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POOR

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 21
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Dungeon Seige was arguably the best game on the market, but Dungeon Seige II is a poor rendition of the the origional. I threw it in the garbage it is that bad!

Does not work on Vista 64 bit

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well I do not know how this game plays because it crashes sometimes in the game menu or about 5 minutes into the game. There are no patch fixes out that I can find for this.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game in itself is not too bad, an average game, I would say. Oblivion 4 is MUCH better. What is truly disappointing is the expansion pack, I have never been able to make it work, the game shuts down each time I try to launch the expansion pack.

Unhappy with this Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: February 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was not told nor was I able to read anything about by installing the game it would erase all my DS-II characters. I have uninstalled the game and thinking very hard on selling it to some other poor sap. How ever it was delived on time and in good shape and that's the best part of the game.

TEDIOUS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I assume that I, like most folks who play computer games do so for fun. This game is really no fun at all which is a shame since it does have some good ideas. Unfotunately, these are completely spoiled by the tedium of much of the game. First of all, the camera perspective swings wildly as if it were being contrlled by a monkey on LSD. No fun. This camera stuff makes it difficult to focus on the enemies who are after you. Which brings up another point. You are always surrounded by foes who have at least twice the amount of life that you do and there are always many more of them so the only tactic you can use is hit and run over and over and over and.... No fun. Then there are lots of complex puzzles which are extremely difficult and really make the game drag. For me, I like games that flow, not ones which require lots of tedious problem solving. I have problems in my own life which I MUST solve, I do not want more riddles when I am trying to have fun. I found this aspect of the game so irritating that I turned to an on-line guide just to get through it. No fun. But for me, the worst feature of the game is the length of time it takes to fight some battles. I kid you not, one battle took
four hours to complete and I got no credit in terms of experience for it. No battle in a game should take more than half an hour let alone four. This was so tedious that when I could no longer stand it, I saved the game and went on with my life until I could resume the tedium. Much to my dismay I foung that when I returned, I had to begin all over again. Although I was eventually able to finish, I was done with this game. No fun. The only reason I gave this tedium any stars at all is due to the beautiful graphics and the interesting character choices. None of this, however makes up for the tedium and slow pace of this game. I found it frustrating and irritating, not fun.

ANOTHER BOTCHED SEQUEL...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 23
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!

ANOTHER BOTCHED SEQUEL...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
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!

A Great, So-So Game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great step up from the first Dungeon Siege. The graphics are decent, the leveling up is often enough and the character creation is good enough. However, the game itself is very monotonous. Every quest requires you to fight through several swarms of baddies. I find it boring to sit there while your party wails on your foes for a good three minutes, and that is if they are at equal or lesser level that you are. The only driving urge to play is to progress the storyline, but it isn't fun. The story is good, but not really worth the effort of running around to battle re spawning creatures. I have yet to get to the expansion "Broken World" and I am not sure I ever will.

Hack and Slash Simplicity

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Without the ever sometimes mind boggling what will dex, str, energy, etc. do. Fun starter RPG for the masses that could lead to the more demanding and challenging worlds of NWN, etc.

poor condition

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I got the game from J&R Music and Computer World through amazon. The game arrived late and in a flimsy padded envelope, smashed up and crushed. The game CDs survived intact but have red ink from the retail game box stuck to the data side of the disks. I'm going to have to try to clean them up before i install it as I expect the terrible condition of the package is going to make a return difficult if not impossible. The one nice thing is that the broken world expansion pack is included in the deluxe edition. My advice: buy from amazon, not J&R Music.

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