Dungeon Siege
Bought the Dungeon Siege box a while back. Played Dungeon siege 1 and 2 before but I'm not sure whether I finished either of them.
Thought I'd start with Dungeon siege one to get a reminder of the storyline and see if it could still be recommended after all these years. At a time when Diablo clones were prevalent, Dungeon siege was different, in that you can have a party of up to six members.
The plot isn't really the strong point. You are a lowly farmer and creatures that have not attacked humans for a long time suddenly start to. For the next few hours you are going to try find out who or what is behind it and why.
At the beginning you start out with strength, dexterity and intelligence at 10. Strength mainly effects your hit points, dexterity your armor and intelligence your mana. You also have the 4 skills below which increase with use. Melee and range skills effect your accuracy with weapons whereas increasing your magic skills effect the spells you use e.g make them last longer, do more damage or heal for more. You can also not use certain spells until you reach the necessary level.
I found that at the beginning (when you don't have others to absorb damage) you really need to increase your hp so did a bit of melee fighting before focusing more on combat magic.
As it's such an old game the graphics aren't great but it's generally easy to follow the action and things don't often get overly cluttered. It's very much an action- rpg so there is not much in the way of dialogue, although in towns you are given a few quests and told a bit about what is happening in the world around you. The pace is pretty frenetic and you will be spending a lot of time clicking on health potions- especially when you don't have a healer or 2. Naturally it's not just your spells and stats that will be improving but you will be picking up hundreds of pieces of equipment that you may or may not be able to use right away- most come with restrictions in terms of strength, dexterity and.or intelligence needed to equip them.
If you enjoy hacking and slahing and zapping and fireshotting your way through hordes of enemies and you find Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age too focussed on dialogue then this might by a game to kill a few hours on.
Rating- 5.5/10
Value for money- tough to say as it's supposedly a free part of the dungeon siege box.
The plot isn't really the strong point. You are a lowly farmer and creatures that have not attacked humans for a long time suddenly start to. For the next few hours you are going to try find out who or what is behind it and why.
At the beginning you start out with strength, dexterity and intelligence at 10. Strength mainly effects your hit points, dexterity your armor and intelligence your mana. You also have the 4 skills below which increase with use. Melee and range skills effect your accuracy with weapons whereas increasing your magic skills effect the spells you use e.g make them last longer, do more damage or heal for more. You can also not use certain spells until you reach the necessary level.
I found that at the beginning (when you don't have others to absorb damage) you really need to increase your hp so did a bit of melee fighting before focusing more on combat magic.
As it's such an old game the graphics aren't great but it's generally easy to follow the action and things don't often get overly cluttered. It's very much an action- rpg so there is not much in the way of dialogue, although in towns you are given a few quests and told a bit about what is happening in the world around you. The pace is pretty frenetic and you will be spending a lot of time clicking on health potions- especially when you don't have a healer or 2. Naturally it's not just your spells and stats that will be improving but you will be picking up hundreds of pieces of equipment that you may or may not be able to use right away- most come with restrictions in terms of strength, dexterity and.or intelligence needed to equip them.
If you enjoy hacking and slahing and zapping and fireshotting your way through hordes of enemies and you find Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age too focussed on dialogue then this might by a game to kill a few hours on.
Rating- 5.5/10
Value for money- tough to say as it's supposedly a free part of the dungeon siege box.
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