Product Description

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. The survival of humanity rests in the hands of those chosen by fate. You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of an ancient order of guardians who have defended the lands throughout the centuries. Betrayed by a trusted General in a critical battle, you must hunt down the traitor and bring him to justice.

As you fight your way towards the final confrontation with an evil nemesis, you will face monstrous foes and engage in epic quests to unite the disparate peoples of a world at war. A romance with a seductive shape-shifter may hold the key to victory, or she may be a dangerous diversion from the heart of your mission. To be a leader, you must make ruthless decisions and be willing to sacrifice your friends and loved ones for the greater good of mankind

Game features:

• A Stunning World to Explore:
• BioWare's deepest universe to date with over 80 hours of gameplay and more than double the size and scope of Mass Effect
• Travel throughout dozens of environments and fully immerse yourself in a shattered world that is on the brink of utter annihilation
• An epic story that is completely shaped and reactive to your play style
• Complex Moral Choices:
• Tailor your Dragon Age: Origins experience from the very beginning by choose from six different Origin Stories
• Decide how to handle complex issues like murder, genocide, betrayal, and the possession/sacrificing of children without the security of a good/bad slider to tell you what to do
• Full Character Customisation:
• Sculpt your hero in your own image or fantasy
• Elaborate character creator allows you to create your own hero unique from anyone else
• Shape your character's personality and morality based on

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-11-06
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
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. The survival of humanity rests in the hands of those chosen by fate. You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of an ancient order of guardians who have defended the lands throughout the centuries. Betrayed by a trusted general in a critical battle, you must hunt down the traitor and bring him to justice.

As you fight your way towards the final confrontation with an evil nemesis, you will face monstrous foes and engage in epic quests to unite the disparate peoples of a world at war. A romance with a seductive shapeshifter may hold the key to victory, or she may be a dangerous diversion from the heart of your mission. To be a leader, you must make ruthless decisions and be willing to sacrifice your friends and loved ones for the greater good of mankind.

Customer Reviews

The best RPG for the 360!
Yes! It's what all us RPG fans have been looking for...a 'true blue' RPG for consoles. All of you that loved the RPG greats, baldur's gate, neverwinter nights, oblivion, mass effect will love this!

I certainly do...it is an amazing immersive game with fantastic dialogue and voice acting (which i particularly love) You really find yourself getting attached to characters in a way that tugs at my heartstrings and makes them seem like real beings like no other game previously (I have a major crush on Alistair, actually ^^). Play this game at the peril of your social life - it will suck you into its expansive world whether you like it or not. The 6 'origins' idea are fantastic and the way WHO you are in the game makes a significant difference to how NPCs feel/act towards you is wonderful...And each NPC with dialogue options has such a well developed character and backstory they have enough depth to be the main character! Choosing who you are in the game is so free and open ended, you can be as good or bad as you like or anywhere inbetween and I feel this 'free choice' has been executed better than in any game, EVER! (Sorry fable I, II, Oblivion - you've been thrashed) I find the graphics actually quite satisfactory and some of the cutscenes are breathtaking...the kinds of stuff that makes your hair stand up and beautiful sweeping soundtrack.

The actual gameplay (quests, battles, interaction, items etc.) is just ... addictive and so much fun! You get drawn into the story and its so much fun to play that you'll find yourself picking up your controller whenever you can. You get ALOT of bang for your buck with this game with insane amounts of gameplay available and SO much replay with the 3 different classes and races offering a new game experience each time. There's so much I could go on to rant about but I just want to get across: This. Is. An. Amazing. Game.

Just, buy it...seriously. If you like RPGs you HAVE to have it...have to!

...HAVE TO!!!

Fun but flawed
I finished playing the game a couple of days ago. I must say it did not live up the the hype, unfortunately. My main concern was with the control system for your characters. From what I have seen of the PC version you control characters with a mouse click, then a spell or power, click on a target and then let it go. With the xbox version you must cycle through a series of radial menus and then map the spell or power to one of the face buttons on the control pad before casting it. I played a mage and after levelling up a few times the number of powers you receive increases, so I spent a lot of time shuffling 6 spells around from a larger list, making this process cumbersome to use. Also there is no option to select all of your characters to move them at once. This is ridiculous, I kept wanting to round everyone up and send them to a tactical position. Not so I'm afraid, they all obey the AI rules that you set for them through preselected 'tactics', running off to attack bad guys or just standing there to take damage. WIth some clever tweaking you can improve their behaviour, but this needs micromanaging for different types of enemy encounter which is not to every players' taste.

The voice acting is very good as others have said, and the love interests (including male/male and female/female) provide a good distraction. Unfortunately you main character remains mute however, with dialogue options chosen from a drop down list, and voice actors filling in the other side of the conversation. This severely damages the realism of it. Why on Earth they didn't use the Mass Effect model of selecting conversation styles and then allowing the voice acting to play out? That system was far superior, as were the character models used to portray speech, in this game you still get really bad lip syncing.

The actual gaming 'area' is much smaller than I expected, much like the other Bioware titles Mass effect, KOTOR and NeverWinter Nights. Don't expect free roaming like in Bethesda titles Oblivion or Fallout 3, within any area you constantly run into invisible barriers, doors that don't open, and a map loading screen with splotches of blood drawn to depict your movement across a map. This means that you get absolutely no sense that the different locations you visit are connected in any way, which is a shame given that you have to save this land they call Ferelden and yet it doesn't feel like a complete land at all.

The graphics engine is based on Neverwinter Nights, and to be honest doesn't improve on it overly much. The Xbox version has been criticised for its poor graphics, although the framerate is steady so it doesn't jerk around even with lots of effects going on on screen. So not bad, but certainly not astounding.

Overall I would recommend the game (despite my criticisms) particularly to RPG fans if not a mainstream audience. The plot is good (if a little cliched), the voice acting is entertaining and there is some good tactical stuff (if you can abide the clunky control system). I would certainly opt for the PC version if you have even a half decent graphics card as it turns out it runs on fairly modest specs. I bought the Xbox version and played halfway through until I realised the PC version would run on my ageing laptop. Ah well.

Solid RPG
I'm about 10 hours into this game. At first, I was disappointed. I began as a human noble, and at first the graphics and voice acting seemed very poor. I kept going, however, and the game gets much better. The story and characters are very interesting, and there seem to be romance options to pursue. Even the graphics seem to improve as the game goes on. I'm enjoying Dragon Age far more than I enjoyed Oblivion, but compared to other Bioware games it feels as though it's lacking something. It will, however, more than tide me over until Mass Effect 2 comes out.