Dungeon Siege II Gone Gold
Reported by Gamespot.com, Dungeon Siege II has gone gold, and is now scheduled to ship on August 16th:
The sequel to the 2002 RPG of the near-same name, Dungeon Siege II once again drops players into the magical realm of Aranna. However, this fantastical land is not doing especially fantastic, as it’s been laid waste by a wandering horde of malevolent brigands and years of civil war. It will be up to players to assembly a group of stalwart adventurers to vanquish the heartless bandits and restore peace to Aranna.
Besides the new storyline and a new extensive quest system, Dungeon Siege II will sport enhanced artificial intelligence and a new 3D graphics engine that will power the game’s real-time combat. The game will also support online cooperative multiplayer action.
For more details about the game itself, an interesting Q & A with Bartosz Kijanka (the game’s executive producer) has also been released.
GS: How much gameplay do you figure is in Dungeon Siege II? We know that you can play through the campaign three times, and each subsequent time you start with the character that you ended with the previous time, meaning that the game scales up to become a tougher challenge. Is there any randomization or things that will be different on subsequent attempts?
BK: Dungeon Siege II contains a massive amount of gameplay. The exact figure is determined by your skill as a player, how much you like to venture off the main path to explore, and other factors such as how much you like to spend in the shops to maximize your characters. On average, I would expect the campaign to take 60 or more hours to play. It could take significantly longer for some who like to explore, or for those who like to replay sections. Yes, there is a substantial amount of randomization in the game, mixed in with handcrafted scenarios and boss monsters. One could spend a lotof time exploring this world, and I expect many people will.
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