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Dragon Age Origins on PS3
Reviewed by Aaron Waller
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Story:
Ok so for once I really cant write what the personal story is for you. After all there are a lot to choose from. In each race there are 2 ways you can normally go, and each has their own background and history. The two basic ones of course are the humans, which is what I'm going to be writing about. Or at least the Warrior class, its the most basic storyline and character and actually the only one I've almost beaten. For my character I made him a male, so things are a little different depending on what gender you take but mostly small words like sister and she/her sort of things. You start out as the son of a well known and well liked Noble Man, who has his own estate or castle and his own troops. There is word of a "small" amount of Dark Spawn making its way onto the surface from below and everyone is preparing to send a small amount of troops to fight them off before it starts another Blight. Your brother leads this team of men either with or against your blessing, and you don't really ever see him again (remember I'm near the end but have not finished). With half of the men that were guarding your castle gone, your fathers friend Arl Howe (I think please correct me if I'm getting that mixed up) gets into a bit of a quiff with your father. While all this is happening a strange man, or at least strange to you comes into town to have a talk with your father. This man Duncan is what everyone calls a Grey Warden. The Grey Wardens are basically what their name entails they are he/she whom defend the world from the Dark Spawn, mainly the Blight should one happen to occur. They Ward off evil wherever it hides or attacks, its just what they do. Coincidence? I think not. During the night while you're asleep the castle comes under attack. Its the Arl's men and they are attacking everyone that they see. Eventually leading to you escaping the castle with Duncan (whom I think happens to be voiced by Liam Neesen) after the inevitable deaths of your parents inside their own castle walls.
That is one origin story among many others in this game. I recommend that you try and play to the end of each possible one. It will actually help you in your journey with whom ever you decide to finish the game with. Because from what I can tell, each one of them somehow intersects with the other. For example, I am the human knight and I've just now come across an Alienage which had a riot break out and left a powerful man dead. In the Dalish City Elf story you end up getting revenge Mel Gibson style (no not against your wife or Jewish police women) and you kill the Arl watching over the Alienage. Turns out that's the area I'm trying to get into now, as a human. So if not for the trophies, or Achievements then just to help you get a total understanding of the big picture.
On this they've done a fantastic job. The sheer amount of story that comes from this game is huge, not only is the game 20 to 50 hours long but it has 8 or more to choose from (I'm not going to count). And they did a great job on the stories they've chosen to use in this game. I could probably do without the Woodland Dalish Elf story, but so far the others are pretty rich and unique. It really does bring you into their world, and if you're not a D&D fan you will be or you'll have a better understanding of what its all about just by playing a little bit of this game.
Overall Score
5 out of 5
Gameplay and Controlling:
The game basically works like an action RPG, where you have the option to stop the battle or regular game anytime you wish in order to select an action for any of your characters to take. Lets say I want to cast Frost weapons for all my characters. I would press the L2 button and then select the character with that spell ability. In my case it happens to be a powerful witch called Morrigan. After selecting the the ability your character automatically uses the spell, even if it had a prior command locked in. There are more detailed ways in which you can command your party, but it would take a while to explain and example. The controlling of your characters is rather smooth, and a great mix between strategy, and action. For D&D fans everywhere I believe you will be pleased. Otherwise I never had a major issue with controlling any of my characters. I did have an issue where it got stuck on the action reticule but all I had to do was press start and go back into the game. So I wont use that against the game. The game handles rather well in all other respects. If anyone is a fan or has watched, been apart of a D&D game this works a lot like that, but without the dice. Everything is handled electronically of course which makes this version of a D&D game well worth a shot by all Role Players. If you're ever at home and your geekdom requires a Dungeon Master and a group of adventurers this game takes care of that need. The max level for the Origins game is lvl 20, so as from what I found out plan everything out beforehand. Some of the abilities I wanted, I'm no longer able to have since I had just reached the max level.
Overall score
5 out of 5
Overall game
Overall Dragon Age Origins is a great game. It doesn't just tell you a story, but you actually get to live it. Like a choose your own story book, in this game your choices change the outcome of the game. Either for good or bad, whatever you chose is what you get. BioWare is amazing at choice, and immersion. They are slowly becoming my favorite gaming company. All they have to do is keep making games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age and I'll be happy. I do recommend this game for everyone, but children do need to either have a parents permission or a parents censorship at certain points. The game is made for Adults, there is a lot of blood and some old uses of language. If you do certain things right in the game you can even have a relationship with one or (more) of the characters. So please be forewarned parents this game is not for the kind at heart. But you will love this game, and despite not being great for younger players this game would be great for any adventurous parent or teenager.
Overall game score
5 out of 5
Personally this game makes my top 10 list.
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| In service to the Empire Reviewed by Aaron Waller 01/24/2011 |
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