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Gamers Hell has written a preview of Dungeon Siege. Here's a bit about the controls:
You can expect the controls of Dungeon Siege to be somewhat different from other role-playing games. Even though there are heaps of pre-set hotkeys that you can customize on your own you will end up doing the most of the controlling via the mouse. In the game window you can select one or more team member, select between weapons like melee, ranged, combat spells and nature spells. Each type of weapon has a hotkey set to it (which you can change if you want.), so that if you want your male hero to use a melee weapon, a female hero to use a bow and a second female to use a combat spell you can set that to the key '1', and if you're feel crazy you can set the male to use a nature spell and the two female heroes to use melee weapons by pressing '2'. It's all up to you! One of the things that separate Dungeon Siege a lot from other games of the genre is that it doesn't use the classic "earn a bundle of experience and choose the skill you want". Rather, if you use a bow a whole lot your ranged attack skill will increase, along with mainly dexterity, but also strength and intelligence. The same goes for melee attacks, where strength is the important factor, and intelligence with combat and nature spells. The only problem I found was that if you want the melee skill level of a hero to increase after it having used ranged attacks a while I noticed that he was struggling a whole lot, so a hint in the start of the game is to balance the use of weapons to some extent, and later specialize them in either melee, ranged or spells. |
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Gamers Hell looks at Dungeon Siege
