May 13, 2012

Dragon Age: Origins

By: Thegreenback


Dragon Age is a epic save the world from destruction game. As a range of monsters called the "Blight" lead by the Arch-demon goes to kill everyone in their way.
You start by making your character giving you a list of different races to choose from. From being a normal human, elf and dwarf. Each race has a different abilities boost to their stats. Humans are a all around character as much of the world is also human you see how people react to you. Elves are a more magical intoned and a lot of people look down on them thinking they are inferior race. While the dwarves though small are sharp with their tongue and are know for making some of the best weapons around.
Then you can choose your class of a warrior, mage and rouge. Warriors are strong and using stamina can be put with a shield to be made into a damage taking tank, or a great sword to deal major damage. You can also get them into archery abilities so they have a lot of hit points and can deal damage from a distance. As they can switch weapons even in the middle of the fight for changing how the battle is turning out to be. A mage class is about magic with lots of abilities either to do a huge amount of damage to the enemies with your mana abilities. Giving you a wide range of helpful character to destruction making it how you want to choose your way of fighting. The rouge is a sneak class as you can flank an enemy to get extra damage and hide from them as well. They also are the only ones to be able to unlock chest and disarm traps. Deciding to use two handed fighting style to do quick attacks or even archery for the switch to hit far enemies. It may not seem like a lot to choose from but each class has 3 specialization classes to choose from when they reach a certain level. Each one you decide to be gives you a bonus stats boost and skills to that class have varied abilities unique only to that specialization. To change how you want the battle to play out or have a better party to help you out.
After choosing what you want to be class, race and looks it decides what role of the first personal story from one out of six you will be playing. Some you can decide what you want to be. To be drafted into the Grey Wardens to stop the Blight and fight for the people.
Leveling up you’re your players you can pick passive abilities to help you see what’s coming to how you talk to people getting more of an option of how to play the game. As some will need you to keep adding points to get the higher, stronger abilities.
The fighting style can be one sided from having lots of mages to do big area attacks, but not being able to take hits. You can also have warriors dealing attacks but not being able to heal without potions. So trying to find the middle ground up to the player of how he wants the party to be having up to four members. Able to switch between them at any point picking the ability or spell you want at that time or wanting them to attack a certain opponent. You can also pick the tactics you want to your party to have when you are not in the middle of a fight. Giving them a personal fighting style when you are not using them or using one of the lists the game already has available. As it can be a bit of a challenge making sure you all live. The bosses in the game are a range from to a band of thieves that want what you have to epic dragon battles that test the limits of your party swatting you around like your flies bothering it.
The story is a semi open world letting you go to where you want to start a story to have people help you battle to stop the Blight. Giving you a lot of choices of dialog and decision making options gives it a lot of replay value. You have quests and side quests with multiple endings or how you hold your party. By what you choose or do affects how your party sees you and will like or dislike making some more willing to help with you’re fighting or others might just leave and never come back. Also picking how you want to be will affect how saving the world happens some could be good and could come back to haunt you.
Some of the game has small glitches from a few items disappearing or that you will die a little faster then normal cause the health bar didn’t work just right. But all and all not many glitches to be seen in the game. As for the look of graphics can go from very nice to a cluster to look at.
Playing the game is very fun making you want to have the best party you can make. Wanting you find epic gear to take down anything that stands in your way. Boss battle can be hard and make you want to figure out how to take them down. Wanting you to pick the best skills and abilities to fit you fighting style as you level up through the game. So it’s a good game with a lot of replay value to see how things turn out. With a 6 different starting stories to what you pick for you character.
So I give the game 8.4 out of 10
~Thegreenback~

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