Dungeon Siege is an action fantasy RPG that puts you into fully 3D fantasy world on a massive quest to stop a mysterious evil that has been unleashed. The game has been developed by Gas Powered Games, founded by in May 1998 by Chris Taylor who created Total Annihilation (1997). Yeah seems Chris Taylor strike back :) Well, this game has been kinda hyped, so I was pretty pessimistic before I have installed the game and start to play it. After more then 15 hours of playing I coulnd't stop. Now I can only confirm that Dungeon Siege is another pretty addictive title for all fans of the click and slash RPG genre. The background and story for Dungeon Siege was written and conceived by award winning writer Neal Hallford. You play the role of a humble farmer who will eventually become a master warrior, a veteran marksman, or a powerful wizard. You have to master close-combat fighting, ranged combat, and magic spells and also enlist a party of followers to aid you on your quest.

Dungeon Siege features intense, over-the-top combat, totally customizable character (skills: Melee, Ranged, Combat Magic and Nature Magic), any character can learn any type of skill and use any weapon or any spell (of course your class name changes as your skills improve), ability to control an entire party of 8 characters (like fighters, magic users, archers and even mules to carry more equipment), a wide variety of formations, diverse range of monsters that walk, crawl, fly, and hover (they are armed with a large variety of weapons), over 140 spells, both defensive (healing and bless) and offensive (fireballs, chain lightning, implosion...) spells, special spells (including resurrect the dead or animate fallen enemies to fight alongside them) + ability to create your own spells and special effects, the Siege Editor (it's the same tool that makers used to design and build the game), 30 and 50 hours of gameplay (depending on skill level), multiplayer via LAN/Internet (MS Zone), both the "Kingdom of Ehb" or "Utraean Peninsula" map can be used and played either cooperatively or competitively, Player vs Player (PvP) mode.

The gameplay in Dungeon Siege is much like that in Diablo, I could say it's even more hack and slash than Diablo :) Because ain't hard-core RPG gamer, I like such action oriented gameplay. For those who want play righteous "RPG", wait for Neverwinter Nights and leave me alone :P Here are enemies almost everywhere, and in most cases they come at you, and later at your party, in groups and waves. Oh yeah! Of course these sometime disgusting monsters have a singular goal - destroy your party. Fortunately you don't need to destroy your mouse by clicking like in Diablo, Dungeon Siege offers the automatic attack disposition (in addition you can choose if your character should attack first the strongest/weakest/closest monster). There's always also in-game pause button that allows for quick weapon/spell switching etc. It's pretty handy if you have to control more party members. With incredibly flexible camera you can play the game from different visual perspectives - isometric, top-down, and traditional third-person. That rocks! How I mentioned above, Dungeon Siege includes several different multiplayer games you can play. First is playing cooperatively in the single-player world as a team or you can play in a huge multiplayer world. The multiplayer is even more fun than the single player mode and will provide endless hours of entertainment. I almost forget that the game allows you to import any character from one of your single-player campaigns.

What else to say. I love this game, it's damn addictive! :) I can image how someone will say it's repetitive shit, but it isn't (at least for me). The hunting for better items and equipment is very satisfying and thanks to auto-combat you won't suffer by eternal clicking and your mouse will survive :) It's definitely one of the best RPG's to ever hit the PC platform. I strongly recommend you to buy it.