The third siege a dungeons arrived a little while back, with Obsidian taking the reins a the Gas-Powered Games-created loot’n'kill fandango. I’ve been frantically clicking me mouse button at it for the last few days – an act which I have now transformed into some words.

First point a interest for me in any dungeon crawler: can I summon animals? Silently beating up monsters in rock corridors gets pretty lonely, after all. Also, I’m really very lazy – if there’s some companion animal doing half the damage for me I don’t need t' press so many number keys.

Dungeon Siege III delivers on this front, at least. me stocking-wearing gunwoman can summon a spectral hound t' antagonise foes while she snipes them from afar. On top a that, one a the AI-controlled companions (only one a which ye can have with ye at any one time) can summon a flaming hound. It’s doggy carnage out there.