Dungeon Siege, is it anygood? (Dungeon Siege (PC))

Member Name: winsy

Product:	Dungeon Siege (PC)
Date:	25/07/02 (45 review reads)
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Advantages: great fun, good graphics, gr8 game

Disadvantages: linear, repetitve

Well yes it is, this game combines elements taking from many different RPG game, i think the game it takes most of its ideas from is diablo, the inventory system is similar, some of the layout is the same, and theres alot of other little bits that seem familiar from somewhere.

The games starts of by you creating your own playable character, the character has to be a human, which is a bit of a draw back, i would have loved to be an elf, or a dwarf or something. The game is set in the kingdom of EHB, EHB has always been a beutiful place of peace and tranquility until the Krug start killing and slaughtering innocent people. Its then your task to save your world and your people from this danger, but being a smnall time farmer that could be a quite a tsk, so you have to journey on quite a similar linear path through out the game picking up peoples to join your team and talking to npc's getting little tasks and missions to carry out.

This game is quite repetitive, you go through a forrest maybes some hill and a cave, ten its a town, then its the forrests and the hills again then another town, if this wasn't such a good game then this would be extremely anooying. The fighting system in the game is basically like a sorta of RTS, you click on the enemy you want to attack and your dude, or party will go and bash the living hell out of which ever nasty pasty you like. The battles can sometimes get over whelming if you have to fight loadsa of baddies with a huge team, you can have a team of up to 8 and it can get frustrating when you don't realise who's dying and your only sorcerer dies and no one else can resuurect him, because that would mean a huge jounrey back to the nearest town and then back to his dead body :(.

Besides from this lineararity, this game is amazing, it had great visuals, some great sounds and a huge world, that will see you through about 30 hourse of gameplay, it took me 25 hours to finish the game but thats near
enough.

Each of the characters in your team has stats tyhet depends on what they do in the game, the more they fight with sowrds the better they get with swords, its not a case of getting xp points them spending them on different stats, this is a good system as you can develop a squad of different stykle fighters to help and sometime hinder battles LOL. You can even hacve a packmule n your team, which don't fight very well, and can;t have weapons but they can carry about 3 times as much as a normal character.

The game has alot of nasties to kill and alot to see and do, but like i said sometime can be very repetative, if you like diablo and games like that, then this is a sound ourchase and i do recomend it, as theres a mulitplayer section and you can get an editor to make your own dungeons.

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