![]() The quests exist largely as window dressing for the click-happy combat—no nuanced conversation trees, here, kids–and they’re fairly standard-issue. ![]() Eventually, you work to bring about his destruction. In an interesting touch, you actually begin the game in Valdis’ employ. They sorta destroyed each other some eons ago, but it seems a power-hungry prince named Valdis now wields Zaramoth’s ultra-magical sword. The story involves an epic and ancient conflict between the spidery lord Zaramoth and his shield-toting foe, Azunai. Taylor has made no secret about his desire to return to the real-time strategy genre, and so it’s no surprise we see a lot of what made the original great return and be enhanced in Dungeon Siege 2. In further attempt to realize its potential, Gas Powered devised an expansion pack, Legends of Aranna, which showed that the company was certainly on track in terms of how to draw players into the Dungeon Siege universe, which many still think of as Diablo on crack. While it didn’t quite live up to its initial promise — its story and gameplay fall a bit flat — its beauty was indisputable. ![]() When Gas Powered Games, the company he formed after leaving developer Cavedog Interactive, the gaming community completely expected a real-time strategy game to emerge from its halls. Ever since 1997’s Total Annihilation, its creator Chris Taylor has been perceived as a man with a vision to be reckoned with.
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