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82 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 148 Ratings

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  • Summary: Designed and written by the same team that brought you Dragon Age: Origins, the Awakening expansion pack offers a brand new area of the world to explore known as Amaranthine, featuring an epic story that will allow players to unravel the secrets of the darkspawn - and their true motivations! Players face a range of horrific and terrifying creatures including an evolved, intelligent breed of darkspawn and other menacing creatures such as the Inferno Golem and Spectral Dragon. Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening provides exciting new ways for players to customize their heroes and party, including the ability to re-spec their character attributes, allowing even greater customization and replayability. Featuring an increased level cap, new spells, abilities, specializations and items, plus five all-new party members, players can continue their adventures from Dragon Age: Origins, or begin with a brand new character. [BioWare]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. The Escapist
    100
    It admirably accomplishes what an expansion is supposed to do, and doesn't in any way diminish what made the great one of the best RPGs ever made.
  2. Computer Games Online RO
    91
    The attention to detail is impressive, even if we're talking about the floating boats in the ethereal realm or just the white dragon bones. And BioWare sprinkled some new enemies into the expansion.
  3. Metro GameCentral
    70
    A competent but relatively unambitious expansion that adds plenty of new content but no new ideas.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 30
  3. Negative: 4 out of 30
  1. JoshT
    9
    I've played 4 days of DAO Awakening so far (about 25 hours). I enjoyed the original DAO (dragon age origins) and I'm loving this expansion just as much. The game entails a lot of good humor and ironies throughout the story line just as in the original DAO. All the detail that is put into the game is remarkable. If you loved DAO, you will love DAO Awakening. The new class abilities are pretty interesting too and allow you to have more buttons to press during combat. I'll make another review when i finish the game. Good so far though.… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. arth
    5
    This expansion is to Dragon Age: Origins like Icewind Dale is to Baldur's Gate II. It's a severe dumbing down for the console players. NPCs have become more one-dimensional, gone are the romance options and in-depth dialogues, and poor Oghren suffers the same fate as Gimli, in that he's now only comical relief, and not someone you feel with. You also get stuck a LOT in this expansion -- on roots, buildings, and pieces of air. And have to wait around for minutes after a kill before loot shows up. Speaking of loot, "Awakening" is one monty haul after another, where after an hour of playing, your new weapons and armor will remove all challenge from the rest of the game. This is especially true if you plonk a couple of points down on the new rune system, and actually figures out how to use it. (It's not explained). Cause armor now comes with three slots. All that said, the expansion isn't all bad. But to ask $40 for it is pure unadulterated greed. The combination of Warden's Keep, Stone Prisoner and Return to Ostagar costs less than half of this, and gives you far more for your money. Like characters you actually can TALK with, and not just dumb marvel-like tanks.… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  3. syrik
    0
    I LOVED origins. Loved it. I loved it so much as soon as I finished it I made a new character and played it again as something different. Then I got to Awakenings....wow, really? It took me three tries to get into it because of the BUGS ( OH MY GOD, SO MANY) and the HUGE story hole right in the beginning. I won't spoil too much, but....suddenly the secret Warden ceremony, remember that? Well it's not so secret anymore and what a joke. I lost all faith in the story from that point and it does get worse. On my third attempt to get through this xpac during the quest in the forest there is a bug where you can lose all of your gear. It is deleted. I'm serious. In fact, now I'm angry about that again and gonna lower this score to 0, it was 3 because the graphics and new spells are good. But, the bugs, oh god the bugs.… Expand
    • 1 of 5 users said yes

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