This article is guest-posted by Jovy Soriano, who I recently featured in my Gamer Profile section. Jovy’s also one of my mods, an elite privileged few tasked to maintain order at my Facebook Fan Page
I opened guest posting in my blog in order to develop young talent, to help them harness their writing skills and for them to share their knowledge and talent to the entire world (and the whole geek/gaming community).
Nice work here by Jovy as she reviews a game she recently played. I also played this game and it’s one awesome Fantasy adventure.
Without further ado…
Dragon Age Origins Review – By Jovy Soriano
From the creator of Mass Effect™, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™ and Baldur’s Gate™, comes an epic tale of Violence, Lust and Betrayal. One of the most outstanding RPGs of all time, none other than the truly epic fantasy adventure of Dragon Age: Origins (DAO), no wonder BioWare has once again struck RPG Gold according to Game Pro, other Professional Gaming Sites and of course the players. Dragon Age: Origins was released November 3, 2009, but it’s better to be late than never. It’s available on PC, Play Station 3 and Xbox 360. (Note: RPG OF 2009, I’m sure you get the picture.)
The game has mature content preferably for 17 years old above, it has Blood and I mean Pool of Blood, Intense Violence and Language, Partial Nudity and Sexual Content, but how can you resist playing this awesome game? It’s one of the most realistic games I’ve ever played and you’ll be playing, LOL! You’re probably thinking, “nah!?, It’s just like other RPG’s..” You’re right! In which the normal case we play the hero, save the princess, save the world and save the day! It’s getting lame right? But Dragon Age: Origins is a lot different from them. In this game, you’ll be the writer of your own story.
What are we expecting?
The game was set in the Kingdom of Fereleden, one of the several Kingdoms in the continent of Thedas. We have three different races in the game, the Elves, Dwarves and of course the Humans. You’ll be choosing your character including its Gender, Race, Job Class and Background.
Remember that some races are restricted for some job class, example a dwarf can never be a mage and if you’ll be playing the game you’ll learn why it’s not possible. It also incorporates “Origins” to what background and race your character came from, let’s say you choose to be a Noble Dwarf, you’ll start as a son or a daughter of a Royal Family, but if you choose to be a Commoner Dwarf, you’ll start in the streets of commoner in Orzanmar (City of Dwarves). Your origins will determine the background story of your desired character and will be your official start to the main story, but don’t ever underestimate this thing because it will consume you gaming hours and the best part is, it will be your identity throughout the entire game. As for my game, I chose to be a Female Human Mage and started as an apprentice of higher knowledge.
By the way, I’m sure you have an idea on how Skill Points and Status Points work, right? Well in this game, you can allocate those, and you can even put them in your hot key bar just like in my screenshot fighting with the Dragon. I almost forgot to mention that when you advance in the game, you can later choose a Specialization Job Class for your character? And that’s for you to find out, how? 
Now you’re probably thinking, “You talk too much! How the hell it’s different from other RPG’s?” Did I mention, you’ll be the writer of your own story, well not literally? There are two things that makes it original from other RPG’s, one is the Background of your character as you’ve read few seconds or minutes ago. Second is the Moral Choices, not like a normal moral choices in some other video games in which you’ll be given an option of a “yes” or a “no”, and to whatever you’ve decided the outcome will just be the same in the end. You’ll be getting a lot of cut scenes with moral choices in the game and these choices is for you to decide thus will be shaping the whole story of your adventure, just imagine it.
Just a piece of advice, don’t expect an average Hack and Slash game. In DAO, you have to use your brain before you engage in a battle and use strategies in order to be victorious. And no matter how strong you think you are, you’re never going to be imba! That’s one of the big challenges in the game.
Added Adventures
BioWare loves DLC (Downloadable Content) as well as the players, I guess for marketing purposes if you know what I mean. Not only for that, but for the very reason that they want their players to love the game even more and they don’t want their avid fans to lose interest in the game before the new series comes out. They also release newest expansion of the game, the Dragon Age: Origins Awakening that was release March 16, 2010. Lots of DLC’s has been release after the game launching but the latest DLC would probably be the Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles just this last May 18, and I bet there’s more to come. These DLC’s and Expansions will be added to your adventure and will be the answers to your questions, if you’ve happen to play the game though.
Thanks 4 Reading!
Thanks to BioWare for making great games. Thanks to GMT for this guest-posting opportunity and for My Gamer Profile, I owe you big-time Sir. And if you have any questions, inquiries about the game don’t hesitate to ask me, I’m just a whisper away. Don’t forget to drop by at my blog site Gamer+Citadel for the latest video games, news, reviews and trailers. And Before I forgot, click this link for the official Dragon Age: Origins This is War Music Video Trailer. Try not to get too pumped up, okay! *wink*
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Thanks Jovy for a wonderful article. Thanks also for being active in my Facebook page and being a great friend.
Yours,
GM T
