From the makers of Mass Effect, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldur's Gate comes an epic tale of violence, lust, and betrayal.
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As the spiritual successor to BioWare's Baldur's Gate, one of the most successful role-playing games in the industry, Dragon Age: Origins represents BioWare's return to its roots, delivering a fusion of the best elements of existing fantasy works with stunning visuals, emotionally-driven narrative, heart-pounding combat, powerful magic abilities and credible digital actors. The spirit of classic RPGs comes of age, as Dragon Age: Origins features a dark and mature story and gameplay.
- Epic Party-Based Combat - Dragon Age: Origins will introduce an innovative, scalable combat system, as players face large-scale battles and use their party's special abilities to destroy hoardes of enemies and massive creatures.
- Powerful Magic - Raining down awesome destruction on enemies is even more compelling as players apply "spell combos," a way of combining together different spells to create emergent unique effects.
- Deep Customization - Players will develop their characters and gain powerful special abilities (spells, talents and skills) and discover ever-increasing weapons of destruction.
- Your Story, Your Way - With its emotionally compelling story, players choose with whom they wish to forge alliances or crush under their mighty fist, redefining the world with the choices they make and how they wield their power.
- Origin Stories - Players will select and play a unique prelude that provides the lens through which the player sees the world and how the world sees the player. The player's choice of Origin will determine who they are and where they begin the adventure, as they play through a customized story opening that profoundly impacts the course of every adventure.
Daniel Posted on - 23 Nov 2009
Probably the biggest console game ever created, a massive RPG a lot like Blizzard's World of Warcraft. As soon as you buy this game, you will NEVER put it down; I have casual gamer friends that have play 20 hour weekends of this!
I would compare it to Fable, and Fable 2. It's got the same platform on your Xbox360 but much more in depth combat, switching between your characters mid battle and other quirks like that, It's the kind of experience that whatever you do has a positive, negative, or neutral (Story line change!) effect on your game. Yes a lot of it is conversations but it's quite fun, and I mean it!
Pros
-INSANE amount of playtime
-Unique combat styles, Funner than most
-Great story, keeps you hooked!
-Great graphics for the xbox360 console
Cons
-You almost don't have a choice to not install it to your HD, or Your Xbox will sound like a Jet!
-Some Quests can become Tedious; Kill X, Find Y, Talk to Z etc.
-The Xbox360 version doesn't hold a candle to the PC version, you can't have an above head camera control, Bioware did 'fix' this by turning friendly fire off on Xbox making it a little sloppy.
Final thoughts
It's the unofficial ADULT Fable 2, The 'Best' RPG made for a Console
Graphics: 8/10 (The PC version will give you better options)
Story: 8.5/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Lifespan: 10/10
James Posted on - 07 Nov 2009
I have watched the trailer, it looks absolutely awesome. I haven't got around to buying it yet because I'm still low on cash, but I will once I get some.
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