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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 34 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. ZTGameDomain
    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. Cheat Code Central
    88
    Though there's not nearly as much content as the first go-round, there's still an awful lot to love.
  3. 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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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  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 available 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
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  2. Inuit_Dude
    9
    i have never played an expansion game before but this game has got me loonking for expansions of other games out there as well because it is so good. not much has changed in this game from origins but i love how the decisions you made in DAO affect gameplay and story in this game and it is also a blast to see that the story does not just end when you kill the arch demon and even though this is not a full game and just an expansion it is still long and you have lots to do and it also comes with a patch for the game which is a big help for those who cant get onto the internet with thier consoles (although those numbers are few). one of the only things i didnt like was that you could not talk to your companions whenever you want and you can't romace the characters either but other than that i cant really figure anything wrong with it and if you loved the first game this is defenatly a must have expansion… Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  3. 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
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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