Dragon Age
This game will be filled with moral dilemmas, sophisticated combat, and plenty of quests for players to embark on. Hang on to your hats guys!Bioware has stated that the game’s plot will revolve around the fantasy genre, with players having the choice of a number of main characters to start out with when embarking on their journey. Each character comes from a different race, ranging from dwarves to humans to elves. Taking place in the world of Ferelden, players will take on the role of a newly enlisted Warden (a sort of paladin-like defence force), and find their land threatened by a massive orc-like horde referred to as The Blight. The developer has been quiet on details beyond this, but we expect to find out more about the various origin species players can become, and why these orcs want to destroy them.
As in many of Bioware’s past RPGs, players will be presented with a number of moral dilemmas in Dragon Age. These can range from relationship issues, to how to deal with prisoners. While past games by the developer have been a bit more in your face as to how they go about implementing this, here things seem a lot more subtle. The choices come up naturally in conversations, and what a player chooses to do will impact how other NPCs act toward them later on.
Combat will be party-based, with players being able to switch between the various characters in their group to perform specific tasks when necessary, sort of like the full version pc games we play. This has been pretty common to Bioware’s past RPGs, with the twist this time being that the user interface has an almost MMORPG quality to it. Basically, there are a selection of attacks, abilities, spells, and so forth along the bottom of the screen that players can choose from during battle.