{"id":1831,"date":"2016-11-07T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playlab.uta.fi\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:05:18","slug":"crawling-in-dungeon-siege-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/crawling-in-dungeon-siege-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawling in Dungeon Siege II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world of Aranna is not lacking in beautiful snowy forest paths.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dungeon Siege II is sure to provide you with a great deal of exciting #dungeoncrawling.<\/p>\n

Dungeon Siege II was released in 2005 as a sequel to Dungeon Siege and a predecessor of Dungeon Siege III and most players would agree that it is, by far, the best one in the series. Along with the expansion, Broken World, it offers 50-70 hours of gameplay, but the sheer amount of side quests and possibilities in the Land of Ehb can very easily increase that number up to 100+ hours.<\/p>\n

The game is a party-based RPG, which means that you get to control a party of multiple characters which vary according to the level of difficulty selected: groups can have up to four people in
\nMercenary difficulty, five in Veteran and six in Elite. One slot is reserved for the player\u2019s custom character, and the others can be filled by recruiting NPCs or buying pets, which grow when fed with items. Each recruitable NPC has a different set of skills and background; thus, it is not uncommon to see them conversing with each other at certain points as the storyline progresses.<\/p>\n

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Looks like someone stumbled upon an interesting side quest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The classes and specialities available are not very varied (Melee, Ranged, Nature Magic, Combat Magic), and each character can advance a relatively limited amount of skills. The Broken World
\nexpansion also features two new classes: Blood Assassin and Fist of Stone. Most of the recruitable NPCs, especially later in the game, come with their own set of skills. Changing their specialities or making a hybrid character is, however, not easy; attempting so might leave you with a seriously underpowered character. As far as fighting is concerned, the player has two choices, either a casual click-to-attack mode or the rampage mode, which is more automated and pretty self-explanatory \u2013 both of these will be useful during the game. In addition\u00a0to the basic skills and spells, each\u00a0character has a powerful Hero\u00a0Power which regenerates when\u00a0basic attacks are used.<\/p>\n

However, if you are more interested\u00a0in multiplayer gaming, you would\u00a0find DS2 at least disappointing \u2013\u00a0the multiplayer version was far\u00a0from being a success, and the\u00a0servers were disabled.\u00a0Despite that, one could argue that\u00a0Dungeon Siege II one of the best of\u00a0its kind. It is evident that a lot of\u00a0work has gone into creating the\u00a0beautiful graphics, captivating\u00a0storyline and outlandish music that\u00a0allow a great dungeon crawling experience.<\/p>\n

Developer:<\/strong> Gas Powered Games
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Square Enix
\nPlatforms:<\/strong> PC
\nRelease date:<\/strong> 16 August 2005
\nPEGI rating:<\/strong> 12
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, German<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dungeon Siege II is sure to provide you with a great deal of exciting #dungeoncrawling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[247,246,206,556,194],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-digital-games","tag-english","tag-review","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}