Dragon Age Origins *

Wow! What a crapfest! I wet myself in anticipation for this game for 3 straight months. The reviews were all good, the gameplay looked fantastic so I scrimped and saved for it and all I can say is DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY! If you like games with a LOT of talking This is your game. But if you like playing your vidiogames this is not for you. Im 3 hours into it and 15 of those minutes have been easy battles, with 1/2 hour or so wandering arround looking for my quests as the quest marker will not appear unless you are on the map that the quest is on. So if you don know what map you are suposed to be on you are screwed. Also note that I use the term "quest" lightly. Most of these "Quests" have been talking to people. Now dont get me wrong, the conversations give you a ton of choices as to what to say (well 4 things to say and 2 paths to take depending on what you say) and what you say affects the story, but just go get yourself a pick your own adventure book instead of this game.

There is not even an open world. You travel from city to city with random enemy battles rarly thrown inbetween citys. That makes a large portion of the game looking at loading screens. And if thats not enought loading screens the auto save feature kicks in between groups of badguys. So you only get badguys an rare occasions, just to have the action broken up again for a saving screen. Than being said, the combat and abilitys are fantastic for the brief moment you get to use them.

To add insult to injury there is word that they will be charging us in the future for a download to enable multiplayer mode in a game designed for and advertised to be for 4 players. Also the game had additional content avalable for purchase one day BEFORE the game came out. I dont know about you, but if the content is avalable at launch it should be avalable on the disk. Added content is intended to add to the game after you have had a chance to play the existing content. But it has turned into a way gor greedy mony grubbing game desighners like EA and Lion Head to squeese every penny you have by selling you content that would normally come packaged with the game.

CLOSING REMARKS:

Audio is average

Graphics are a bit below average with steller cut sceenes

Game Play is fantastic when you get to it but its mostly non existant

This is a game to avoid at all costs. A good replacement game is probably Skyrim