Dragon Age Origins
Dragon Age: Origins is a PC role-playing game developed by BioWare. It centers on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.7 / 10
About this game
Dragon Age: Origins is a PC role-playing game centered on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Dragon Age is BioWare’s fantasy role-playing series set in Thedas. Build a hero, fight alongside companions and make difficult choices about whom to trust or support. Conversations and personal quests give those companions a place in the adventure beyond their combat abilities.
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AI review
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A rich party RPG especially well served by PC tactics.
The 2009 Windows PC Dragon Age: Origins makes a long party adventure feel shaped by the player. Race and class lead into six different opening stories, and people met there can return later with changed emotional weight. Companion dialogue, voice performances and branching decisions give the dark fantasy world substance. Its four-person combat is especially strong on PC: the camera can pull back to an overhead tactical view, letting the player pause and assign abilities and positions across the whole group. Demanding encounters reward that control more than repeated attacks. Some scenery remains drab, and the direct multiplatform review documents small quest malfunctions on all three releases, so this is not a flawless technical experience. The assessment concerns the original PC base game, without silently adding the Ultimate Edition expansions or borrowing the console controller interface. Players who enjoy reading dialogue, developing a party and revisiting different origins will find unusually durable value in it.
Strengths
- Branching origins, companions and precise party control.
Weaknesses
- Some drab scenery and minor quest glitches.
Who it is for: PC players who enjoy managing and replaying party adventures.
Play notes: This covers the original PC base release, not later bundles.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Branching quests and party variation sustain a long campaign despite familiar detours. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The PC tactical camera lets players direct all four companions with unusual precision. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Companions and voices carry the world beyond its uneven scenery. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension PC controls suit party tactics well, though the tested release has minor glitches. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- BioWare
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release date
- 2009
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Third PersonMain Story 20–50 HoursFantasySolo-friendlyTurn-based CombatStory-drivenLong-term ProgressionLevel ProgressionExploration3D Graphics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
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- Standalone
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- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
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Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2009
- Xbox 360Worldwide2009
- PlayStation 3Worldwide2009
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