Dungeon Siege
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Dungeon Siege
Customer Review: Fun game, but not what I expected
Summary: 3 Stars
After reading other reviews I decided to give Dungeon Siege a try. I was amazed with the graphics and initial game play. Is very entertaining to equip your party with the most powerful armor. Like I said it is a fun and nice game.But it lacks something. It is very linear and very simple to complete. There are no side quests which is what makes RPG games fun. I was very dissapointed when I defeated the final boss and it was over. I said "thats it?,what about all the money I still have, what about the armor and weapons I still have in inventory, which I counldn't use because I needed to increase in strenght.
My final word is borrow the game from someone and go through it once because is a good game. Don't buy it because for that amount there are better games out there that CAN be called RPG. Neverwinter Nights Rules!
Customer Review: Beautiful game
Summary: 3 Stars
Beautiful graphics. The maps, effects, models, weapons are all gorgeous.The money system is severely flawed.
The story has some neat twists (especially with technology).
But while the character models are 3D, they are pretty 2D once they join your party. Nothing like the Baldur's Gate characters.
The boss monsters are lame. Very Nintendo.
Once you finish it, you'll uninstall it.
Still, it's worth playing once.
Customer Review: Dungeon Siege. How to make a game boring
Summary: 2 Stars
Dungeon Siege is the right game for you if all the interaction you need is to click once the mouse button and them go to get a coffee.Customer Review: Great grapgics and easy to learn interface
Summary: 5 Stars
I was hooked from the moment I started playing it. It looks great and plays with ease. A must have for the RPG addict.Customer Review: A tedious no brainer
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought the game cos the storyline sounded intriguing. Your character starts out as a farmer, with minimal fighting skills, who is sent off on a no. of (small) quests which involve, for at least 90% of the time, fighting and killing different kinds of monsters/animals/beings (trolls, krugs, gargoyles, swamp witches, hydracks, ice archers, spider droves, to name a few), In the process, depending on your choice of weapons, your character gets upgraded in his/her melee/archery/magic skills. Along the way, your character gets to meet several other characters with different skills, whom he/she can form alliances with (and whom you will have to manage as well, if you choose to include them into your team). The story climaxes in a final battle with the big boss (the overall mood and sceneries in the final chapter, as some gamers/reviewers have mentioned, is reminiscent of Diablo 2).
The pros...?
- The graphics. As with most recent Microsoft games, they were really good (the waterfalls, the streams, the mysterious landscape of the Cliffs of Fire, for example). The transitions between the different sceneries were also fantastic..as another reviewer had mentioned, it is a "continuous gigantic world where your character journey seamlessly...".
- The character options. You get a couple of options to build your character(s) the way you want your character(s) to be (skirmisher, archer, magician, sorcerer for e.g).
The cons...? The tedium of repetitive killing. The lack of more interesting or complex elements (e.g. riddles, puzzles) which would have made the game more challenging. The fact that I had enmassed the max. amount of gold coins allowed at the beginning of the last Chapter didn't make things more challenging. :)
I spent nearly 80 hours on this game, with a team comprising of 2 melee fighters, 2 archers, 2 magicians, and 2 pack mules (hint: apart from being carriers for an assortment of stuff, they are useful for something else). This must simply be one of the longest game that I had ever played. Also, the game was kind of anticlimatic at the end...you kill the big boss, and that's it (oh, there's something at the end of the game that does tell you that DS2 is in the works).
Buy it if you have nothing else to do.