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Dragon Age Awakenings PC
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- Experience additional spells, abilities, specializations, and items to further personalize and customize your hero and party ? Import your character from Dragon Age: Origins or start anew as a Grey Warden from Oralais.
- Embark on an epic story that is completely defined and reactive to your play style ? Shape your entire experience based on the choices you make and how your handle complex situations.
- Encounter five all-new party members and an old favorite from Dragon Age: Origins.
- BioWare?s deepest universe to date just got bigger with an all new area of the world to explore, Amaranthine ? Unlock the secrets of the Darkspawn and their true motivations ? Rebuild the Grey Warden order.
- Battle against a new range of horrific and terrifying creatures ? Put your skills to the test against an evolved, intelligent breed of Darkspawn and other menacing creatures including the Inferno Golem, Spectral Dragon and others.
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about 5 months ago
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Know what you get, and what you don’t.
NO ROMANCE / NO DLC USAGE / NO REPLAYABILITY
To date, I’ve invested more than 150 hours in Dragon Age. I bought all the DLC. For me, all Bioware games are Must-Play. But I can’t make the argument that Awakening is Must-Own. It all depends on what you care about. Bioware games work on four pillars. Story World. Level-up System. Romance. Replayability. Awakening has two of the four. By 25% more Dragon Age, I expect to get 35 hours out of Awakening. Three play throughs, about 12 hours each. Warrior, mage, thief. I don’t count that at as full replayability. I expect to get 6-8 play throughs for a Bioware game. Awakening doesn’t let you use any of your DLC. Awakening has no romance. No old romance. No new romance. With no romance and no dlc and no full replayability, I consider Awakening 50% of a Bioware experience.
5-STAR BIOWARE STORYTELLING / LEVEL-UP TO 35
The same writers, the same artists, the same level of excellence. If you understand what you’re getting, Awakening is easy to love. New quests are fun. Meeting new characters are fun. It’s bittersweet that you don’t get to continue with your old companions, but that’s part of the emotional experience. You have to imagine making leather-bikini love to Morigan in that secret part of your mind while you’re splattering fresh darkspawn blood. Or you can treat this mission as optional, and never make the trip. It’s your Fantasy. You don’t have to play it. You don’t have to buy it. You don’t have to give Bioware your money.
FOR ME, IT’S A MUST-PLAY. FOR WHAT IT IS, IT’S AWESOME.
about 5 months ago
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I want to make that distinction very clear. I know “Awakening” is sold as a stand-alone as well as expansion pack. If I hadn’t played “Origins”, I’d be a bit disappointed in this game.
But as a continuation of the original game, I think it’s just about as good as it gets.
There’s a lot of story to play here, particularly if you do all the side quests. I’m also the kind of player who takes his time and enjoys the scenery, and I have to say that the scenery in the DA games is rendered simply beautifully.
True, there’s no romance sub-plot.
But hey! You’re on a “business trip” to the hinterlands! Are you really the kind of guy or gal who cheats on their One True Love from the original game when you’re out of town?
Everything from the original game transferred over just fine for me: inventory, gold, XP, rank, skills, the whole shebang.
I went back to my last save from the original game (that’s the source if you use your original character), went to camp and stripped everything from everybody — which is fine, because those who do show up in this game are re-equipped with their own stuff (they won’t be showing up in their undies) — and sold what I didn’t want in this game to the merchant in camp, got some serious coin for it (which transferred), kept the rest in my inventory (which also transferred), and voila!
I’m having a blast playing this expansion; you should, too.
about 4 months ago
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Good game. Even after playing it twice I would still buy it again. No Romance option, but ah well.
about 4 months ago
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I have not enjoyed a game so much in many years. When I learned of the expansion pack I picked it up right away and played it through within a week. Some might say it is too short but with the quality of the game I think this expansion is more than worth its price.
about 4 months ago
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This game is a pretty good game. The graphics are great and I got my brother to go out and get the game for xbox360 after I played it on my laptop.
about 4 months ago
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Once I got past the fact that most of my original companions from DAO would not be returning for the expansion, although there are cameos, I really enjoyed this game. The new archery skills absolutely rock, and it will be interesting to see if these new abilities transfer back into the original game when I replay it. The runecrafting system, including the ability to add defense enhancing runes to armor was fun to work with. The digital sets were very impressive, and I loved taking on those darkspawn as I descended those immense spiral staircases. I love the use of tactics, especially when it comes to stacking abilities and spells in a way that if one is clever enough, will allow him or her to dominate the game even on nightmare mode.
about 4 months ago
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Good follow up to the original game. New levels with new content, new land, and new monsters with a twist. Plot had some nice twists to it as well. Some interesting an intense boss fights as well. Well done and can’t wait for another big expansion.
Would be great if they would add a multi-player feature to this game where you could co-op in a party with friends.
about 4 months ago
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Great extension to an already great game. The only difference is that you have a new set of characters to play with.
about 3 months ago
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I wish I could write areviewof this game, I have orderedit from two separate vendors atAmazon, and neither one was delivered. Oh, I was covered by the A To Z Guarantee, but I havebeen waiting for over two months to get this product. If I ever do get a copy, I will gladly review it.
about 3 months ago
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The Awakening expansion for Dragon Age is nothing short of awesome. It makes you feel like you’ve picked up where you left off in Dragon Age, allowing you to even import your main character from the previous campaign.
As far as the gameplay is concerned, it is the same great Dragon Age, but it has an entirely different feel than Origins in that you’re starting from level 20 so you have lots and lots of abilities to play and work with. There is also a large increase in the number of sustained abilities that one can utilize. This can be quite effective when you start stacking auras and/or sustained abilities. Consequently, Willpower becomes a sought after statistic in order to actually utilize the plethora of abilities at your disposal. Fighting itself is more intense and some of the new abilities, like Massacre, are extremely entertaining.
I play on Nightmare difficulty and I found Awakening to be easier than regular Origins for two reasons: the first is because there are so many more abilities to work with and the second is because there are books that one can buy for 12 gold to customize characters’ abilities entirely from level 1. This allows you to craft your group to have an unmatched synergy. It also allows for trying new and different tactics / builds with your characters. Unfortunately, the ease of play also means that you breeze right through the game, so it can feel rather short in comparison to the monster that was Origins.
The group and party dynamic feels different in Awakening as well. To gain approval rating, you have to have a member present in your party and happen by some object in the terrain that invokes a conversation. This means you can’t just spam-talk to your party members to gain approval like you could in regular Origins.
Finally, the storyline is fantastic and Awakening does a great job of bringing good moral choices to the forefront, setting new standards for games. In Origins, despite all of the different factions and gray areas, there was still the feeling of “good” verses “evil” when it came to you verses the darkspawn. Without spoiling anything, Awakening does an excellent job of turning this polarized standard on its head and it even brings the darkspawn themselves into the gray. The questions it forces one to ask and the choices it causes one to make imitate moral choices in real life instead of keeping the polarized fantasy outlook that so many of us are familiar with. It is refreshing and it really puts a huge twist on the storyline, making one question their own purpose as a sort of hero of Ferelden. I do feel it could have been explored a bit more and perhaps the ending was a bit rushed in its conclusions, but I’m sure we can look forward to exploring that storyline further in the next expansion.
For those more interested in the character development aspect that is present in Origins, while some of the basics still remain in Awakening, Awakening is more fighting and less songs by the fire. Even still, I don’t think it will disappoint as the loads of action can make up for it.
In short, if you loved Dragon Age, Awakening is a must have and it is a blast to play.