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Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critics What's this?

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 62 Ratings

  • Summary: Dragon Age II: Legacy is the first major story-based DLC for the PS3, 360, and PC.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Aug 4, 2011
    85
    Legacy seems to have taken quite a few cues from Dragon Age: Origins when it comes to interesting settings, characters, and plot details and thrown them in with the fast paced action of Dragon Age 2.
  2. 70
    Legacy is fairly linear and only takes a few hours, but has some nice loot and a few side quests to tackle.
  3. Aug 14, 2011
    70
    For the price, it's not a bad addition, but as a fan of the game's narrative and someone who followed the 'press A until you're done' method of combat, there wasn't much for me. Fans of dungeons and battles will, of course, vary, so whether Legacy is worth your dollar depends very much on what parts of the game you enjoyed.
  4. Aug 2, 2011
    70
    The background story that unfolds in Legacy is interesting, but there just isn't enough new content in this 2-3 hour expansion to be worth the price tag.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 21
  2. Negative: 11 out of 21
  1. I thought Legacy was great. I mean, if you didn't like DA2, then your not going to like Legacy, as it's more of the same. But I loved DA2. I play on Nightmare difficulty, and it actually took me 7 hours to complete this dlc because the battles take so long on nightmare and because I did every sidequest. Legacy introduces some new enemies, develops the backstory of Hawke, Bethany, and Varric a little more, has an optional secret boss that is EXTREMELY difficult on the Nightmare difficulty, has a cool final boss, and has new weapons and armor. It if very linear in terms of the areas you explore, but that didn't bother me. Also, for those who were bothered by repeated environments in DA2, all environments in this new dlc are new. Expand
  2. Adds 2+ hours of gameplay that is unchanged from DA2, (good or bad depending on your opinion of the original), but for me the real draw for me was the story elements. While Malcolm Hawke's role was underplayed, it was great to see grey wardens get screen time, and learn about one of the more interesting evil characters that the series has put forth (similar to the architect from awakening but with a more interesting past.) combat was satisfying, conversation was great, and it was all in all a solid package from bioware. Expand
  3. Legacy includes some new enemies, 3 side-quests and a decent plot for the main quest. The DLC costs $10 for around 1-2 hours of gameplay. If you enjoyed Dragon Age II you might like this as well, but if you were disappointed with Dragon Age II than Legacy isn't for you. Expand
  4. 3
    The bad models and gameplay still infect what could have been a good DLC. Unless Bioware makes a real expansion that fixes some of the underlying problems of the sequel, this game will never be appreciated... rightfully so. Expand

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