Dragon Age: Origins - Playstation 3

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Epic Party-Based Combat - Dragon Age - Origins introduces an innovative, scalable combat system, as players face large-scale battles and use their party's special abilities to destroy hoardes of enemies and massive creatures.
• Powerful Magic - Raining down awesome destruction on enemies is even more compelling as players apply spell combos, a way of combining together different spells to create emergent unique effects.
• Deep Customization - Players will develop their characters and gain powerful special abilities (spells, talents and skills) and discover ever-increasing weapons of destruction.
• Your Story, Your Way - With its emotionally compelling story, players choose with whom they wish to forge alliances or crush under their mighty fist, redefining the world with the choices they make and how they wield their power.
• Origin Stories - Players will select and play a unique prelude that provides the lens through which the player sees the world and how the world sees the player. The player's choice of Origin will determine who they are and where they begin the adventure, as they play through a customized story opening that profoundly impacts the course of every adventure.

Product Details

• ASIN: B0029ZUPU4
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: Electronics
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,110 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #48 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Role-Playing

Product 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game, worth adding to your collection, December 26, 2010

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Chelsea Stellato - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dragon Age: Origins - Playstation 3 (Electronics)

As a pretty casual gamer, I thoroughly enjoyed Origins - The controls are easy to master, and the combat system isn't too complicated. I think the only qualm I had about the combat system was only having 6 shortcut slots for a multitude of spells. Granted, they give you like a shortcut for your spellbook, but I thought it was a little annoying flipping through it trying to find the right spell or ability. For the more experienced players, however, this might not even be a problem. For combat, you're also able to set up specific combat tactics for each of your party members, or you have the choice of cycling through your party members during combat to use their abilities. Not only does this give you more control, but also lets you 'try out' other classes than your own.

One of the best features of the game is being able to interact with party members and other NPC's and influence how they feel about your character. For me, this was the first time I have come across such a feature, and it definitely gives a whole new depth to the RPG experience. The replay value is pretty decent, as well, since there are many different classes and back stories to choose from, as well as specific class configurations, et cetera. Also, you are able to interact differently with NPC's the next time around, and some might even act differently towards you depending on which race and back story you choose.

Overall, I feel like the game was pretty linear. While you could revisit places you have been to before, however, I personally didn't see much of a point (unless I had forgotten something or had a side quest) since the enemies don't respawn, and there is hardly a need for "grinding" in the game. (The lack of respawning also limits the amount of loot/gold you can get throughout the game as well).

As far as the story goes, I liked it a lot and felt like it had enough depth to it - It's also nice to be able to talk to your party members about their own personal stories. There are lots of other little great things about the game that I haven't mentioned, like the professions/secondary abilities or the little tidbits of lore you can collect, etc.

Great game, I thought it was worth the purchase! :)

1.0 out of 5 stars bad game great condition, January 22, 2012

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GUILLERMO CORDOVA (FRANKLIN, NC, US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Dragon Age: Origins - Playstation 3 (Electronics)

the game was a gift but lord this game was so slow to start. not the sellers fault,it was the creators.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Game!, February 19, 2011

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S. Randall "S.L.R" (Roswell, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dragon Age: Origins - Playstation 3 (Electronics)

Having been an avid player of Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights way back when, I was really excited about Dragon Age! It definitely does not disappoint! This game was super fun, I loved the story and the gameplay. Definitely invest in this one, it'll be a worthy addition to your game collection!