Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna Expansion Pack

by Microsoft Games Studio

Product Features

• Dungeon Siege® combines the immersive elements of a role-playing game with over-the-top intensity and non-stop action.
• You begin as a humble farmer, and as you travel through the world and gain new skills, you can gather a party of up to eight characters to aid you.
• Microsoft Game Studios has made the decision to retire player matchmaking services for Dungeon Siege.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J14PBU
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 1, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,529 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Edition: Jewel Case

Players return to the world of Aranna and start an all-new adventure in the Dungeon Siege expansion pack, an addition to the popular Dungeon Siege PC title. Players are drawn outside the original Kingdom of Ehb into the wilds of Aranna to solve an ancient mystery.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT ACTION-cRPG EXPANSION!, January 11, 2008

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NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

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 (who thought up ...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!

This is the expansion mind you (but it also includes the original!). You will enjoy it more than most latest games!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hack? Check. Slash? Check. Excellent Game? Check., May 9, 2008

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Floating Duck (Oregon, United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

Dungeon Siege is a fine game even six years after release.

Dungeon Siege uses the standard hack n' slash formula:
- Bare bones story
- Bare bone character devolpement
- Unquenchable thirst to find better equipement
- Unquenchable thirst to play for only ten more minutes before you realize it is two AM and you've been playing ALL day.

A pleasant surprise for me was the amazing soundtrack of Dungeon Siege. An unpleasant surprise for me was the lack of skill tree for the characters.

If you are a hack n' slash gaming fan you must play this game.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old guy having fun, December 13, 2010

By 

John Popp (Moses Lake, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I suppose most kids would view this with disdain, but I at 67 enjoy it greatly as a diversion from technical vocation. As with most games having relatively static formats, it eventually becomes somewhat predictable, yet continually offers opportunity for improvement in play and strategy. Have played many times over with no loss of interest. This version contains both the original Dungeon Siege and the subsequent Legends of Aranna, so that it's actually two quite different and entertaining games in one package.

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