GameLight - Dungeon Siege 3

I'm not sure if the demo for Dungeon Siege 3 is out for consoles yet, but Steam has the download for PC gamers.  So anyways, Dungeon Siege 3 is very different from its predecessors: Different developer, different publisher, different story, but the same title.  You could change the title of the game and no one would accuse the developers of being a copy of Dungeon Siege.  It's not a bad thing though.  The gameplay did change from being more team-managing strategical RPG to more hack-n-slash action RPG, so it may displease many avid Dungeon Siege fans.  But for those looking for a fun co-op action RPG to play, Dungeon Siege 3 provides the goods to satisfy those needs.

Source: Youtube Channel IGNentertainment

The demo may not have showed enough of the game, but the progression of levels felt extremely linear compared to the first two Dungeon Siege games.  Perhaps it eventually evolves into that level of open world gameplay, but the demo mostly shuffles the player along a narrow path to get from one event to another.  The story is told with conversations and cinematics with the dialogue wheel seen in previous titles from Obsidian such as Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Alpha Protocol.  The graphics are okay, but I couldn't really say with having to turn the resolution down to run the game smoothly.  The gameplay was interesting that you have full control when attacking (aim direction, click to attack in said direction) rather than just point-n-click (click and watch them attack an enemy).  The controls; however, seems to be designed for console controllers rather than keyboard and mouse.  The camera controls, attacking, and movement are atrocious using keyboard and mouse as it's archaic and difficult to coordinate.  This makes combat rather difficult when it's hard to see where the player is going or if there is space to dodge an attack.  The game itself is fun though.  Combat is fast-paced, skill and equipment managing retains the RPG aspects, and the enemies are pretty challenging.  I'm thinking of getting the game on PS3.  I hear it has a local co-op mode so that a buddy can join in and help control one of the AI allies.  The game feels a lot more like a Gauntlet game than a Diablo-ish game.  No complaints here though, the game is fun.