Dragon Age: Origins

For those looking to truly immerse themselves into an RPG experience this is it. Combined with amazing visuals, unique combat settings and varied character building options. Players face a multitude of decisions that shape the storyline (sometimes more so than others) but at the very least change how your allies interact with you and even how they fight. I can admit that there were times I felt like I had to step away because I faced so much decision, but this is a testament to how emotionally engrossed the game kept me rather than seeming forced or excessive. Dragon Age - Origins is simply everything you want in a Fantasy-based RPG. It's a pleasure to both watch and play on the PS3. Here's my money, BioWare, take of it as you please provided games like this keep coming.

I stumbled upon Dragon Age: Origins with no knowledge of it at all. After playing for a few hours I was gripped by the compelling story lines and the VAST amount of depth.

At first I was taken back by the combat system. Combining real-time action with micro-management on the fly is truly brilliant. Once I got into the swing of things, I found myself strategically placing my ranged characters at a distance, while my rogue set traps at a doorway and my warrior lured enemies into an ambush. This game makes you think! Hack'n'slash'n'button bashing just doesn't cut it with Dragon Age. You must plan every single attack carefully, for the greatest effect. I'm over 100 hours in and I've barely even scratched the surface.

With the massively extensive customizability and official downloadable content, this game is going to be hanging around for a long, long time. Game developers owe a lot to the modding community for keeping their games shining, long after they're released. We can be sure set for some great mods and new quests to keep us glued to our screens for many months/years to come.

A must buy for any RPG fan. 10/10

Amazing! Diverse and unique locations, full customization of your entire squad, extensive dungeons with creative designs and enemies, an engaging story plot, companions with complex personalities and real weight in the story, and TONS of loot!

Dragon Age: Origins is an outstanding game on all levels, one of the best in recent years perhaps. If there was one thing that wasn't quite so good, it was that some of the outdoor background art were a little flat-looking. Other than that, the graphics were not bad at all despite the numerous criticism it has gotten on Amazon. The characters look well-modelled at least, the colours are atmospheric and help make the world and adventure believable and the voices do sync well with the lip movements. The music has moments where it is rousing and others where it's eloquent, overall it's well written and synchronises with everything with never a jarring note. The story is rich in detail and characterisation, totally immersive in its blend of fantasy, adventure and action and you are genuinely transported into the world the characters inhabit. The game play is varied and not overly-simplistic or overly-complex(even if at times Alistair was perhaps too easy to kill, but really that's part of the fun). What was also impressive was the balance of game play and story, they added so much to one another and there wasn't a time where there was too much or little of one. The writing and the voice acting stood out the most. The writing is incredibly intelligent and thought-provoking with some well-judged light-hearted humour for contrast, doing wonderfully in giving the characters distinctive personalities and emotional impact. The character interaction is strong and never stiff. And the voice work adds so much to those qualities, everybody is wonderful and nobody bad but in particular Kate Mulgrew is quietly firm and authoritative and Tim Curry has that subtle smarmy malevolence spot-on. All in all, an outstanding game. 10/10 Bethany Cox

What makes it remarkable for me is the way that it draws me into my characters and their relationships with his companions, with situations where I must chose what type of personality will that particular character have. And then I try to keep that character consistent with the chosen personality.

The amazingly constructed comedy, that put some people like me in stitches, to lighten a little a very dark and apocalyptic threat to the world that my characters are living in, the brilliant way that the story develops and throws consistent events that make sense considering all the lore of the world that has been presented and the progression of the tale, particularly in random encounters that are determined by the stage we are in the tale.

There is something really magic about DA, something that I simply had to try and capture. For me it was the first time that I felt compelled to make movies of a game and I have some 50 of them already. Because each moment in DA is unique. A battle will never be replayed the same way, the party chat will never occur in the same order, at the same place. For a particular moment in DA, there are possibly way more possibilities than I can calculate. While in other games that I love, including The Witcher and even Gothic, they all replay exactly the same. Not talking only about mechanics or the order we may choose to make those things happen. DA is Epic!

Oh, and I love Leliana so much! Thank you Corinne!!!