Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition

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Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition From Electronic Arts List Price: $49.95 Price: $47.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Amazon.com 14 new or used available from $46.99 Average customer review:

Product Description

Get the ultimate Dragon Age experience! Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition includes: Dragon Age: Origins. You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of this legendary order of guardians. With the return of mankind's ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon once and for all. Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Expansion Pack. The story of the Grey Wardens continues as you are named their commander. Fight new enemies, learn new skills and spells, and explore an all-new area of the world, Amaranthine. All Nine Content Packs Extend your adventure with The Stone Prisoner, Warden's Keep, Return to Ostagar, Feastday Gifts, The Darkspawn Chronicles, Feastday Pranks, Leliana's Song, The Golems of Amgarrak, and Witch Hunt. Collect new rewards, gain new party members, and more as you delve deeper into the Dragon Age storyline.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #812 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 19523
• Released on: 2010-10-25
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Includes The 2009 ?RPG Of The Year? Dragon Age: Origins, The Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Expansion Pack, Plus All Nine Additional Content Packs
• Critically acclaimed winner of more than 50 awards including over 30 ?Best Of 2009? awards
• A tremendous $114 value at one low price
• Critically acclaimed winner of more than 50 awards including over 30 ?Best of 2009' awards. A tremendous $112 value at one low price.

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Customer Reviews

THE RETURN TO THE AGE OF THE CLASSICS IS NOW COMPLETE! In the past I have chastised EA a number of times for its release of cookie-cutter games, crippled with atrocious DRM schemes. So, in all fairness, I now have to say this: DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS IS A GAMER's DREAM! It is an excellent game collection which comes (almost) free of any DRM madness. The original game and its expansion have only a simple disk-check whereas, for some unfathomable reason, the DLCs/Packs have to be downloaded from EA's site. So, thank you EA for listening to your customers (although you missed the cigar for not been able to hold it together to the end). This is one of those games that are easy to control, a joy to roam through and fun to play at no end. I am a huge cRPG fan and cannot remember such a great companion/squad cRPG ever since the Baldur's Gate Saga. And to tell you the truth, this is the game I was dreaming of being able to play one day while playing BG (yeah, by now we all know that NEVERWINTER NIGHTS never delivered). There are about a dozen gender/race/class/background choices and a great many combinations in forming your party. The armor and the weapons are exceptionally made and everything shows on your characters. And the graphics are truly beautiful! You have to see the rendering of flames to believe them. Nevertheless, what really stands out is the gameplay. Every battle is a puzzle to be solved, pausing ever so often to reallocate enemies to the best suited party members (a feature I loved in BG!). Of course one can always turn off the autopause feature and let the AI take over the rest of your party and turn the game into an hack&slash action RPG (not exactly my cup of tea but, hey, it's still nice to know it's there). Finally, this is a game made just like the classics in many ways, including duration. I have been playing the game for hours at no end and I feel the urge to start over the moment I reach the epilogue. Now DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS is one satisfying RPG! My only gripe is this: I did not appreciate such short dialogue options. Most fit a single line and more often than not they consist of a couple of words. I like my RPGs to be wordy and challenging to my verbal imagination as well - and I want my characters to participate in the humor, not just provoke it or react to it. Remember the long dialogue options in BG? Well, expect to find DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS much more laconic. I guess 10 years of fast-paced FPS and blitzkrieging RTS do take their toll... This ULTIMATE EDITION not only contains both the original game and its AWAKENINGS expansion but also all nine Content Packs. For such an epic game to be sold at this price, this is a bargain not to be missed! The blood sprays, the swords clang and the spells explode. The animations are beautifully made and add a lot to both enjoyment and immersion. There is a verse in Homer's Iliad I love: "the warrior fell, his armor echoing around him" - and I was reminded of it many a times throughout the game. The game is now complete and it will stay with you for a very long time. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Wow You should take pity on my husband and kids... because when I got this game, it was fend for yourself. They ate a lot of hot dogs and mac & cheese because all I wanted to do was play this game. It didn't get better once I beat it, because the game is so darn re-playable, I played it through 3 more times! I bet I could play it through again and still find new dialog! I am telling you, buy this. I got it for the PC and bought all the DLCs as they came out and it was still beyond worth it. The graphics are great besides some armour clipping. The characters are so real and the voices are just AMAZING. I think I fell in love with Alistair! lol Anyway, you won't regret getting this. It didn't get game of the year for nothing... lol Great Game, but horrible DRM issues and poor tech support Unlike the other reviewer, I can't even enable any of the DLCs because of the silly DRM system in place. I originally bought DA:O and Awakenings for the Xbox 360. I loved DA:O, and have to say it one of the best RPGs in years. However, the limitations of the console versions had compared to the PC version were quite noticeable. But I didn't want to spend a ton of money to buy everything again individually. So I jumped at the opportunity to get the "Ultimate Edition" which promised all the official DLCs included with the original game + Awakenings. Although this content is already in the installation, I cannot actually enable it until I log in with my EA account. "Not a problem" I think to myself. Unfortunately, when I go to log in, I get the error message "EA servers no longer available." What??? I went to the forums and the official EA support board, and have not had a single response. I even looked at some older questions with the same problem, and no official answer. There are enormous amounts of users having problems with DLC. So far, only the forum users have come up with solutions, which are extremely complicated and involve going into the command console and messing around with the windows registry. Ugh. Seriously, if you are going to have DRM checks, CLEARLY LABEL IT on the box, and MAKE SURE IT WORKS, before you release it. This is the kind of frustration that drove me away from PC gaming in the first place. I am very upset with this purchase, and the complete lack of response from Bioware and EA support. Even though the writers and producers of this game made a very compelling story and enjoyable gameplay experience, the DRM has totally ruined it for me. I now understand all the anti-DRM hate. DRM only punishes and frustrates users who abide by the law and choose to give their money to game companies. I will no longer be buying any games with these DRM schemes.