Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening PlayStation 3
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80 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 40 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: 19 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. ZTGD
    90
    Awakening is definitely a nice companion for those that have exhausted the original game. There is plenty here to keep you occupied for at least 20 hours if you want to max everything out. Some may be a bit disappointed in the size by comparison, but for $40 this game is twice as long as most full-priced titles.
  2. Digital Chumps
    86
    There's plenty of improvement from Bioware here, but more importantly the story continues and it's still a fun ride. If you liked the first then you'll like the expansion pack.
  3. IGN
    85
    It has a strong narrative connection to the original game, but the sense that your previous choices matter isn't as strong as we'd have liked. I still miss the old companions, but the new characters are just as interesting once you get to know them.
  4. GameZone
    70
    The new content does its job of keeping the appeal factor high, but the bugs, lack of story depth and uninteresting characters don’t exactly invite in newcomers.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. pyrocloud7
    9
    Awakening Specific:
    For an expansion pack you get a lot of depth and about 20 hours plus of playtime if you choose to do everything that is av    ailable to you. The plot in awakening is not as well developed as it's longer origins predecessor, but the story is fantastic, and world-changing.

    Dragon Age In General:
    In my own opinion this is the number one RPG to date. I personally love the console version controls as opposed to the PC controls. Bioware has always delivered strong games, but the story as well as the vastness of the universe are just amazing. The only complaint I have for Dragon Age: Origins is with the technical issues. A few minor frame rate issues and bugs, as well as a large loophole in the import system from Origins to Awakening, are the only things stopping Dragon Age from getting a solid and undeniable 10/10.    … Expand
  2. aadms
    8
    First game I ever had that I was able to import a character from. For $40 it was a nice expansion story to tie me over until Dragon Age III comes out when the saga continues. I didn't like that you couldn't just engage in conversations with your companions like the first game and I thought the rune making part of the game was very poorly thought out. But overall, it's more of the same Dragon Age that I loved from the first game. And that's a winning formula.… Expand
  3. peroxxi
    7
    Nice expansion. A lot of quests, characters, things to do and great fun. It worths every single cents. Just like the old expansion pack of once (Baldur's Gate).… Expand
  4. Nullblade
    2
    Okay, enough is a enough. Stop the **** Bioware. Bioware is the ultimate ****. I loved neverwinter nights and neverwinter nights 2, as well as jade empires. But i have to call **** on dragon age, It sucks all the way round. Want a cool fantasy world to imagine? FAIL. It is the most re-chewed Tolkien world around. Want a new RPG with interesting game mechanics, **** that, if all your characters are fighters you win. If you ever wanted some racial or class that you are to matter,nevermind... Speaking of which, if you think any of biowares ideas are new read a ****ing book. This is a sad ****ing nuance for fantasy fans. You would be better off playing NWN for the 10th time, more fun.… Expand

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