straight, every spare moment. I still didn't get a third of the way through the ORIGINAL game!
I cannot honestly say Dungeon Siege has a great story; it's recycled, it's simplistic, and it barely makes an appearance in the game. However, where Dungeon Siege really shines is its pure and unadulterated hacking and slashing. Dungeon Siege removes most of the frustrations that can occur in a hack-and-slash game, and strips down the genre to good, clean fun. There are far too many features aiding in making the experience simple and fun for me to go into here, but as a taste, Dungeon Siege includes packmules to carry extra loot, a spell called Transmute that turns the loot you still can't carry into gold (so you never lose any of your delightful items!) and one of the cleanest and simplest levelup systems I've ever seen.
When you're through with the original game, and Legends of Aranna, it's important to note that there are many siegelets (small games that are built on the dungeon siege engine) available; two from the company, and many available at random sites on the internet. These can add many dozens of hours of gameplay to an already turbo charged product.
In conclusion, for those who like hack and slash gameplay, Dungeon Siege delivers an incredible amount of value at an incredibly small cost.
Date: 2008-09-15
A good game at a great price!
I played the demo of this back when it first came out and was impressed but had other games I wanted to play. I wasn't really into the party gaming thing and enjoyed the solo romp of games like Diablo II and Morrowind.
Several years have gone by and I thought I'd buy this, with the expansion pack for cheap! So I've played and beat the original game, and just started on the expansion. It doesn't seem like you can import your character into the expansion, which makes it more like a new game than a true expansion, but that's how it goes. Anyway, it's not particularly wonderful, and definitely dated at this point, but it's a great time killer. And if you feel like being a casual gamer, the AI takes control of your character if you're not doing anything with it and will generally seek out enemies and defend itself. So if like me, you like to play games during dinner or snacking, this game is great, because it auto-plays itself :)
The story is typical, the AI is fairly well developed. The enemies are unique and bosses are big and scary. weapons are fairly cool. Lots of unique goodies. The average swords and bows, but there's also a chain-gun and flame-thrower, so you know, it's definitely pushing the boundaries of sword and shield fantasy.
I'm running a fairly decent gaming rig with Windows Vista, and despite the warnings of incompatibility, I was able to install and NO-CD patch the game and it plays flawlessly.
Definitely worth my money.
Date: 2008-08-08
Dungeon Siege
Having just completed this game that I've had in my shelf for years now, but never played before now, I must say it was a bit of a mixed experience. The creators of the game have removed quite a lot of those annoying things we know from other games; running 50 miles back just to pick up the one item you needed but had no idea what was and various other small issues that tend to get annoying in RPG's. The graphics are also very beautiful, but because of the way the scenery is built up, you start using the minimap a lot while you play, which makes you loose out on a lot of beautiful scenery. I wish they could have included a "maximap" too, so it would be possible to see which areas you hadn't gone to yet, instead of just a tiny area. In addition to this, the biggest flaw in this rather "standard" RPG-game is the lack of a story. There aren't really any "quests" to speak of, it is just a linear story where you speak to a few people, and you sometimes accidentally complete a task they wanted you to do, but that you would have to do anyway to progress in the game.
If they had bothered to make a proper story for the game, and perhaps made some of the dungeons a bit smaller, it gets tiresome just watching your characters hack and slash their way through the same type of monsters for hours on end while the same dungeon never ends. Another issue is that the game is too "easy", meaning the usual strategy would be just to run in and attract as many monsters as you can, then sit and watch while your characters slaughter them.
So all in all, doesn't even come close to the Black Isle-games or NWN, but despite what may seem like a very negative review, I did enjoy the game enough to complete it, something I seldom do. Recommended if you liked NWN or any of the Black Isle-games, just don't expect to tickle your intellect. 4 stars.
Date: 2008-08-07
Best RPG Ever!
This is my all time favorite RPG for the PC. I had it when it originally came out then got rid of it and moved onto other games, but nothing entertained me like this one did.
Date: 2008-07-21
Awesome stress-reliever
I'd played through this game a while ago and decided to revisit it. It wasn't a disappointment even the second time around! The gameplay is smooth, landscape incredible, and the expansion provides better use of mages and easier switching between spells. If you're looking for an intricate, engaging storyline, you may want to look elsewhere. (There is a storyline, but it's more of a side-note than anything else.) But if you don't mind a twinge sci-fi/fantasy cheesiness, and you like bludgeoning hordes of hideous creatures until they croak (an excellent stress-reliever if you ask me), then this is a game for you. Oh, and the gameplay environments are stunningly beautiful much of the time. So you can bludgeon away at those evil hordes in the most picturesque places! What more could you ask for?
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