Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Announced - briefly
(hx) 06:31 PM CET - Jan,05 2010
BioWare today announced a Dragon Age: Origins expansion titled 'Awakening,' continuing the fantasy RPG's storyline with new areas, enemies, party members and more in March 2010. In something of an unusual move, EA's asking price for the expansion is $39.99, only $10 less that the regular price of the original PC game.
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.â€
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.
In Dragon Age related news, Bioware posted on their community site that the latest DLC for Dragon Age: Origins, Return to Ostagar, has been delayed with no ETA. Word is: "We’re sorry but the planned Return to Ostagar downloadable content scheduled to launch on January 5th has been delayed for all platforms. We will update you as new information becomes available."
last 10 comments:
TENGILL
(02:53 AM CET - Jan,06 2010 )
$39.99 = FAIL.
Right now members of the public are making content like this expansion that will be free.
This expansion should be priced at 19.99, or even 9.99.
I wont get it right away, ill wait for the price cut.
darknothing
(05:20 PM CET - Jan,06 2010 )
how many hours of game-play, need 40 or more for me to pay that price,
Tom
(07:50 PM CET - Jan,06 2010 )
It would be nice to know how many hours estimated but more than likely I'll buy it. The game rocks and it's the best RPG I've played in a long time.
quote TENGILL
Right now members of the public are making content like this expansion that will be free.
Ya whatever. The quality of this expansion will easily outweigh what some guy with no life can do in his bedroom.
Koogle
(10:57 PM CET - Jan,06 2010 )
"Right now members of the public are making content like this expansion that will be free.
Ya whatever. The quality of this expansion will easily outweigh what some guy with no life can do in his bedroom."
Tom stop being a moron, the quality of a FREE expansion will easily outweigh that of an entire paid development team with much more past experience of using said quite badly designed development tools. The price of this expansion doesn't seem to fit the content expansion, I'd want to see actual engine/game feature improvements for that price aswel. Price drop and it will be good.
And only just just started playing Dragons Age, its a pretty 'good' game, though I wouldn't say 'great' as quite frankly it still leaves a lot to be desired (though the addons and mod content I'm seeing now is good a sign). And when you play a game that has an NPC telling you about some other area you can go quest in.. but at the end of the conversation you find out that its premium content! that's just bullshit.
Anyway I'd like to see Mass Effect 2 being more expansible, as the original PC version was too consolized, thus crap.
Tom
(11:39 PM CET - Jan,07 2010 )
Whatever Koogle, you go with your acid trip mods, quest addons, I'll stick to the storyline and quality that comes from these guys. If it costs $40 oh well. I got a job and I have plenty to spend on games. I've already bought most of their DLC. I've also gotten most of the ones included on cd with games magazines I picked up.
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