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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  290 reviews
Sales Rank: 5162
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 2
MPN: F80-00065
Model: F80-00065
UPC: 659556727628
EAN: 0659556727628
ASIN: B00005KBRD
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: CDs are in great shape minor scratches on play disc that do not affect playability. This is the 2 CDROMs and a blank jewel case only. FREE UPGRADE to expedited shipping!
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Product Description
Plunges players into a gigantic, continuous 3D fantasy world where they adventure to discover what evil has befallen the land. Start with a single character, then travel through the world, gathering a party of up to 10 different characters.
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 dungeon siege July 23, 2008
Michael B. Wilson (georgia)
the game is great its action are a-1 the battle system is very good the characters are a-1 i will recomend ths game to anyone who likes rpg or someone who is new to rpg games is easy to learn even if you dont have alot of experence with rpg games on the pc top rated game from top to bottom. michael wilson
Never liked a game more. July 4, 2008
KroolShooz
This game is six 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.
(BTW, for anyone who would still consider buying a game this old: there's no need to buy DS anymore, as the expansion Legends of Aranna includes the original DS as well as the expansion. So don't get DS, and don't get DS II, get Legends of Aranna. Anyway...)
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. If you bet a nickel that right-clicking on something will accomplish goal A, you'll make a nickel every time.
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.)
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 liked 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! January 11, 2008
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in Orbit)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 (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!
You will enjoy it more than most latest games!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Great Adventure Game December 31, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought that Dungeon Siege was an excellent game. I am by no means a first person shooter player & prefer games that have a little strategy & thought required. Although this game is linear, meaning you follow a certain path to conclusion & can't deviate away from it (very much any ways) you do have to do a little creative thinking when it comes to launching your attacks on various enemies. (some can be quite tricky) The story was entertaining, the graphics were great, and it held my attention beautifully. No ADD issues with this game!! Would recommend this game to anyone that wants to play a fantasy/adventure without all the running around with just a gun on the screen shooting anything you see.
 A game that provides you a different experience. October 2, 2007
Paul
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didn't realize Dungeon Siege was a good game until a few years after I played it. It begin to dawn upon me that I did have a few unique and different experience with Dungeon Siege than I have with other average RPG games. I ignored those experience and concluded that the game wasn't good enough, but then I now know that it does have the some unique characteristics and differences. As for how entertaining the game was, I'd say that at first the game is BORING. If you're playing a single playing mode of kingdom of Ehb you start out as a farmer with very little equipment. You'll start fighting these annoying Krugs who don't seem like the worthy opponents as well as the mosquito bugs that annoyingly flies around you. But as you progress through the game you might find yourself addicted to it. The various types of armors, weapons, and magic will become your major incentive in the game. You'll travel around the world hacking and slashing your opponents to gather gold, and sometimes you go beneath the dungeons to find a few treasures so you would have enough money to buy items. The traveling is another part of the addiction. As you travel around, you'll be curious enough to ask yourself what kind of items do merchants sell in the next town. Since you already have what you need from the current town you would want to go to the next to get more. Another incentive in this game is the exploration. The Peninsula map in Dungeon siege for example is HUGE. I played at least 24 hours total (If I can correctly recall), and I'm still around lvl 33, and I haven't even explored the world completely. I probably only traveled probably around 1/3 of the world. Again you'll probably be curious enough to ask yourself if there are other parts of the world that'll catch your interest. The only uniqueness and differences I found within the game are obviously these: 1) There's absolutely no loading when you travel around the world 2) Your character naturally chooses his own class and increases his attributes/skills based on what weapons (or magic) he uses. 3) The party adds up the fun of the game, traveling alone makes it much more difficult for your character 4)The Siege tools are unique part of Dungeon Siege, I never used them but you can learn them yourself or from Siege University.5) You can download MODS or worlds such as a DS version of Ultima V, you can have fun with those. 6) Traveling can be fun out of curiosity, the journey seems endless. 7) You can use pack mules to carry your equipments 8) you're character's status changes as he develops such as a Page, Squire, and Knight, and then Legionary. I personally found that creative.
The graphic of this game is outdated but it is still adjustable like other games. Nevertheless you'll still find yourself amazed by some of the scenes of the environment you interact with. The sound quality wasn't great in my opinion. I thought the hack/slash sound didn't sound realistic, and the enemies crying out after they die sounded retarded. The music however is well done, it fits very well in certain scenes of the game. Sometimes you'll get a feeling from the music.
The Multiplayer Mode is interesting. I haven't played it as much as I wanted to but all I can say is that I encountered a few interesting things. You can load up a mod you downloaded for both you and your friends to play in. It doesn't have to be one mod, which is a single-playing map, it can also be other mods as well. After you are finished playing the game the result status will show how many enemies you killed, how much you leveled up, how many dungeons you discovered, and ect. The statistics are interesting, which is one thing I like about the multiplayer mode. Playing with your friends is something I didn't do, but I can imagine that it would be fun traveling in a vast world with yoru friends.
The only flaws I found in this game is that the game can get repetitive. No matter who you slew down you feel like it's the same enemy. The hack and slash can get annoying, there's really no reason in doing this except getting some money. The game can get old pretty quickly, but for me sometimes I just want to go back to the game. Another flaw is the lack of side-quest. There aren't enough quest to keep you interested, thus the game does get boring because of that. Sometimes you can get lost in the world if you don't know how to properly use your map. There are even times that no matter how much you properly used the map you still can't find an exit. This makes the game challenging but it also makes it annoying at times, it shows that the map can be confusing.
I'm pretty sure there are more to say, but I want to go straight to the point. This game did give me a different experience, If you give this game a chance for a while you'll find yourself addicted to it. Depending on who you are this game either gets old quickly or you'll still find yourself enjoying this game. So do I recommend this game? Yes I do, this game is different from other games, it's not the best game out there but it definitely provides you something different that other games do not have. I already listed the things that this game has, but there are probably more. If you wish to know what I'm trying to say, play the game.
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