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This game is totally FABOULOUS!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just downloaded the trial version of Dungeon Seige. Its too cool! I love it so much that I had to buy the full version! Its even better that I expected!!! I fully recommend that the whole world get this game!!! I'm not that much into gaming. I thought that the Sims were the end, but when I found this, well, my mind changed very fast! I could'nt give this game enough kudos!!!

Gorgeous-looking, simple and accessible.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... Dungeon Siege is that gorgeous, curvaceous, friendly, but empty-headed blonde(or should I say, redhead?) from your neighborhood. And even though you really love to discuss latest developments in rocket science with your Ph.D. colleagues, now and then you still might wanna call that pretty girl and take her out to a nightclub for some mindless fun. If you are all rocket science, and don't [money] at a game store. If you expect Baldur's Gate 75, a quick trip to official website will quickly tell you that you should look elsewhere - so please do not knock this game for what it never pretended to be. As ... games go, DS delivers 100%.
This out of the way, Dungeon Siege IS absolutely great-looking. You'll need some good silicon to squeeze the most of it (My 1.2GHz Athlon, 512MB DDR, GeForce2 Ultra is more than up to the task) Sound is great too.
What I REALLY love is character-development system. In this game it's very hard to find yourself stuck with something you don't really enjoy. Especially in early game, characters are flexible enough to adapt to your style. If you want to make Gloern a combat mage, and Merik an archer, all you need is a little effort.
Combat system is also a treat. If you feel confident, you can set attack modes, and send your party into carnage while you go fix a sandwich. Or you can micromanage by pausing, and ordering precisely every cast, swing, and arrow if the battle is tough.
To recap: If you want a game that looks and feels good, has simple gameplay, and just allows you to relax, give Dungeon siege a try.

Very nice game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! it has HUGE maps and you only have to load the whole thing once then you never have to see a loading screen again. This game has lots of armor, weapons, and spells. This is a GREAT game for anyone going from a newbie to RPGs to the most experienced RPGer out there. This game is definatly a great buy. Everyone should have one of these in there homes. The multiplayer is also sweet becuase you can hook up with your friends or enemys. you can either go PvP (player vs. player) or Teams. This is no waste of money!

A wonderful change of pace.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the demo version of the game, and played it through. I LOVE it. I fully intend upon buying it. It has wonderful graphics, and lots of options normally unheard of. Like....you have a character that is a fighter.....you can get a spellbook, fill it with spells, and BAM....you are now a mage. No penalties, and you can always switch back. Not only that, but you can work multiple skills at different times in order to raise your stats, and you don't get slapped with a penalty for switching back and forth. Items and spells normally have to be found, you aren't handed them on a silver platter, and your health and mana regenerate naturally....which is great. And the real time AI of the monsters are very challenging, and if they aren't....bump up the difficulty and there you go!!

I'm very impressed. After EverQuest, DAoC, Asheron's Call, BG2 and all of it's clones, and Diablo 2....this game is a BREATH OF FRESH AIR.

Now if only NeverWinter Nights would hurry up and come out....LOL!!

Just another hack and slash.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After waiting over 2 years for this title, I was hoping for more than a typical hack and slash. If you like Diablo-isk games where you do nothing more than run around and hack at monsters, then this is the game for you. Personally, I enjoy a game with a little more sustenance and depth...I don't know even know if I'll bother to finish this disappointment. The only saving grace is that the graphics are nice, however the transparancy actually gets in the way as you rotate your view. I actually started getting motion sickness after playing for a half-hour, and I'm a TFC / Unreal / Quake veteran. Bottom line: save your money for a rainy day.

Reminiscent of UO and Diablo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After a while, game players start seeing some similar things in every game of the same genre. So yes, this game resembles all those 3D RPGs including UO and EQ and Camelot, etc.. And yes, it could have been a 3D sequel of Diablo. However, I tried Diablo I and II for about 1 hr each...could not get into it and left the game, gave it away, I didn't even want to keep it.

But after 7 hrs of Dungeon Seige, I'm still wanting more! I like the interface, and the fact that it seems to play itself is one detail I don't have to worry about. I control my characters to get them in and out of harms way. Everything else is mostly automatic, including targeting, moving to get closer to enemies, attacking, even magic casting if you have that set as the default action for your char.

The skill levels increase just like in UO. Keep using your melee weapon, and your Strength and melee skill increases faster than the other attributes. Use magic, and your Intelligence and magic skill increases. Behind the scenes, it might be using the traditional "kill monster A, get 100 exp" but for the user, this is not shown. It's different from the "get 1000 exp, increase to Lvl 2 and add extra 10 pts to your attributes" method. However, this is the what makes UO and this game interesting. You can have a warrior that dabbles in magic, and if you get high levels in every skill, your tank mage will be quite defender of justice.

Some positives that stand out for me are the pack mule which can be in your party and carry extra loot. And it won't run into a pack of monsters (as if it could survive) like in UO. The party interface is good also, like Secret of Mana where you can set your extra members on some AI setting so they'll be on defense, aggressive, use melee or magic attacks, etc.

Some negatives about this game that stand out for me is that you can't tell why your character that just dropped is dead or simply unconscious (and will get up again). You'll go unconscious so often, you almost wonder when you actually can die. And then when it does happen, you wonder why this time it didn't just go unconscious because now you to reload if you can't ressurect yet.

Also you only can start out as human, even though you can get dwarven NPCs to join you later.

In the single player, the monsters never re-spawn so you do have to decide which skills you want to focus on. But don't worry if you decide you really need another skill set. You can take that same character into the multi-player mode, and whatever skills and possessions you get there can be brought back into the single-player mode.

You can reach up to beyond level 100 so this game will provide lots of game play time.

keeps crashing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is a nice game with not very detailed but overall beautiful graphics. This seems to be characteristic of Microsoft games from their flight simulators to RPG's - fuzzy/blurry textures that look beautiful if you move your chair back four or five feet from the monitor or squint your eyes. Also, this game keeps randomly crashing my computer for some reason. Worked with Microsoft tech support on it to no avail thus far. But the gameplay itself is fun and I like the lack of an artificial limit on what my character can do - if I use spells more I advance my magical skills - if I use my weapons I advance my hand-to-hand combat skill. I really like this feature a lot. I do wish that there were more spells but then again you can never have enough spells in a game as far as I am concerned. Finally, the music is very nice and not boringly repedetive like some games out there. Overall I recommend buying this game.

Dungeon Siege

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

An exciting game but the story goes Dungeon, Town, Dungeon in My opinion it should have some side parts like a arena for you to fight in like gladiators and earn money. It has a complex weaponery thing were you have to reach a certain level in Strength, Dexcisity, and knowledge to use certain weapons. It has many weapons and cool looking armour and shields but i still think the game can be boring if you play long enough.

Good graphics but boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics, but I expected the fighting sequences to be more exciting. It reminds me of Gauntlet Legends in where you keep killing horde after horde of monsters. It got very boring after a while. The graphics are great, but I don't recommend buying it.

Awesome game........but few annoying bugs prevents it from 5

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Continuing in the tradition of Baldur's gate 3/4 perspective style RPG's, Dungeon Siege delivers with beautiful graphics and an non-stop action. As the title suggests....its one siege after another. So if you like Fantasy Styled RPG's but with alot of combat and action this game fits that mold. The only sore point is a nasty save bug where the game crashes everytime I go to save. I am sure there will be updated patches on their website. All in all, a great game.

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