Dragon Age: Origins E3 Previews

Just in case you haven’t heard enough about Dragon Age: Origins out of E3, there are a couple more previews to check out.

First in line is Big Download:

In some instances, the player can even choose to betray allies, as one instance demonstrated. We had to find and defeat Morrigan’s mother – who is also an extremely powerful sorceress – who indicates that Morrigan may be manipulating us to her own ends. We were presented with the choice to either follow through on Morrigan’s behalf or turn on our long-time ally. For the purposes of the demonstration, we chose to battle the old woman, and at that time she transforms into a giant dragon and the entire party needs to work together to bring it down. After a long battle, the encounter ends with the player’s character jumping atop the dragon’s head and running his sword through it, which simultaneously answers two questions. Yes, there are indeed dragons in Dragon Age: Origins and yes, you will be able to ride them… for a little while.

And then we have Gaming Nexus:

You play a member of the Grey Wardens, a group of guardians. The main antagonist is the Arch Demon Dragon and it’s your job to take out the evil forces. The game features a pretty free floating camera with the demo being mostly done over the character’s shoulder.

The demo’s first part showed how choices can affect the game. The main character had two love interests at this point of the game. The sequence showed the main character sleeping with one of the women and then showed how that action caused the other woman to confront you. You can then make a choice on how you want to proceed in dealing with your love triangle. The choices you make will affect more than a small part of the game and this should give you more replayability for the game to try different actions.