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 | Dragon Age: Origins Awakening |
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"From the Makers of the Best RPG of 2009, Dragon Age: Origins, comes the first official expansion pack. For centuries, the Grey Wardens—the ancient order of guardians, sworn to unite and defend the lands—have been battling the darkspawn forces. Legend spoke that slaying the Archdemon would have put an end to the darkspawn threat for centuries to come, but somehow they remain. You are the Grey Warden Commander and have been entrusted with the duty of rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens and uncovering the secrets of the darkspawn and how they managed to remain. How you choose to rebuild your order, how you resolve the conflict with “The Architect”, and how you determine the fate of the darkspawn will be but some of the many complex choices that await and shape your journey as you venture to the new land of Amaranthine. "Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1212 in Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Model: 19398
- Published on: 2010-05-28
- Released on: 2010-03-16
- ESRB Rating: Mature
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .60" h x 5.30" w x 7.60" l, .40 pounds
Features
- Experience additional spells, abilities, specializations, and items to further personalize and customize your hero and party ? Import your character from Dragon Age: Origins or start anew as a Grey Warden from Oralais.
- Embark on an epic story that is completely defined and reactive to your play style ? Shape your entire experience based on the choices you make and how your handle complex situations.
- Encounter five all-new party members and an old favorite from Dragon Age: Origins.
- BioWare?s deepest universe to date just got bigger with an all new area of the world to explore, Amaranthine ? Unlock the secrets of the Darkspawn and their true motivations ? Rebuild the Grey Warden order.
- Battle against a new range of horrific and terrifying creatures ? Put your skills to the test against an evolved, intelligent breed of Darkspawn and other menacing creatures including the Inferno Golem, Spectral Dragon and others.
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Really just another DLC
I love that Bioware is still
pushing content for this game. Given, the DLC's to date have been hit
and miss, but I still liked how they added more enjoyment to the game.
Awakening plays more like a DLC than what I would expect from a full on
expansion.
The story is well written (though this is usually a
given for Bioware games) and the playthrough is fun enough. But due to
the linear playstyle and lack of any character development, there is
really little reason to play more than once. All previous downloaded
content is incompatible with this expansion. Rather sad to try and play
my previous character and find that I started out completely naked.
I
had hoped that loading a previous campaign would fill out the story and
world I made through my previous actions and encounters, but it
actually changes little. You see a familiar face, but not one anyone
really cared about.
The new skills are nice to have. Each class
has a new row of advanced skills which have level requirements rather
than any stat pre-requisites.
I didn't try out the mage campaign,
so I can't comment on how well the new spells work but I can't see how
this should make or break this game.
In the end, I would have
given this a higher score, but the price tag is nuts for an expansion.
After buying the game, all of the DLC's and now this expansion we are
looking at $80 to $100 just to get everything. Not being able to use
your download content items is rather sad as well. Expansions should
"expand" a game, not add a disconnected tangent to a story.
Dissapointing
I was looking forward to this
game and preordered it. Maybe I was expecting too much. My biggest
problem is how short the game is. Easily beaten, including all side
quests within 15 hours. Way too short. What was made out to be a
sprawling epic felt more like a weekend in the life of a Grey Warden.
When the other reviews say it felt like DLC, they are right. Companions
were generic with little redeeming qualities. I pretty much could have
cared less about any of them. The character Nathaniel turned out to be
the best of the bunch as far as back story goes. The rest of the
companions seemed to be thrown in so you'd have a complete group.
Companions in Awakening = easily disposable. Side quests were easy to
the point of being unnecessary in some cases. The City of Arimathine is
the most drab city you'll run into, more like a very small town. Anybody
who has played Origins will feel underwhelmed by Awakening. The
graphics are as good as the first. The storage container at the Vigil is
a welcome addition. All in all, too little game to warrant the price
tag. Wait for the price to drop if your thinking about purchasing this.
A sad downgrade from dragon age
First, let me state that I
LOVED dragon age origins, I would give that game a near perfect score.
So with a great disappointment that I have to give such a low score to
awakening. For whatever mind boggling reason, They took out the very
things that made origins special, for example, they took out the
interacting with your party members at camp and instead, have this non
intuitive way of party members where they will say something only if you
are at the right place, at the right time, with the right item. Its
very confusing and I know I have missed out on much conversational dilog
simply because you have no idea on what to do. On top of that, even
when you do get to interact with characters, its pretty shallow and
doesn't feel so much as you are interacting with them, than simply
hearing what quest they want. There is no deep emotional stories,
history, banter, romance, philosophy,etc that was present in the first
game, its just the bare bone facts and then they shut up like clams
until whatever random activation mechanism gets them to talk again. In
origins I truly cared for my comrades and would go to the ends of the
earth to help them out with their quests. In awakening, I felt nothing, I
did a couple of companions quests, but gave up after a while because
you do not care about them and when a couple died at the end pf the
game, I said "meh".
Then there is the liner generic rpg quests
that seemed mostly just time killer, search all over map for dragon
bones, search all over map for rare seeds, search all over map for
particular tree...etc, much of it was pretty boring leg work. There
isn't any unique quests besides the main ones, also, there are very few
places to go, I know this is an expansion, but you only have ONE city
you can go to and its very small.
Then there are the bugs, not
ingame bugs, but software bugs, You will run into them fairly often,
freezing screen, quests not updating correctly, missing items. So a fair
warning about that.
Finally, the game just feels unfinished,
*spoiler warning, do not read past this*
*you were warned*
After
the big boss battle at the end, expect a huge disappointment that there
is no epilogue, literally, right after the fight it jumps to a quick
text telling about what happened to all the areas and your companions.
The game does not even save your character after the end of the boss
battle, so you will always be right before the boss battle if you
continue.
Then the price is outrageous, I preordered based on
the fantastic experience I had with dragon age, now I have buyers
remorse. I highly suggest waiting for this game to come down in price,
you will feel ripped off if you get it now.
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