Kirkwall feels a little unrealistic, gets a little samey
The hardest thing about playing Dragon Age 2 is that it sets itself up as a streamlined, blockbuster thriller of an RPG, only to bog you down in the city that doesn’t just sleep - it barely wakes up. For now this is just not the best Dragon Age we know...
Formulaic, uninspired and sorely lacking in invention, Dragon Age II is a disappointing instalment in a series that once seemed set to scale similar heights as its sci-fi stablemate. On this evidence, no chance. 7.3/10Print this pageComments (0)Share t...
Abstract: Tweet BioWare surprised at the end of 2009 with what seemed like a 3D version of its venerable dungeon crawling franchise, Baldur’s Gate. In reality it combined the same great storytelling and party-based combat found in its sci-fi epic, Mass Effect bu...
Abstract: Dragon Age II provokes conflicting emotions. On the one hand, BioWare’s flare for writing culminates in intriguing moral dilemmas and complex character relationships. On the other hand, flawed battle structures, rehashed dungeons and flat out bad desig...
Abstract: Dragon Age II is a pretty bold game. It’s not often that you see a sequel that’s willing to completely abandon all vestiges of the game that came before it, let alone shift the plot’s focus away from the events of its predecessor, but Dragon Age II man...
Dragon Age II is one of those games that manages to make several notable improvements over its predecessor while also managing to shoot itself in the foot along the way, and while it’s still a very good game, as the score says, it could have been bett...
Abstract: Marian Hawke -- refugee of Lothering, Champion of Kirkwall -- is a liar, a thief, and a murderer, a political sellsword for the powerbrokers of the Free Marches. Most Kirkwallers assume she is a lesbian after a brief affair with Isabella, a Rivaini p...
I struggle to say this, because Dragon Age: Origins was a contender for Game of the Year 2009 in my book, but its tepid and disjointed follow-up is nothing short of a disappointment. I hesitate to call it a terrible game as well, because it isn’t that...
