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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: 2K Games
EAN: 0710425219795
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: 2K Games
Manufacturer: 2K Games
Packaged Height: 130 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 740 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: 2K Games
Release Date: 2006-08-01
Studio: 2K Games
Feature:
- Take-Two
- Dungeon Siege II PC
Product Description:
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World is intense role-playing that expands on the unique gameplay and action of the first two hits. At the end of Dungeon Siege II, warlord Vardis was defeated and the world began to fall apart. Gigantic cracks have appeared throughout the country, and lands green with life are now empty brown wastelands. Many see you as the reason for this destruction. A year later, new monsters appear in the countryside -- patchwork creatures who seem to be made from pieces of several beasts. To clear your name and improve your reputation, you decide to head into the shattered lands and find the source of these new monsters.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 ANOTHER BOTCHED SEQUEL's EXPANSION..., 2008-09-17
When the original game is a groundbreaking masterpiece, its sequel rarely lives up to the unavoidable hype. There are notable exceptions of course (BALDUR's GATE II and MAX PAYNE II spring to mind). However, NEVER had I been so DISAPPOINTED with a sequel more than DUNGEON SIEGE II!
Following the innovative and brilliant original DS, the anticipation was so great that minor flaws would be forgiven. With DS2, though, it was one big blunder after another.
Contrary to the original DS (for which one had to physically tear himself from the computer screen) this one is a boring chore. Running back and forth to the base camp to barter equipement is a tedious procedure with all the fun sucked out of it. Moreover, no matter how much you improve your character (either leveling up or equipment-wise), your enemies simply match your abilities (or resort to crowding) resulting in NO CHANGE in the gameplay. I am not talking new enemies, but aren't higher leveled characters supposed to easily wipe out enemies encountered many hours before? This way, the whole game is nothing but a even-leveled blandness.
On a similar note: why was it necessary for **minor** enemies to have so much life? I was bored out of my skin hacking and slashing FOREVER! Increase the damage they can cause and keep it interesting - do not give them a longer life only to artificially increase the game's duration!
Oh, and the enchanting system was a joke - since the items found were much better than anything one could pay to have forged.
Graphically, DS2 is not even one step higher than the original DS. Shadows and particles may have increased, but characters (and equipment) have not. As a result, the heat of the battle (even on high-end systems) will find you in the midst of a disorienting...blur.
This is the...unavoidable expansion. It does not offer much more than a short campaign and some new trinkets. Importing your character from DS2 is a much better idea than choosing one of the badly-balanced pre-created ones - only...a persisting bug will not allow it!
This was the chronicle of a botched job foretold. With the exception of OBLIVION (which was an excellent game), one can count on 2K GAMES to...ruin any game franchise and kill its successful progress once and for all. Gaming history is littered with the relics of their failures: STRONGHOLD II, CIVILIZATION 4 (not until its expansion did this one became a playable game), SID MEIER's RAILROADS - the list is endless...They should probably stick to consoles.
My advice: avoid this stinker and, instead, try the original DUNGEON SIEGE (and its expansion). It is a MUCH BETTER GAME!
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