| Dragon Age: Origins Awakening | 
| From: Electronic Arts
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Rating:  65 reviews
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Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
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MPN: 19398
Model: 19398
UPC: 014633193985
EAN: 0014633193985
ASIN: B003336KG4
Publication Date: May 28, 2010
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| • | Experience additional spells, abilities, specializations, and items to further personalize and customize your hero and party ? Import your character from Dragon Age: Origins or start anew as a Grey Warden from Oralais. | | • | Embark on an epic story that is completely defined and reactive to your play style ? Shape your entire experience based on the choices you make and how your handle complex situations. | | • | Encounter five all-new party members and an old favorite from Dragon Age: Origins. | | • | BioWare?s deepest universe to date just got bigger with an all new area of the world to explore, Amaranthine ? Unlock the secrets of the Darkspawn and their true motivations ? Rebuild the Grey Warden order. | | • | Battle against a new range of horrific and terrifying creatures ? Put your skills to the test against an evolved, intelligent breed of Darkspawn and other menacing creatures including the Inferno Golem, Spectral Dragon and others. |
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Dragon Age Awakenings PC
Amazon.com Product Description
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening for PC is the first expansion to the award-winning single player RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Developed by role-playing game (RPG) specialists, BioWare, Awakenings is a standalone expansion, meaning that ownership of the original game is not necessary, although players of the original game are afforded the choice of utilizing their character from the original game or starting with a fresh character. Additional features include an expanded storyline, new creatures, locations and more. Story
For centuries, the Grey Wardens — the ancient order of guardians sworn to unite and defend the lands — have battled the darkspawn forces. Legend says that slaying the Archdemon would have put an end to the darkspawn threat for centuries to come, but for all the Grey Wardens' vigilance, somehow the creatures remain. But there is a new spark of hope. You are the Grey Warden Commander and have been entrusted with the duty of rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens and uncovering the secrets of the darkspawn and how they managed to remain. How you choose to rebuild your order, how you resolve the conflict with "The Architect", and how you determine the fate of the darkspawn will be but some of the many complex choices that await and shape your journey as you venture to the new land of Amaranthine. 
Powerful new new characters to utilize.
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New creatures of the dark.
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And creatures of the light.
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Brand new game environments like Virgil's Keep.
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As with the original Dragon Age: Origins game, the Awakening expansion is a single player RPG in which the path of a player's created hero is determined through a combination of ongoing actions throughout the game and the character's particular backstory, known as an Origin Story. Origin Stories relate primarily to the combination of the chosen race of the character and that individual's socioeconomic status. For example, a player who favors a Dwarfish character may have a variety of options, including the choice of being a commoner or a noble. As the character progresses through the game he will interact with any number of non-player characters (NPCs) who may have a particular opinion of Dwarves which may or may not be altered by the fact that the character is of noble or commoner status. These built-in impressions, blended in real-time with the character's interactions and choices alter the hero's personal path and eventually the outcome of the events of the game. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening is a standalone expansion, meaning that ownership of the original Dragon Age: Origins game is not necessary for play. That said, players of the previous game are afforded the added benefit of importing their character from the original game to continue that adventure, or beginning anew with a new character and Origin Story. Key Game Features - A Stunning World Expanded - BioWare’s deepest universe to date just got bigger with an all new area of the world to explore, Amaranthine.
- Unlock the secrets of the Darkspawn and their true motivations.
- Rebuild the Grey Warden order and establish their base of operations at Vigil’s Keep.
- All-new Complex Moral Choices - Embark on an epic story that is completely defined and reactive to your play style, allowing players to create an entire experience based on both overall choices made and how complex situations are handled.
- The Varying Influence of "Origin Story" - Begin your character's adventure with a specific socioeconomic Origin Story that will affect attitudes and exchanges with NPCs, creating the possibility of a wide variety of game endings and thus add to the game's replay value.
- New Ways to Customize Your Hero - Experience additional spells, abilities, specializations, and items to further personalize and customize your hero and party.
- Import your character from Dragon Age: Origins or start anew as a Grey Warden from the neighboring land of Orlais.
- Encounter five all-new party members and an old favorite from Dragon Age: Origins.
- Even more Bone-crushing, Visceral Combat - Test your skills against an evolved, intelligent breed of Darkspawn and other menacing creatures including the Inferno Golem, 'Queen of the Blackmarsh' - deadly Spectral Dragon and The Children, a hideous and huge arachnid like scourge.
System Requirements: | | Minimum | Minimum | | OS: | Windows XP with SP3 / Vista with SP1 | | CPU: | XP: Intel Core 2(or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater AMD X2(or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater / Vista: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater | Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent | | RAM: | XP: 1GB or more / 1.5GB or more | 2 GB (XP) / 4 GB (Vista) | | HDD: | 20GB | | Video: | XP: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater / Vista: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater | ATI 3850 512 MB or greater, NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater, AMD Phenom II X3 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz or greater | | Other: | DVD-ROM drive for physical disc play; Mouse/keyboard/gamepad for gameplay | |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 65
 An Expansion You Can Truly Enjoy June 1, 2010
Ryan Dammrose (Dallas, TX USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Awakening expansion for Dragon Age is nothing short of awesome. It makes you feel like you've picked up where you left off in Dragon Age, allowing you to even import your main character from the previous campaign.
As far as the gameplay is concerned, it is the same great Dragon Age, but it has an entirely different feel than Origins in that you're starting from level 20 so you have lots and lots of abilities to play and work with. There is also a large increase in the number of sustained abilities that one can utilize. This can be quite effective when you start stacking auras and/or sustained abilities. Consequently, Willpower becomes a sought after statistic in order to actually utilize the plethora of abilities at your disposal. Fighting itself is more intense and some of the new abilities, like Massacre, are extremely entertaining.
I play on Nightmare difficulty and I found Awakening to be easier than regular Origins for two reasons: the first is because there are so many more abilities to work with and the second is because there are books that one can buy for 12 gold to customize characters' abilities entirely from level 1. This allows you to craft your group to have an unmatched synergy. It also allows for trying new and different tactics / builds with your characters. Unfortunately, the ease of play also means that you breeze right through the game, so it can feel rather short in comparison to the monster that was Origins.
The group and party dynamic feels different in Awakening as well. To gain approval rating, you have to have a member present in your party and happen by some object in the terrain that invokes a conversation. This means you can't just spam-talk to your party members to gain approval like you could in regular Origins.
Finally, the storyline is fantastic and Awakening does a great job of bringing good moral choices to the forefront, setting new standards for games. In Origins, despite all of the different factions and gray areas, there was still the feeling of "good" verses "evil" when it came to you verses the darkspawn. Without spoiling anything, Awakening does an excellent job of turning this polarized standard on its head and it even brings the darkspawn themselves into the gray. The questions it forces one to ask and the choices it causes one to make imitate moral choices in real life instead of keeping the polarized fantasy outlook that so many of us are familiar with. It is refreshing and it really puts a huge twist on the storyline, making one question their own purpose as a sort of hero of Ferelden. I do feel it could have been explored a bit more and perhaps the ending was a bit rushed in its conclusions, but I'm sure we can look forward to exploring that storyline further in the next expansion.
For those more interested in the character development aspect that is present in Origins, while some of the basics still remain in Awakening, Awakening is more fighting and less songs by the fire. Even still, I don't think it will disappoint as the loads of action can make up for it.
In short, if you loved Dragon Age, Awakening is a must have and it is a blast to play.
Awesome expansion for an awesome game. April 15, 2010
R. McGregor
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have not enjoyed a game so much in many years. When I learned of the expansion pack I picked it up right away and played it through within a week. Some might say it is too short but with the quality of the game I think this expansion is more than worth its price.
Very Good Game April 23, 2010
Shawn Lee Simonsen (Peoria, IL USA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Good follow up to the original game. New levels with new content, new land, and new monsters with a twist. Plot had some nice twists to it as well. Some interesting an intense boss fights as well. Well done and can't wait for another big expansion.
Would be great if they would add a multi-player feature to this game where you could co-op in a party with friends.
Awesome Expansion April 23, 2010
R. S. Fritz
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great extension to an already great game. The only difference is that you have a new set of characters to play with.
Rated as an Expansion, NOT a stand-alone game March 21, 2010
Brian Baker (Santa Clarita, CA)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I want to make that distinction very clear. I know "Awakening" is sold as a stand-alone as well as expansion pack. If I hadn't played "Origins", I'd be a bit disappointed in this game.
But as a continuation of the original game, I think it's just about as good as it gets.
There's a lot of story to play here, particularly if you do all the side quests. I'm also the kind of player who takes his time and enjoys the scenery, and I have to say that the scenery in the DA games is rendered simply beautifully.
True, there's no romance sub-plot.
But hey! You're on a "business trip" to the hinterlands! Are you really the kind of guy or gal who cheats on their One True Love from the original game when you're out of town?
Everything from the original game transferred over just fine for me: inventory, gold, XP, rank, skills, the whole shebang.
I went back to my last save from the original game (that's the source if you use your original character), went to camp and stripped everything from everybody -- which is fine, because those who do show up in this game are re-equipped with their own stuff (they won't be showing up in their undies) -- and sold what I didn't want in this game to the merchant in camp, got some serious coin for it (which transferred), kept the rest in my inventory (which also transferred), and voila!
I'm having a blast playing this expansion; you should, too.
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