Computer Games - When the time came to create the sequel, what were the development team's main goals?

Chris Taylor – The number one goal was a deeper and more engaging story and, with that, we wanted to make the characters in the world more interesting, with history and back-story that would unfold as the game is played. Overall we wanted to maintain many of the goals we had in the original Dungeon Siege - an easy to learn interface, a graphically rich world that used state-of-the-art rendering techniques ("shaders", for example) and special effects, and our seamless world-loading technology that eliminates loading screens. We really couldn’t stop at just a few goals, so we pretty much touched every aspect of the game to notch it up two levels from where the original DS was.​