Description:
Dragon Age: Origins is the spiritual successor to BioWare's critically acclaimed Baldur's Gate, featuring deep character customization and role-playing, morally challenging decisions, tactical party-based combat, and a wealth of gritty, mature sub-plots. It is a dark, heroic fantasy game that combines original storytelling techniques with classic role-playing challenges. In Dragon Age, your choices change the world and affect the people around you. Certain situations, storylines, and conversation options will change drastically depending on your origin and your motivations. You choose your origin, and from that starting point, your story begins. You play through your character's early days, defining his or her background and motivation and begin to learn more about the world of Ferelden from your own distinct perspective. Your choice of origin defines how you will view the world and how it views you. Choose a sneaky, disrespected commoner and you will play a story that focuses around subtle skills and careful wordplay. Choose a noble origin and the world will be much more positive and helpful, but those jealous of your status will not be afraid to take what you have, violently if necessary. A massive compilation of role-playing adventures, the Ultimate Edition of Dragon Age: Origins contains the original game, the Awakening expansion pack, as well as a variety of additional DLC packs.
Gameplay:
The game incorporates "origins" for each race and some classes. For example, a dwarf noble begins the game as part of the royal family in one of the dwarven cities, whereas the dwarf commoner origin story begins on the streets of the city. Origin stories determine the background of the player's character prior to the main events of the game's story, forming an introduction to the world (and a gameplay tutorial) while also comprising hours of play. Events of an individual origin are reflected in the following game. Characters that the player meets during the origin story may reappear throughout the game, some as adversaries. There is no tracking of moral alignment as in previous BioWare games, but the moral choices of the player will still affect the story throughout the game. The player will accomplish the goal regardless of choosing to be good or evil, but the decisions that the player makes in the process will change the game world accordingly – deciding who will become king, for example, and affecting nations, races and their places in the world. These decisions will also influence the companion NPCs, possibly causing an NPC to leave the party or even attack the player if they disagree strongly with his or her actions.
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| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 90.17% (PC) |
| Metacritic | 91% (PC) 87% (PS3) 86% (X360) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 6/10 (X360) 8/10 (PC) |
| Game Informer | 9/10(PC) 8(PS360) |
| GameSpot | 9.5/10 |
| GamesRadar | 9 PS360, PC |
| IGN | 8.7 PS360 9 PC |
| Official Xbox Magazine (UK) | 8/10 |
| PC Gamer UK | 94% |
| PC Gamer US | 92% |
| RPGFan | 95% (X360) |
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows Minimum Recommended | ||
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows 7 | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Solo 1.6 GHz, (XP) or 1.8 GHz (Vista/Win 7), AMD Athlon 64 X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8 GHz, (XP) or 2.2 GHz, (Vista/Win 7) processor | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent, AMD Phenom II X2 Dual-Core 2.7 GHz or greater |
| Memory | 1 GB (XP), 1.5 GB (Vista/Win 7) | 2 GB (XP), 3 GB (Vista/Win 7) |
| Hard drive space | 20 GB | |
| Graphics hardware | ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater (XP), ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater, Intel x4500HD or greater (Vista/Win 7) | ATI Radeon HD 3850 512 MB or greater, NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater. |
| MacOS | ||
| Operating system | Mac OSX 10.6.2 Leopard or higher | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo processor | |
| Memory | 2 GB | |
| Hard drive space | 17 GB | |
| Graphics hardware | ATI X1600 or NVIDIA 7300 or greater | |
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