EA's confirmed that the first Dragon Age expansion, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening is to be released in March. Full release follows...
EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Leading video game developer BioWare(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), announced today Dragon Age(TM): Origins - Awakening, the first official expansion pack to Dragon Age: Origins, the recent recipient of Spike TV's Best RPG and PC Game of 2009, IGN's Best RPG of 2009 and CNN.com's Best RPG of 2009. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening will be available for the Xbox 360(R) videogame and entertainment system, the PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system and PC on March 16, 2010.
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 will 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.
"Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening shows BioWare's commitment to our fans by delivering new story-driven experiences which enrich the dark heroic fantasy universe our fans have come to know and love," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Group General Manager of the RPG/MMO Group, EA, and Co-Founder, BioWare. "The vibrant worldwide community of Dragon Age fans will relish uncovering the secret motivations of the darkspawn, revealing how the darkspawn continue to infest the world despite the defeat of the Archdemon."
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, BioWare's next thread in the Dragon Age: Origins tapestry, occurs following the events of Dragon Age: Origins and puts players into the role of a Grey Warden Commander entrusted with rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens. In addition to rebuilding the ranks of the Grey Wardens, you will be tasked with uncovering the mystery of how the darkspawn survive after the slaying of the Archdemon. How players choose to rebuild their order, resolve the conflict with the mysterious "Architect," and determine the fate of the darkspawn are just some of the many intriguing moral choices that will shape each player's heroic journey. Players will be able to import their character from Dragon Age: Origins or start out as a new Grey Warden from the neighboring land of Orlais.
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening will be released March 16, 2010 worldwide on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 console and PC. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening will be available for $39.99 on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles in North America and will require Dragon Age: Origins to play. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening is rated M by the ESRB and 18+ by PEGI.
still haven't finished the original. Brilliant game though. the only stumbling block i can see to this is the price.oh yeah and the fact that i've already written off playing anything else other than FF XIII for the whole of march at least.
I just finished my first complete play through the other day and what a game "Dragon Age: Origins" is! I dare say it's the best game I've played in the past 10 years and it pushed some emotional "keys" inside of me that very few games, or books for that matter, ever do to that extent. Bring on the expansion pack (just make sure that it offers a lot more than the existing DLC)!
They should do as Rockstar did with GTAIV: better graphics with the expansions.
Dragon Age graphics are really bad on consoles. There is much room for improvement there.
I wish they could add co-op too, but I know that won´t happen.
I haven't played the console version of "Dragon Age: Origins" but I can inform you that the PC version has some very nice looking parts and others that look so-so. The up close in-game cut scenes (using in-game graphics,) look great in regards to the characters although the background textures are far from impressive in light of what other games have managed to pull off. Since "Dragon Age: Origins" was designed to lead on the PC that will probably give you a better experience both graphically and control wise; from what I've read of some console users' comments they have found the significantly smaller amount of available buttons frustrating at times for the controls.
I have still not bought this. I am waiting for a price drop but by the looks of things it may be worth waiting for a Game of the year edition that I am sure they will bring out.
wow bioware are busy puppies at the moment, now give me my return to ostagar please, im sure i can find a full 30 mins to play through it
this will be an essential purchase for me and its nice to see the best rpg i have ever played get a constant stream of expansions. japanese developers please note u can have an involving story that isnt totally linear jrpgs dont really have any role play, maybe we should just call them jgs??
Wow, really sounds like this expansion goes all out. New areas, level cap increase, yadda yadda. Personally I can't get enough Dragon Age@ Origins, such a great game. Bioware can keep throwing DLC at me, I'm fine with that.
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