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Dragon Age: Origins PlayStation 3
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Metascore
87 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 41 Critics What's this?

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7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 364 Ratings

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  • Summary: As the spiritual successor to BioWare's "Baldur's Gate", one of the most successful role-playing games in the industry, Dragon Age: Origins represents BioWare's return to its roots, delivering a fusion of the best elements of existing fantasy works with stunning visuals, emotionally-driven narrative, heart-pounding combat, powerful magic abilities and credible digital actors. The spirit of classic RPGs comes of age, as Dragon Age: Origins features a dark and mature story and gameplay. 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. Players develop their characters and gain powerful special abilities (spells, talents and skills) and discover ever-increasing weapons of destruction. 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. Players 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 determines 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. [BioWare]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 41
  3. Negative: 0 out of 41
  1. Cynamite
    100
    Truly epic single-player RPG with a compelling story.
  2. Giant Bomb
    100
    This is definitely not the game for those frightened of the idea of micromanaging a game to the point where a large portion of it will be spent in a pause screen. However, as the sort of guy that has lovingly played an Infinity Engine game at least once every year for the past decade, I can think of no higher praise for this throwback than to say that Dragon Age: Origins leaves me feeling fairly confident I won't need to dig out the classics for this ritual next year.
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    70
    Then there's the combat, which just isn't fun at all. [Christmas 2009, p.104]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 75
  3. Negative: 10 out of 75
  1. AlphaLlama
    9
    The story, the setting, the characters and the gameplay are fantastic i actually couldnt stop playing it. Its like a book you cant put down until you know what happens next… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. ElectricPhase
    6
    Really, really needs a patch. PS3 version has multiple problems, including one well documented game breaking bug. Bioware appears to have abandoned development in favor of the execrable Dragon Age 2. A successful patch would earn this game an '8', but that's probably a pipe dream at this juncture.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. sityoazzdown
    1
    This was by far the worst game I have played on ps3 to date. It's just not very entertaining in every aspects. The graphics was horrible, this game is ps2 quality. I played a few hours and my face was -_-; the story was crap, the characters made me not care. ughh… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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