Dungeon Siege II (2005)
Dungeon Siege II is a 2005 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Gas Powered Games and Take-Two Interactive.
A generation after the Land of Ehb was saved, a new heir rises on the Plain of Tears, consuming those who kneel and destroying those who resist. Dungeon Siege II keeps Gas Powered Games' seamless, loading-free world and party marching, but tightens the design with clearer quests, companions who join your band, and skill trees for melee, ranged, and magic. The lore reaches back a thousand years, to the day two armies and their gods burned together in a cataclysm that unchained magic across the world. You gather a band, chase artifacts, and hold the line.
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What is Dungeon Siege II about?
A generation after the Land of Ehb was saved, a new heir rises on the Plain of Tears, consuming those who kneel and destroying those who resist. Dungeon Siege II keeps Gas Powered Games' seamless, loading-free world and party marching, but tightens the design with clearer quests, companions who join your band, and skill trees for melee, ranged, and magic. The lore reaches back a thousand years, to the day two armies and their gods burned together in a cataclysm that unchained magic across the world. You gather a band, chase artifacts, and hold the line.
When was Dungeon Siege II released?
Dungeon Siege II was released on 16 August 2005.
Who made Dungeon Siege II?
Dungeon Siege II was made by Gas Powered Games, Take-Two Interactive and Microsoft Game Studios.
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Dungeon Siege II widens the march with sharper quests and companions who fight beside you. Its backdrop of warring gods and a broken rebellion echoes Game of Thrones, where old dynasties burn over who gets to rule. Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack keeps the orchestral scale of the campaign in the ear.
Epic fantasy sagas built on a war that never really ended
Dungeon Siege II opens a generation after Ehb was saved, its new threat rooted in a cataclysm a thousand years gone. That same long shadow, an ancient conflict still shaping armies, thrones, and magic today, runs through these sagas: seek them out for the same sense of history weighing on every battlefield.
Bands of misfit heroes gathering strength against the dark
Dungeon Siege II sends you out to gather a band and chase down artifacts before an heir devours everyone who resists. These stories run on the same engine: young fighters banding together, each with a different power, growing stronger together as they close in on the source of the threat they are hunting.
Metal and prog albums that sound like the fall of an age
The war that unmade Dungeon Siege II's world happened a thousand years before the story starts, and its weight still presses on every scene. These records carry that same doom-laden grandeur, mythic imagery and crushing scale built for a world already scarred by gods, magic, and catastrophe long before anyone alive remembers it.