Dragon Age: Origins E3 Previews

The Internet is still abuzz about last week’s E3, so it comes as no surprise that a few more previews of Dragon Age: Origins are now available.

The first is at IncGamers:

The other segment shown off was a little earlier in the game, in the attempt to acquire Morrigan’s mother’s tome. Her mother is a witch who kills others to extend her own life, it seems, and plenty of people have tried to kill her before, so she’s no slouch in the combat department. It also appears that she’s after Morrigan. We skipped through the majority of the conversation in order to get to the fight quicker, with Laidlaw pointing out that Flemeth the mother didn’t seem surprised by the party turning up, and even somewhat disparaging about how Morrigan has finally found someone to dance to her tune. Manipulation? From a sorceress wearing black dental floss? Really?

Then Flemeth turned into a dragon.

The second is at Game Attic:

When you choose your character class at the beginning of the game, you will have ample time throughout the game to customize your abilities and to choose how you want to develop your skills. The skill sets associated with each class will be very broad, offering tons of options, eventually leading to even more powerful and more advanced sets of specialized skills. This assures that you, the gamer, will have full ability to build a character around your specific fighting interests. Obviously, if you are looking to master the skills of the blade then you will choose to be a fighter or if you prefer to use powerful magic as your style then the mage will be your choice. The rogue character class will be your sneak artist (like Altair from Assassins Creed) using stealth, sneaking behind enemies or even setting deadly traps! Don’t be fooled by your choice of only 3 character classes however, because, as I mentioned before, each class has a very deep and broad set of skills to choose from so they can be shaped to your liking!

And then there’s a small blurb on The New York Times:

My sentimental favorite of E3, Dragon Age is a throwback to the old-school single-player fantasy role-playing game. Of course it helps (a lot) that it is being made by the team behind the Baldur’s Gate series some of the best old-school single-player fantasy role-playing games. Like Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age appears to mix deep story lines and personal interactions, including the inevitable love triangles, with its sword-and-sorcery action. It is to be released by Electronic Arts on Oct. 20 for the PS3, 360 and Windows.