You create your own character by choosing a gender, picking from one of the four races in the game (human, dryad, elf, and half-giant), and then customizing your basic appearance. You'll play as a mercenary for hire caught up in events beyond your control. In Dungeon Siege II, you'll travel back to the fantasy world of Aranna for a whole new adventure set in a different era from the original. It's almost time to go back to Aranna and kill lots and lots of monsters.
Yes, that's a bit nebulous, but we'll try to explain.
We got our hands on some early code to see how the game is shaping up, and for what it's worth, so far it feels like a bigger and better Dungeon Siege. Well, with Dungeon Siege II on schedule for a release this summer, the big question is whether the Dungeon Siege formula has changed in any way. But the second group felt that the game was too automated and linear for its own good, leaving little for the player to do other than just point and click. The first group loved Dungeon Siege for its ambitious attempt to make a Diablo-style, 3D hack-and-slash game that was fun and easy to play. Gamers tend to fall into two camps when it comes to Dungeon Siege, the 2002 action role-playing game from Microsoft and developer Gas Powered Games.
