Character voices exist and are generally good for all of the playable characters and a great deal of the NPCs that you’ll encounter throughout the game. This is not to say that the music is bad or that none of it stands out to engage the player through moments of story exposition, but on the whole it essentially boils down to well arranged filler. Quite unfortunately the musical score of the game tends to be more ambient than Jeremy Soule’s usual work. Albeit not bad, the level of detail is simply not what a great many other games have recently begun to give their characters and NPCs. Not quite so detailed or fantastic are the character models, which suffer primarily from the comparison that has to be made between them and the backgrounds and environments in the game. The quality of the graphics that guide you through your journey is quite excellent, including the extremely colorful and encroaching jungle of Greilyn Isle or the dusty, brown bleakness of the Azunite Desert. This relative lack of originality does less to hurt the game than to help it, but it does make for easy comparisons, on a number of issues, between both titles in the series. Sadly the very reliance upon a continuous storyline that gives the game its robust nature also prevents the game from venturing too far off the beaten path.
The wide array of story arcs and sidequests that the game offers based on these preexisting elements are an excellent source of entertainment to divert you from the fifty plus hours of the central plot around which the game quests revolve. Although the Kingdom of Ehb is far away from the central action, the hero worshipping of the Azunites, the legends of the dwarves, the history of the elves, and the mystical flow of energies that run beneath it are all present in the greater continent of Aranna. In addition to having a riveting opening for practically any game, the opening scene of Dungeon Siege II has the benefit of sitting directly on top of the story and mythos of its predecessor. Dungeon Siege II picks up the tale in the present day, at the end of the Second Age, where the sword and the shield have it in their destiny to meet once more. When the sword of Zaramoth struck against Azunai’s shield, which was itself forged with the raw power to protect, it evoked a terrible cataclysm that altered the shape of the world and shifted the stars in the sky. 1000 years ago, at the end of the First Age, Zaramoth the Unmaker and his sword forged out of the raw power to dominate fought a climactic duel against Azunai the Defender and his shield.
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