Dungeon Siege II: Broken World Review

WorthPlaying has conjured up a somewhat disappointing review of Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, giving the expansion pack an overall score of 6.5/10.
By my way of thinking, at least so far as expansions are concerned, if they don't completely enhance the basic experience of the game they are connected to then they aren't really worth a whole separate purchase. Much as I hate using Blizzard as an example yet again (I almost make the company sound infallible), their add-ons for both Starcraft and Diablo 2 essentially re-worked the games into a whole new experience. In the case of Broken World, whether you have it installed or not makes no difference whatsoever to Dungeon Siege II, aside from giving you the end of the story. (Which should have been included from the beginning anyways.) Microsoft has released a version of this game together with the expansion, and that makes a decent value, but as a stand alone release Broken World doesn't merit anything more than a bargain-bin purchase.