Yep. Its finally time for the full game review! Now that I have accumilated over 100 hours of gameplay across my account, I think I can give you a fairly in depth review on Dragon Age: Origins.




Dragon Age: Origins has already been claimed to be one of the best RPGs of the decade by notable video game expert PC Gamer. And it simply is exactly that. I have played and found not a single detracting factor with the game in its entirety.

From a technical perspective, the game is not as demanding to run in order to get the best visual graphics. The difference between the medium to high texture details are very little, so all of those with older computers really need not worry. However, to fully enjoy the reality of Dragon Age (however paradoxical it may seem) I do strongly recommend that you play it on a stronger computer, and on a very big computer screen. And with surround sound speakers.. music in Dragon Age is key.

One of my personal favorite factors that strongly contribute to the game is the use of cinematic mocVery much like Mass Effect, Dragon Age allows the player to fully emerge themselves in the story through use of cinematic-esque co

However, technical aspects set aside... the storyline is Dragon Age's true magnum opus achievement. You start off the game with an impressive character creator, every facial feature can be edited, and yet a small downside is that you cannot change your physical appearance in terms of height, weight and size.. not that it really matters in terms of the storyline. Dragon Age allows you to choose between 3 races (the dwarves, the elves and the humans) and obviously each race has both genders. Class wise Dragon Age may seem limited as there are only three classes (warrior, rogue and mage), however, as you progress through the game and storyline you are able to vary your class through choice of specializations in which you can choose two of the four per class. But lets also not forget that each class by itself has a lot of skills to choose from, the warrior class has the general warrior talent, archery, two-handed weapons and sword and shield to chose from. There are also six different origin stories to pick from depending on race, if you choose to be a human warrior or rogue you are limited to the Human Noble Origin, while if you chose to be a mage from any race, you will have to go through the Mage Origin story at the Circle of Magi... Dragon Age is really not a slow starting game, right from the start of each story you are thrown into the ring with the Darkspawn....And I will continue more on that later

- Joachim