Dragon Age Origins

Greetings, Dragon Age: Origins is the start of another epic game series of Bioware. Other Bioware games I have reviewed include Jade Empire and all Mass Effect stories, which all deserved the reward of Super duper fantastic 100% the best reward, as does Dragon Age. They just bring their games to perfection with gripping storylines, difficult decisions, stunning graphics and creating interesting characters that the player cares for. This was evident in my first Bioware game, Jade Empire and has continued to exist in each game of theirs I have played since. The music also creates the atmosphere and weld it with the storyline brilliantly.

Dragon Age: Origin’s plot will differ slightly from each class and species the player chooses. I had chosen a Dalish elf warrior and named him Falc. My story began with Falc and his comrade Tamlen exploring an ancient cave, eventually discovering a tainted mirror. The mirror was touched by Tamlen and the interaction with it caused my character to fall unconscious as it released energy, he had woken up in camp having been rescued by a Grey Warden named Duncan. The mirror left Falc wounded with Darkspawn taint and Tamlen was missing so my character had lead a search to find him but returned with nothing. In order to survive the taint, Falc left with Duncan to try to become a Grey Warden.

 The Grey Wardens exist to prevent the Darkspawn from carrying out their instincts, they are twisted creatures who seek to find old Dragons and raise them to begin a Blight. A Blight is when the Darkspawn attack civilisations together as armies, therefore threatening every species existence. A dragon named the Archdemon was found and plans to conquer Ferelden , where the story is set. Falc manages to pass the trial to become a Grey Warden, who are limited in number. However attempts to wipe out large numbers of Darkspawn results in the battle of Ostagar, in which Duncan is killed as well as the current King due to the betrayal of an old hero called Loghain, who seeks Ferelden’s throne for himself.

Falc and another Grey Warden named Alistar begin to destroy the oncoming Blight , recruiting interesting company during the process. It is a brilliant game and is helped by the fact that the player can shape their character with the decisions they made, this is the same with my character Andrew in Jade Empire and Commander andy Shepard in Mass Effect. I look forward to the other games coming out in this series. The ninth episode of the adventures of Fletch and Roman are up in Warehouse 17.

Plot=10/10

Characters=10/10

Graphics=10/10

Overall=10/10

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