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If you liked Dungeon SIege, you are going to enjoy LOA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 27
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thourghly enjoyed Dungeon Siege. So when the expansion was announced, I as close to first in line to buy it as I could be. I was not disappointed with the game. There are two more character types that you can pick up in journey. The Backpack is a great addition to the inventory system. It allows you to expand the ability of your characters to carry more. There are a range of new and instersting monsters to fight. Mad Doc (the company that wrote the expansion) has obviously played a little bit of Diablo II as they have included the Set Items in for magical items. And they did so that the single player can actually complete a set (are you listening Blizzard ?) .All and all if you liked Dungeon Siege, you are going to like Legends of Aranna. And for the first timers, the full version of Dungeon Siege is included.

The biggest complaint that has been leveled at LOA is that it is more of the same. The point is that yes it is more of the same only improved. If you disliked Dungeon Siege, do not buy it. But if you beat Dungeon Siege and want more or are thinking about picking up Dungeon Siege to see what all the fuss is about, this is the product for you.

Now when is Dungeon Siege 2 coming out....

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.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the most time I've spent playing a game in years! Most games bore me almost immediately, but Dungeon Siege is one of my favorites.

I can't wait for DSII to come out!

Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna Expansion Pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks!!I cant beleive how huge it is.I have played this game for well over 60 hours and still have not completed it.

Much fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had never seen or heard of the game untill I saw my cousin playing it. I was instantly hooked and I wanted to play it for myself immediantly. The landscape is beautiful along with the other graphics in my opinion. I have heard people say that this game is a cheap rip off of Diablo, however I used to be a Diablo fan, and this game blows Diablo completly away. You can have a party of people instaind of going through the game alone. Purchase pack-animals for help when needing something to carry extra loot from battling monsters. This game never got boring from start to finish. And to this day I still want to play it.

Loads of fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First things first...the LoA expansion includes the original DS game, so even if you don't like the expansion (and I agree it's not as good as the original) so what? With LoA you get the original game, improved by the various interface and game play improvements that come with LoA. All that having been said, my review below focuses on original DS, as anyone who buys LoA at this late date is probably going to get it mainly for the original game.

DS/LoA is five years old, an eternity in the world of computer games, but I would rather load up my old DS disk and play an hour or two of this than any other game that I've played since.

One of the most common criticisms of this game is that it is too easy. That is absolutely correct. If you are a hardcore gamer who isn't happy unless you're pushed to the limits of your key-punching abilities, you'll hate this game. If you want your brain scrambled by mind-numbing puzzles, you'll hate this game.

Me, I push keys and scramble my brain all day at work. The last thing I want is to come home after a hard days work and face...more work. I want a non-challenging escape, and DS I is the best game I've ever found for delivering just that.

Here's why I love DS I:

It's beautiful. Proof that you don't need to fill the screen with eye-numbing detail to make a visually arresting game. (Wish they had understood this when they made the miserable DS II).

It's atmospheric. All of the many environments in the game are well done, each has a feel, the music is great, it draws you in.

It's intuitive. If you want a game that you don't need a manual for...this is it. If you think something is likely to work...chances are it will.

It's a game that doesn't revolve around mastering the interface. No need to repeat keystroke combinations ad infinitum until they are ingrained in muscle memory. You can play this with one hand on the mouse while sipping a daiquiri out of a coconut with the other. Really.

It's slick. Never had a hitch with this game. I'm no programmer, and my meager attempts at modding the game were very superficial, but it gave the feeling at least of having well-planned architecture and clean code.

It has simple charm out the wazoo. There's no way to describe or define this, it just is. (DS II, by the way, lacks charm to the same extent that DS I exudes it. LoA has less than DS but lots more than DS II.)

Sadly, after five years and the dismal failure of DS II, which sucked and alienated most of the DS community, a lot of the user-generated content that used to be available online has disappeared. Used to be there was a good score or two of complete user-generated campaigns you could download. Some were as good as the original and can still be found.

About half of computer games I dislike right from the start and give up on after half an hour. The other half I like for a while until their flaws finally get to me and I wind up hating them. Dungeonsiege is the ONLY game that I like now in retrospect, years after playing it, as much as I like it the first day I fired it up.

I have a dream...that some day the D&D franchise will be ripped from the cold dead hands of Atari and its genetic material mixed with that of Dungeonsiege I, resulting in the ultimate action-RPG.

AN EXCELLENT ACTION-cRPG PACK!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an action cRPG that came out after DIABLO II and just before NEVERWINTER NIGHTS. And it blew both of them out of the water!

Not as deep as NWN, yet the story engaged you enough to make it more than a hack'n'slash. Not as dark as DIABLO II, yet blood fever will take hold of you once in battle. A number of innovative ideas made DUNGEON SIEGE a unique experience: the cinematic perspective, the original characters (who thought up...machine-gun shooting medieval robots!), the fighting-back pack-mule...
At the same time, both the enemies' and your company members' AI is well above par.

Graphically, this is a 4 year game yet it plays much smoother and it has further horizons than most cRPGs today. Even if, to any true cRPG fun, graphics is not everything (otherwise DAWN OF MAGIC would have been considered a great game), DUNGEON SIEGE is found wanting in nothing when it comes to graphics. Not until TITAN QUEST got released could any cRPG hold a candle to DUNGEON SIEGE! Tress and grass move as you pass by, water ripples as you step into it and wakes as you walk through it. Everything worn or wielded appears on the character; whereas, magic spells are not shabby at all.

The game also sports a GREAT CAMERA PLACEMENT (zoom capable and totally customizable) and has one of the BEST SOUNDTRACKS - the theme music will stay with you as the appropriate theme for any epic battles in the future.

Those of you who were (rightfully) disappointed with the truly bad and much shorter DUNGEON SIEGE 2 (I still cannot fathom how they managed to botch that one!), keep in mind that it has only skin-deep similarities to its predecessor. This is the one to buy!

Combined with its expansion, this comes out...more expensive than buying them separately in jewel-cases - so, I would recommend shopping around first. Nevertheless, you will enjoy it more than most latest games!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

More of the same is a good thing...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the regular Dungeon Siege game, you will also like this expansion. (Note that the regular gamer is included here, which makes this a great purchase).

So why didn't I give it 5 starts? Well, there are a few things that could be done better. I found the story to be less involving than it was in the original (and it wasn't all that fascinating there either). In fact, I can't seem to grow attached to the characters. There just isn't much story and charm there. Also, the level design is good, but not quite as good as it was in the original game, it seems.

But overall, this is a very good game. Just like the original, it is very hard to stop playing as you move through a world that never stops or even pauses to load. Technically, this is one great game!

Some of the game mechanics are still much better than they are in competitor's games. I like being able to shoot a bow without worrying about the number of arrows I have (here, if you have a bow, you can shoot it). I also like the ability to keep reusing the same spell without having to rest. This game simply removes a number of frustrating gameplay elements, resulting in a lot more fun.

Overall, this is a great game. Not quite as awesome as the original when it came out (and that's a while ago... so maybe that's where the problem is). I can't wait for Dungeon Siege 2!

A great game on many levels

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: July 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok, first off, let me defuse a few misconceptions about DS: Many people find it boring because you just gather stuff and party members and walk up to creatures and let the computer take over. This is true, but only with the default settings. There is a control panel that lets you adjust this behavior in many ways. You can play it the default way or all-manual (very hard to do) or any number of ways in-between.

Now then, on to the bad: The UI can be hard to control. Whenever you are in a tight area, the camera wants to move into a safe position, so as soon as you move the mouse away from the edge of the screen, the camera "bobs up" to look down at your character(s). This can really throw off your ability to manage the character(s). Also, the excitement of doing something new is often tainted by the fact that it's a thin modification of the previous steps. I like the cut-scenes and the puzzles, I just wish there were more of them.

Ok, so the good: The AI players make life a lot easier, and once you get the hang of managing the AI's settings this game can be a joy. Also, there are tons of ways to play and strategies that you can use. The magic system alone lets you play the game in dozens of different ways. The weapons and armor are just complex enough (just a bit more than Diablo) to make you think about how you want to equip your characters. It's often a hard choice, and I like that in a video game.... your milage may vary. Creatures have various advantages and disadvantages over you, and you need to figure out each one to know how to attack. Overall, it's a very good game, but not one for people who just want to plow forward and finish in a few days (you could, but you would miss a lot and the game would not be as fun).

PS: This review is actually for the basic game, not the expansion, but I'm mostly responding to other points that people have made that are the same for either or both.

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