Dungeon Siege II demo up

By Corey Brotherson Published 4 August, 2005

More Eurofiles goodness.

Microsoft has released a playable demo for its 3D role-playing sequel, Dungeon Siege II – now available on Eurofiles.

The rather large (1,431MB [Jumping donkeys! - Ed]) single-player download offers a chance to watch the two lengthy introductory cut-scenes before leaping into the tutorial section, taking you up to the Elven Shrine area from the Mercenary campaign. That may sound a little weird to onlookers, but trust us; it's worth the potential ridicule.

Gas Powered Games' Dungeon Siege II will be released on PC this September.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • deepmenace #1 7 years ago

    annoying, 1.4gb for none of the stuff i want the game for.

    gimme a quick mplayer dungeon hack and i'll download it.

  • tengu #2 7 years ago

    Eurofiles good? When did this happen?

  • Lutz #3 7 years ago

    September release? All dates are pointing to a 12th August release no?

  • alco75 #4 7 years ago

    1.4GB? meh.

  • towser #5 7 years ago

    For a demo?!!!? Sweet jesus. think I'll wait for PC Zone to put it on their cover disk.

  • sposh #6 7 years ago

    Gamespot and EBgames have a release and ship date respectively of August 16th.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #7 7 years ago

    Sorry, I think the release date mixup is down to me, don't hate Corey for my incompetance!

    /runs

    I think August might be a US release, Game/amazon.co.uk/simply games all say september.

    EB only ships to US address' on 16 of August.
    Edited by 3 at 04/08/05 @ 16:52

  • AssassiN Verified Owner/Editor, Computers N Stuff #8 7 years ago

    towser-you're in luck the next issue of PCZone (#159-the Redesign issue) has the demo on their Coverdisk!

  • motslaps #9 7 years ago

    I spent all day downloading it and have just played for a bit... it's ok, I was expecting big things but I guess I need to spend more time with it

  • UncleLou #10 7 years ago

    Hm, I had Azureus running for two hours now, and had an average download speed of 4kb per second. It's definitely not a problem on my end, as other torrents work just fine (and easily reach the max download speed of my DSL connection). If not many people are downloading it at the same time, shouldn't the server be able to help out?

  • Khab #11 7 years ago

    I sure as FECK ain't downloading no 1.4 gig demo for two cut-scenes! They are there to set the mood for the game, not to bloat every single download around it!

  • lemonfist #12 7 years ago

    Downloaded it earlier today, but don't even feel like installing it now after watching some horribly depressing screenshots :/

  • Hunam85 #13 7 years ago

    this demo is so bad i wanted to hurt myself

  • penhalion #14 7 years ago

    Ok how the feck did it take them god knows how many years to produce an add-on for the original dungeon siege....it's a whole new game you say.....yea sure what evar!

    Seriously though. What has changed. Did I miss something? I even compared the original to the demo and I'm just plain stumped as to what is new and different about Dungeon siege 2. Slightly better graphics but, still no story (aside from some totally non- gamplay related cut scenes). Your character doesn't even have the moves he displays in the cut scenes just plain click and hack boredom!

  • jlaakso #15 7 years ago

    I actually thought it was a strength of Dungeon Siege that it had no story. I would've liked to get the objectives, too, without cutscenes of any sort. Straight hack'n'slash, thank you!

    I haven't completed the first one, though, but I've liked the bits I've played quite a... bit. Although I do confess I bought it in anticipation of the Lazarus V mod.

  • penhalion #16 7 years ago

    Jlaakso

    My point is that this isn't an improvement on the original dungeon siege that you would have thought 4 odd years of development would bring! No shaders, no normal maps (that I notived anyway) no better fighting animations (go check out KOTOR for how an automated battle sequence should look. If you don't control what moves your character has, at least let it look like they are fighting properly).

    This game uses none of the features of any new graphics cards. If you have upgraded in the last 2-3 years to even a lowly 6200 or X300, this game will not be using the shader features of your card!

    No doubt money will change hands and Eurogamer will give it a 9/10 or something equally ludicrous

  • Hicksy #17 7 years ago

    doesn't sound good :(

  • Wash #18 7 years ago

    Right ^^ strong glue can be brought by anyone nowadays..

    This has... nothing to do with the 360. But wotever fanboy steve.

    I liked DS1, and i like DS2.. yeah its not a revolutionary step... still i like it. Prolly cos i liked the first... does that make me weird?

  • Wash #19 7 years ago

    Like DS1 on Xbox... ohh wait. :\

  • gamesb*tch #20 7 years ago

    DS - ah sweet memories of Turbans +7

    #starts demo,dons elf ears#

    Hmmmmmm tis the same as DS1 or so it appeareth... :/