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Summary: Don't buy if you have an AMD chip!
Review: I got this game for my brother, who installed it on an AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz system. The game INVARIABLY causes the computer to hang. Tech "support" says that this "should" only happen with VIA chipsets, however, I know that my brother's is a SiS chipset. Further, tech "support" suggests that the best fix for this problem is to upgrade the BIOS (prompting most people to require a NEW COMPUTER--Flashing the bios is not a solution!)This game is a totally useless waste of money, and I am going to try and return it to office depot, regardless of their open software policy. DON'Y BUY IF YOU HAVE AN AMD CHIP!
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Summary: So disappointing
Review: The fact that this is a Microsoft product says it all - it's a memory-hogging game with a ton of "ease of use features" that just serve to make it bland and boring. Oh yeah - it also crashes if you go too far off the beaten path.If you want to watch a demo of nice technology that needs a little interaction from you, this is the game for you. Heck it even fights battles on your behalf. But if you want a fun game, get anything else.
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Summary: Not what I was hoping for.....
Review: So, this is Microsoft's answer to Diablo? They need to stick to making Operating Systems and leave the games to the big boys. What this game needed was the graphically enhanced world it currently has mixed with the excellent game play that was present in Diablo II. Unlike Diablo, I have no desire to continue playing after I have beaten it. I was looking at a map of the world and it falls completely short of giving this game any longevity to the game play. Over all, the only really great thing about this game is the Graphics. The multiplayer version is so bad, I won't bother commenting on it.
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Summary: A Hallway to Boredom
Review: Boring! Imagine an impossibly long hallway populated with bad guys, doors on either side that have more of the same bad guys. That's what playing this game is like. You have one path to follow (regardless of the scenery change) and every few feet you fight a monster. As long as you load up on health potions (say, half your inventory), you can easily beat this game in a few hours. The fact that you can choose your character's appearance is cool, until you start equipping him/her and the appearance changes with the new armor/weapons/shields anyway. If I knew what this game was going to be like, I wouldn't have bought it. Caveat emptor.
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Summary: DS is better than Diablo 2
Review: This is a good hack-n-slash game that is slightly better than Diablo 2. Howvever it is not as long a campiagn as Diablo 2. would recommend this to anyone that likes Diable 2.
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Summary: Mules Rule!
Review: Microsoft has doen a great job with this game making it easy to pick up and hard to put down! One of the best things about the game is watching your pack mule fight! Judo Kick!
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Summary: It's Unbelievable
Review: The first time I heard of Dungeon Siege I thought, I just gotta have that. So I saved up my money and I bought it. I played it for hours each day, and I thought it was ubelievable(although I died a few times). Then I got the hang of it and, finally, I beat it. I'm not saying it's a quick game, because it isn't. It took me a long time to beat it and even my SISTER and my MOM liked it. All I'm saying is that I recomend it, unless you don't like RPG's or fighting.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: Dungeon Siege is an astounding piece of work. Every aspect, from graphics to game flow to character development, is fluid. As noted before in other reviews, there are quite a few new ideas that were implemented and work beautifully. A fully continuous world where going from outside to inside back outside again is one smooth action. Inventory shuffling helps immensely, and even allows for inventory to be reshuffled at will. I never experienced any lag or stuttering of camera angles (probably because my machine is amply equipped, unlike the other reviewers here). The fact that combat commands and tendencies can be planned and set BEFORE combat (the preferred method in REAL LIFE) allows for your party to react competently when you, the player, cannot. Statistics go up as they are used. Know what that means? If your Strength is improving, Strength is what goes up (not "well I'd rather my Dex went up".) Doesn't work that way, now does it? Want Dex to go up? Try developing it. The only thing I would have liked to have seen added is an option to "attack furthest target" to make better use of archery. By the way, Diablo II is not an RPG...there is no role-playing aspect to it. It might as well be labeled as a fighter game.
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Summary: Dungeon Siege - The Diablo 2 killer? Or Not?
Review: Dungeon Siege is a very good game.
Great graphics, fast action and nice story.
Very good work on the user interface, and features first time seen like automatic reorganizing of your inventory..
Great idea of the mule as part of your team!
A game that was needed to refresh his category. So why the one star is missing? 1) Absence of a BIG map. Especially in some places a map would be a great help. 2) Nice idea that if you fight a lot you improve your Strength, but it would be better if the game would let you add the points in the skill that you would prefer.
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Summary: So tedious
Review: Did you like Diablo II? Good! Me too! Have you ever thought to yourself why you like it though? It never dawned on me that I was doing something so tedious before, but nonetheless I could play for hours on B.net and still have a sense of doing something new, even if I wasn't. Now, we have Dungeon Siege, who we've seen been hailed the "Diablo II" killer. Stop holding your breath, everyone is wrong. Dungeon Siege is Diablo II for people who have a hard time with RPGs. The game starts out nicely and leaves you with quite high hopes of "Wow, geez, this sure is great, I think I like this." A horrible story starts us off as "a farmboy must save the world." Oh, great. So you pick up a weapon and for the most part, that is the game. You character "molds" to the weapons. You never get to select what you want to become better in next, it just happens, and unlike Diablo II when it "happens" there's nothing exciting. Yay, I can use the weapon exactly like it but deals slightly more damage now. Completely underwhelming. You're removed from your character. Maybe that's for the better, because soon your party grows to 8 members. Basically all that means is there are more members you have to supply with weapons and armor, again leaving you with a feeling that the game is playing you. The gameplay is tedious monotonous and almost completely non-existant. If you thought the battle system in Diablo II was easy, just wait for this. You select how your characters want to attack and you don't even have to touch the enemy in most cases - your guys will do that for you! How cool! Wait, so what does that leave you to do? Well, as you're hacking through dungeon after dugeon (or landscape) you periodically must pick up mana and health potions and when your characters are in need press "M" or "H", whichever you need. Of cousre you must also move you characters forward from time to time. Don't worry, you can't get lost, as every passage leads to the right one. So, what has the "legendary" Chris Taylor accomplished? Well, what he wished, an RPG that anyone could play. He manages to completely remove you from any sense of being involved in the game and instead simply puts you in a seat of a 30 hour movie that sometimes you must click to enjoy. It does look quite pretty and once the cost goes down to around 10-20 dollars it will definetly be worth it for some of the screenshots of water falls. But even what the game does best (and that is the visual) it fails because of bad clipping on camera angles time to time that can kill your character or just make you stuck. It doesn't help that the pathfinding isn't too great either. Save your money and buy Freedom Force or some good stuff like that. I heard Neverwinter Nights is to die for, and Warcraft III is out too. Save your money and spend it on a game where you can actually be involved.
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