bit-tech News: Dragon Age: Origins hands-on preview

news · February 10, 2009

Hi all,

We have just published a hands-on preview of *Dragon Age: Origins*. If

you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

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*/In fact, when you get right down to it, BioWare's latest RPG epic is

so strikingly similar to its previous games that it's hard to find many

faults with it. It's a tad formulaic in presentation obviously, but it's

a formula that BioWare has got down to an absolute tee. The last half

dozen games the company has made may be fundamentally very similar, but

they're also undeniably very good too.

The one flaw that we might struggle to raise with //Dragon Age: Origins

is that it's just a little bit too similar to BioWare's past greats --

to the extent that it's starting to become predictable how little we

have to worry about the quality of the game.

In our time with the game we got a chance to look at two very specific

quests we've promised not to give specifics on, but we will say that

they felt very familiar. Aren't these the same werewolves we killed in

//Icewind Dale? Wasn't this tower in //Throne of Bhaal too? Much of what

we saw didn't feel totally new, rather it was just redecorated.

We liked //Dragon Age: Origins an awful lot. Already we can tell that

it's shaping up to be a fantastically balanced and well written game and

we don't doubt that we'll sink countless hours into it and that we'll

still be playing it in years to come -- just like we do with BioWare's

other games./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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