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Great Expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The most important thing about this "expansion" is that it includes the original full version of Dungeon Siege and together for a lower price than the standalone version of Dungeon Siege when it was first released. So if you're a RPG fan and haven't tried this yet, now is a good time. Dungeon Siege 2 is a few months down the road. The expansion pack allows any or all of your "heroes" to carry a "backpack" now that permits you to carry even more items than before. Another beast similar to the packmule can carry additional stuff for you as before, but can fight and defend itself like a regular character. There are more items to find and use as well as more new and old enemies to fight and new places to explore. One gripe I have is some items are hard to find in the areas with vegetation. Another problem is when your heroes are fighting. They tend to take the initiative and fight head on but you may need to keep their inventory windows open to manage their health and mana potions to make sure they have enough until they defeat the enemy. This can get confusing. However, these are really trivial when compared to the fun of embarking on a "Lord of the Rings"-like quest with your virtual heroes.

Great expansion to the original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you've played the first game, you'll want to get this. It is basically the same idea, but in a different place. They have made some changes, such as all available people to hire are free, and a new thing called sets, which when you combine the 3-5 different items, they give you special powers.

Graphics awesome. Too repetative after first 10 hours.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I can't seem to get enough of the graphics for this game. I tried playing Diablo II the other day for 'old time sake', and just gave up after trying to rotate the game map for the umpteenth time.

I enjoy the character developement of this game, but it's most interesting in the first 10 hours of play. Maybe it's just me, but there is something cool about having to scrimp and save for your first cool weapon or armour. Once the crates and boxes start spewing out 5-6 magic items, however, the specialness of your current items are minimized. I think I would like the game better if there were less treasure, and you had to work harder for the really cool stuff that you do find.

I think that the whole resurrection thing is for wimps too. How hard is it to restart your game if you blow it and need to start back one or two levels? If it even exists, it should be a higher level spell than 'spark' or 'healing wind'.

Lastly, the game is far too linear. NWN had a fairly decent plot line, with different path options. Not sure why they couldn't have done the same with DSLOR. This could be such a kick (...) game, instead it's just slightly above average.

It improved where?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed playing Dungeon Siege. I really did. So when the expansion pack came out, I thought, "Wow! New cool places to go and new cool things to do!" I saved my money, bought the game, downloaded it, and started playing.

At first, there wasn't much new. Then, later, there still wasn't much new. It was way too easy to kill the bad guys (even on the hard setting). Also, while there were a bunch of new items, they really didn't contribute much to the gaming experience. Some of them did look rather cool, but that was about it.

If you like good old hack-and-slash games and haven't gotten the original Dungeon Siege yet, this is a good way to go, considering that it also includes the full version of the original game. However, if you've already played through Dungeon Siege I and liked it, my advice is to get Dungeon Siege II instead. Way more game for your buck.

Have a great day.

Mindless hacking

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Like other reviewers here, I enjoyed the original DS. The visuals and the (admittedly thin but still fun) story line kept things going nicely. This expansion, however, seems to have expanded on the stupid parts of the game (endless hack and slash til you want to puke), and made the story line and character development weaker than the original. My vote would be: keep the great visuals and puzzles but give us a real story line. Give us only 6 gazillion monsters to kill instead of 100 million gazillion, and make it interesting for heaven's sake.

Beautiful,but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...it's just one long trek,albeit through a lot of pretty scenery.The game is extremely easy to play,and it does get repetitious after the 1000th monster is killed.The reason I stick with it?Frankly,it's to see what sort of landscape I will find myself in..the graphics and music are very lovely,but the game is boring.After you get your parties stats up to a reasonable level,they set upon the enemies they encounter,and you are just basically watching.I felt the same way about the first DS,but I stuck with it for the same reasons I mentioned here.I think the monsters are quite interesting,and the bosses are ,as well..but everything is so easy to kill!!I do believe the games creators have tried very hard to give us a beautiful,huge and interesting game to play,but there really is no adventure involved:it's one battle after another.I wish I could give it 5 stars.

graphics good, but not enjoyable

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i finished the game in 3 days.it was ok in my first day but after that i realized the reality.This game is a repetition.it goes all same only the creatures changes and their power level.Not enough for a good role playing game cause what u do is just to click on creatures until they die and nothing else.The dialogs between you and others are very unnecessary because the chapters of the game is always goes as a repetition of the previous chapters.
its not a rpg game, its just keeps u as a killing machine and nothing else.....like in Diablo series.
But afterall i must say the graphics are really good and camera control is well enough.

Pretty and boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dungeon Siege: LoA is a standalone sequel to Microsoft's popular crawler. It includes both LoA and the original for a very low price that is more than reasonable. By itself, LoA utilizes the same beautiful graphics engine made popular in the first game with some 'useful' additions. The inclusion of set items, imbued items, and individual spell hotkeys greatly enhance play over the original, but the 'enhanced' AI actually takes away from the gameplay. Now when one person in your party gets attacked, the entire party will follow. Great for defending mules, bad when you want to keep formation.
It's entirely possible to now play nearly the entire game on autopilot; the only interaction between the player and the game world being recruiting more party members or picking up your loot.

As far as Dungeon Crawlers go, this one is somehow lacking. The story is immensly weak, and as such, leaves little incentive to finish the game. Multiplayer is much the same, with the tedium broken by the incursion of special online maps and, of course, people to play with.

LoA's saving grace, however, is its ability to be easily modded. There are some exquisite mods that can be downloaded that cater to the single player and the multi-player alike. Had Gas-powered Games not included this feature, odds are Dungeon Siege wouldn't have lasted to see this sequel.

If you have and enjoy Dungeon Siege, you have to ask yourself if the relatively useless set items and new item mods are worth sinking in your hard-earned money to the game. If you are new to the series, at least this game includes the original so you'll be getting two campaigns that will provide a few hours of playtime. Just make sure to check out some fan-site and pick yourself up a good mod to further your investment.

Good, but the hack and slash gets old

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed the original but just can't get throught the expansion. I spend more time at the merchant trying to figure out what my party should wear and use than actually playing the game. The game engine is good as well as the graphics but without any puzzles or problems to solve it gets tedious. How many treasure filled pots can you put on a board anyway?

Underground monotony

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Boring. That's the best description I can come up with. Let's walk through a hole in the ground killing everything we see. Game play is far too linear. No real choice about quests or where you can go. No choice of character type (race, class, etc.).

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