Dungeon Siege 3
| Dungeon Siege 3 | |||
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| Part of the series: Dungeon Siege | |||
| Studio | Obsidian Entertainment | ||
| Publisher | Square Enix | ||
| Senior Developer | Richard Taylor | ||
| composer | Jason Graves Tim Wynn |
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 June 17, 2011 June 21, 2011 |
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| platform | Windows , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 | ||
| Game engine | Onyx engine | ||
| genre | Action RPG | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Mouse and keyboard , gamepad | ||
| system advantages preconditions |
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| medium | DVD-ROM , Blu-Ray , download | ||
| language | Multilingual | ||
| copy protection | Steamworks | ||
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Dungeon Siege 3 (spelling: Dungeon Siege III ) is a computer role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment. It is the direct sequel to Dungeon Siege 2 and the sixth title in the Dungeon Siege series. Dungeon Siege 3 was released on June 17, 2011.
action
The events of Dungeons Siege 3 occur approximately 150 years after the Dungeon Siege storyline . The 10th Legion, which had ensured the security of the Kingdom of Ehb for over 400 years, was almost wiped out by Jeyne Kassynder. The reason for this is the alleged guilt of the Legion for the death of their father, the King of Ehb. Since then there has been war in Ehb between Jane Kassynder and the remaining members of the royal family. Few members and descendants of the 10th Legion survived the war against Kassynder. Odo, a former spy of the 10th Legion, wants to gather the last descendants in the estate of Hugh Montbarron, the last Grand Master of the Legion, in order to resurrect the old order. But Jeyne Kassynder's troops learn of the planned meeting and raid the meeting. Only the player character and Marten Guiscard can escape the attack and flee to the valley of Rukkenvahl.
After Guiscard and the player character Odo were able to locate an old meeting house of the Legion near the village of Rabenbach, the player character is given the task of finding more survivors and supporters. After the persecutors have been driven out of Rukkenvahl, the player character sets out for Stonebridge to reopen the old meeting house of the Legion in the city. With the ever increasing support, the troops of Jeyne Kassynder are now to fight back and the beleaguered Queen Roslyn is to be rescued from her besieged quarters in the Sparkle Caves.
Gameplay
At the beginning the player chooses one of four pre-generated characters. The choices are Lucas Montbarron, a warrior and son of the last legion commander Hugh Montbarron, Anjali, a shapeshifting and magic-gifted Archon, the magician and ranged fighter Reinhart Manx and Katarina, the illegitimate daughter of Hugh Montbarron with a Lescanzi witch. The player can freely determine the further development of his character within the framework of the specifications.
development
In June 2010, the continuation of the game series was officially confirmed. After the naming rights were taken over by the Japanese publisher Square Enix , the American role-playing game developer Obsidian Entertainment received the order for the development of Dungeon Siege 3 . Chris Taylor only had an advisory role in the development. Square Enix acquired the rights to Dungeon Siege to gain market share in action role-playing games. According to our own estimates, the series was a well-known brand name with potential for expansion, especially in the console sector.
Part of the Obsidian Entertainment development team had previously worked on a design for a third Baldur's Gate and switched to action-RPG development after it was hired. From Baldur's Gate has also been adopted as a technical basis the self-developed by Obsidian Onyx engine, originally a retarded unfinished RPG in Alien was programmed universe. The original lead designer of the game was supposed to be Tony Evans, who left Obsidian before completion. Instead, Nathaniel Chapman took on this task. Compared to other Obsidian projects, the team for Dungeon Siege 3 was relatively small, especially the writing team. As Project Director, Obsidian employee Rich Taylor was in charge of the project, but the plot of the game was largely designed by Creative Lead George Ziets . Ziet's concept followed on from the tradition of the first Dungeon Siege by relocating the game to the fantasy realm of Ebh and taking up the story of the 10th Legion. He took up the background information that was already available in the first part, but was often ignored, and deepened it on the basis of Gas Powered Games ' developer bible, background information from series creator Chris Taylor and through his own ideas in a more than hundred-page design document about the game world background . When developing his concept, he was inspired, among other things, by Indian mythology, which he wanted to use to create an exotic flair in the otherwise western-European kingdom of Ebh. One result of this was the storyline about the archons who, after the death of the old gods, are stranded in the world without destiny and looking for a new raison d'être. However, there were some requirements that Ziets described in an interview in 2013 as restrictive. So the characters of the 10th Legion had to be portrayed as always good and righteous and the plot had to focus on the rescue of Ebh.
The game uses the Onyx engine. Obsidian also developed a new strategy for quality assurance strategy for the game, which had a reputation for developing highly buggy games, in order to avoid similar allegations for Dungeon Siege 3 . Dungeon Siege 3 was released on June 17th for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
synchronization
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Lucas Montbarron | Crispin Freeman | Karlo Hackenberger |
| Reinhart Manx | Dave B. Mitchell | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
| Anjali | Amanda Philipson | Arianne Borbach |
| Katarina | Anna Vocino | Britta Steffenhagen |
| Marten Guiscard | Robin Actin Downes | |
| The honorable Odo | Barry Dennan | Werner Ehrlicher |
| Mayor Moritz Grimmelhaus | Boris Tessmann | |
| Queen Roslyn | Laura Bailey | |
| Jeyne Kassynder | Catherine Taber |
reception
The game received mostly average ratings ( Metacritic : 72 out of 100 (PC), 71 (PS3), 72 (Xbox 360)). The ratings of German magazines were slightly above the international level. (Critify rating: 78 out of 100 (PC), 77 (PS3), 77 (Xbox 360)) In contrast to previous Obsidian games, Dungeon Siege 3 was mostly certified as having a low error density. The act was also praised. On the other hand, the lack of possibility to freely determine the keyboard layout was criticized in the PC version. Obsidian responded with a patch that subsequently added this function.
“The game is really not a Dungeon Siege, even if it says on the box. Dungeon victories or not, Obsidian entertained me with the story of Jeyne Kassynder. […] Dungeon Siege 3 has an improvement over its predecessors that cannot be dismissed: Fights are real fights in which I have to be skilful and not an interactive graphic demo. "
Rating table:
- GameStar : 80%
- 4Players : 71% (Xbox), 69% (PC), 67% (PS3)
- PC Games : 85%
- EuroGamer.de : 8 out of 10
- GamePro : 85%
- Games world : 70%
- GameSpot : 6.0 out of 10
- IGN : 6.5 out of 10
By September 30, 2011, 820,000 copies of the game had been sold worldwide. At 480,000 copies, sales in Europe were significantly higher than in the US (320,000) and Japan (20,000).
Treasures of the Sun (add-on)
Treasures of the Sun is a download expansion for Dungeon Siege 3 released on October 25, 2011 for console and October 26, 2011 for PC . She adds a new storyline quest line to the game in a new desert setting. In it, the heroes go in search of a missing Legion hero. The level cap has been increased from 30 to 35, and new character abilities, enemy types and items have been added.
Web links
- Official website of Dungeon Siege
- Dungeon Siege 3 at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dungeon Siege 3: Development officially confirmed + first pictures , June 8th 2010, at PC Games
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- ↑ http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8952
- ↑ Jason Schreier: The Knights of New Vegas: How Obsidian Survived Countless Catastrophes And Made Some Of The Coolest Role-Playing Games Ever ( English ) In: Kotaku . December 17, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ Metacritic.com , PC Average Rating, accessed November 7, 2011
- ^ Metacritic.com , PS3 Average Rating, accessed November 7, 2011
- ^ Metacritic.com , Xbox360 Average Rating, accessed November 7, 2011
- ↑ Critify.de , average PC rating, accessed on November 7th
- ↑ Critify.de , average PS3 rating, accessed on November 7th
- ↑ Critify.de , average Xbox360 rating, accessed on November 7th
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- ↑ http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/117/1177480p1.html
- ↑ Fred Dutton: Deus Ex: Human Revolution sells 2.18 million ( English ) In: EuroGamer.net . EuroGamer Network. November 4, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
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