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Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening PC

Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: Mar 16, 2010
Also On: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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82 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critics What's this?

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7.1 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 135 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

Developer: BioWare
Genre(s): Role-Playing
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:

Positive: 36 out of 38
Mixed: 2 out of 38
Negative: 0 out of 38

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.

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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.

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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:

Positive: 17 out of 29
Mixed: 8 out of 29
Negative: 4 out of 29

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

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Eddyward

6

I was looking forward to a continuation of DAO, and Awakening wasn't bad. I did like the political parts of the game, and I wish there was more of them. The only noteworthy character was Anders and the rest were dull. I was disappointed that Awakening added nothing to the plot of DAO and didn't give any closure to the cliffhangers of DAO. I'm largely indifferent to this game. It wasn't great, but it could've been worse. I suppose Bioware just wants to give the player another view of the fantasy setting they're attempting to set up.… Expand

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5 of 5 users said yes
Stub

3

Unimpressive and underwhelming - does not 'expand' on anything. BioWare should let the design department design the game, not a committee of producers, writers, and marketing executives. This franchise is well on its way to ignominy. The quests are unbelievably mundane - now a BioWare tradition it would seem. Converations overly verbose. Unnecessarily long and pointless cutscenes. The new items are game-breakingly overpowered.… Expand

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1 of 5 users said yes