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Over-rated and not as fun as the original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of the original Dungeon Siege. I remember downloading the demo and getting sucked in right away. The demo allowed users to play the beginning of the game and was easy enough to understand.

Given the fun I had playing Dungeon Siege 1, I eagerly anticipated the second installment. The trailer they released long before the game came out only made me more excited. The graphics looked AWESOME and were supposedly from the actual game (not cinematic creations). Shortly before release I was checking out features on the website and was still looking forward to seeing improvements from DS1. It looked cool - the new "pet" thing and I hoped they fixed the problem of your mule/party members getting lost. So I got the game, installed it and I'm sad to report I've just uninstalled it. Here's why:

First, the graphics SUCK. I don't know what's going on here. I have a brand new computer with an Nvidia Geforce 6800 graphics card but the game looks like crap to me (and I've turned the graphics options up to the max). This isn't the game from the trailer at all. The graphics look far worse than DS1 and I feel like im playing a game from 1990, not 2005.

Graphics issues aside, this game just plain sucks. Who came up with this stupid respawn idea for a single-player game anyway? I kept getting killed within the first 10 minutes of the game, which is just annoying. Hello, let us learn the interface (which seems more complex and annoying than DS1) before you overwhelm us with the "impressive" AI. I think I tried to play this game 3x before I just gave up, having never gotten past 15 mins of it. The magic of DS1 just seems to have disapeared. I had no fun in playing the first 15 mins and was just increasingly more annoyed the more I tried to enjoy it.

Save your money and invest in the original if you don't have it or just buy another game.

Don't believe 'em

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A veteran of the old Dungeon Siege, I was depressed because we had Win98 when this game was out and it won't work under Windows 98.

For a number of reasons, when we reinstalled Windows on my wife's computer, we tried Windows 2000. Just curious, we tried installing Dungeon Siege II. ***It works under Windows 2000, people!*** Nothing of the virus known as Windows XP has ever touched our computers.

It looks and plays beautifully on an AMD Athlon 1333, with a 128 MB GEForce 5200FX, running the latest drivers from March 2006 and DirectX 9.0c.

Is it really fun? Haven't seen enough to tell, but it looks pretty amazing. If you want Baldur's Gate, go elsewhere. If you want a beautiful looking hack-n-slash game, play this. I'm a fan of not only Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights-type games, but also of Severance: Blade of Darkness and Enclave (never could get into Diablo II because of the retarded save feature).

Dying in the first 15 minutes? Um, no. None of our party members were anywhere close. Do the trainer, get stuff like health potions, and think about what you're doing.

Dungeon Siege II

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and the game play were better in previous game. This one can get boring quickly. I stopped playing it with out finishing it.

If you have a high end graphics card - this is not for you.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is not a great sequal. It suffers from featureitis and not for the better. The graphics are aweful (this is directly a result of the game not even understanding what a 7900GT is), the sounds still get positioned wrong (this existed even in the first Dungeon Siege games), and the controls really are lacking a bit.

The people who have complained about the game not understanding newer hardware are justified. The game does NOT understand ANY 7000 series nVidia cards, or any of the newer ATI. It simply is not written into the config files.

Those who claim that it works fine with their newer hardware, simply do not know that the game is running in software mode for them, and is actually much more worse than they could be getting.

The developers in their endless laziness have not bothered to make the game run at max ability with "unknown" newer hardware. Trying to pry a patch out of them for it, is not likely either.

I would suggest any buyers who have newer equipment that came out AFTER 2005, to NOT buy this game, as they will be disappointed with the serious bad performance.

On my 7900GT with 512mb vram, 3ghz AMD dual core, 2gb ram, X-Fi sound, and raid SATA hard drives... this game _should_ fly in blazing fluidity. Instead, it hurks, it jerks, it stutters, and it flutters... its appalling and disgusting. The game actually runs better on my old old ATI 9800 pro 2ghz machine, and an old IDE drive. Pathetic. It was a waste of my money.

Make an informed purchase.

Cool game, but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's great in concept, but the class system is lacking big time.

Quite splendid

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, so this game is totally a cross between Neverwinter Nights and Diablo (or similar), but hey. I liked both of those games quite a bit, so I'm pretty happy with the game overall. The only thing that would have improved some of the quests is information availability. For example, some of the side quests are very difficult to flow through and there aren't little nuggets of information stored in, say, books or conversations that I could piece together. Really this was only two quests, and they aren't major, so it wasn't a big deal.

Users should know what kind of game this is. For those seeking to buy it as a gift, here's a quick rundown of what age groups you should consider.

There is violence and blood in the game, but it is very minor and the way the game is, visually, doesn't reflect realistic gore and destruction. It is quite engaging and requires a player that will want to read, figure out tasks, and generally follow a story line. If the person is looking for something that is a no-brainer, this game might tax their patience. Very long game play for the money and a lot of additional side quests to occupy them further. Personally, not being a parent and figuring that kids age 12 and up are already used to such things, I think this game is fine for teenagers and probably even younger. My little bro would have a ball playing this, and he's 12. Some parents, however, prefer to keep this type of exposure to a minimum and should consider that there IS violence and some gore.

Great game and well worth the price. I'm particularly fond of the fact that MS allows you to play the game if your My Documents folder exists on a network. Heroes of Might and Magic 5 blames MS for being unable to play the game in this way, so it was nice to see that DS2 worked just fine under these conditions.

DS 2--Dungeon Siege under siege

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I find this game great, but slow running and a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time in installing, not including a number of patches, as well. Game play is great, but the mapping leaves alot to be desired. The 360 camera turning is a pain as well. The clues that one gets to find 'treasure' or quests are sometimes extremely hard to figure out. There are still a few bugs to give one pause in playing this game: Doors that don't open, quest items that aren't there, enemies that don't attack or are stuck in the walls or trees, etc.

Otherwise, it is a nice game with fair graphics. The engine is getting old and I feel that it should of had better graphics and an updated engine for the price.

Classic dungeon crawl

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game makes no pretence at being anything other than what it is--a classic dungeon crawl. Yes, the lengthy dialogs that drive the story line can get a bit tedious at times, and yes, sometimes the number of mobs that must be dispatched seems gratuitous, but if you like hack-and-slash, this is the game for you.

A GREAT GAME...BUT ONE SNAG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game, beat it over Christmas Break. Great game play great stuff etc etc etc. However I am disappointed that after you've beaten it, the quest items in Veteran and Elite are the same as Mercenary. The least they could've done is made the quest items better. But, buy it. If you played DS1, you'll love this game. Even if you didn't play the orginal, you'll love it.

Dungeon Siege 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great...game is exciting and runs very smooth.

The only bad point of this game is that you can not save at any time and start at the same location.

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