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Dragon Age: Origins serves its purpose, sparkles once or twice, but its lack of defined motifs and melodies gave me a largely unremarkable experience save for two outstanding tracks. It is a fairly typical example of incidental music and vague themes without any one element tying them all together.

The standout tracks come from the opening cinematic and deeper parts of the end-game. The title track is a strong, thumping piece of work that successfully works a memorable theme amongst the sultry sounds of the soprano voice. These add to the epic feel of the game when playing and are handled expertly by Bioware.
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As a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate 2, Dragon Age: Origins is an epic role-playing fantasy game that successfully blends the charm of an old-school RPG storyline with some sophisticated relationship and dialogue mechanics. It doesn't reinvent the Western Role-playing genre, but its presentation of a dark fantasy world with meaningful choices and grim consequences show that traditional Tolkien-inspired games have plenty left to offer the modern video game player.

The traditional Western Role-playing game has been well-represented in recent years, with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion offering some impressive open-world adventuring in a typical fantasy setting whilst Mass Effect brought Bioware's RPG expertise into the realm of science-fiction space opera. Dragon Age: Origins, also developed by Bioware, is pretty much the most traditional and typical fantasy RPG you could wish for and follows the company's success in developing the Dungeons and Dragons-based Baldur's Gate series and the original NeverWinter Nights.
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Dragon Age Origins roundly impressed with genuine relationships and perplexing moral choices. While everyone will play this game for different reasons, I fell in love with the characters and their stories.

Bioware are famed for their application of morality systems in games. This is a mechanic that requires their audience to make choices that will effect both the world around them and their avatar. These decisions have always tended towards the black or white, and while areas of grey did exist players were rewarded for committing to a single ethical path. Dragon Age Origins has taken this polarised system and created something subtler, and altogether more engrossing.
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Dragon Age Origins on the PS3 is an absolutely epic role playing game with swathes of intimacy in the form of dialogue, relationships and characters finding out their stories. The effort and craft creates a game that can be tailored for each and every player.

Dragon Age reminded me a lot of Mass Effect minus the first-person shooter mechanics and sci-fi setting, so I wasn't at all surprised that it was also developed by BioWare. As with Mass Effect, there are optional romantic side quests which culminate in a short sexy cut scene if you play your cards right, and as with Mass Effect, the game became the target of media controversy when this was revealed, particularly for the fact that it gave players the option to have gay relationships (both male and female this time round).
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Here's what I drew with my mouse after playing Dragon Age. I hope you like my video game reviews that are not hand drawn - but written one mouse stroke at a time.

I've never been in a real coma, but I doubt it would be as satisfying as playing Dragon Age. Hours have passed, days flown by, and all I have to show for it is a pile of junk food wrappers and a strong desire to play just ten more minutes, maybe fifteen.
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Taking the fantasy Role Play Game - RPG - genre and pushing it into darker territory, Dragon Age Origins on PC, PS3 and 360 entrusts you with the survival of humanity in a war-torn and brutal world. Telling a tale of violence, lust and betrayal that will keep you transfixed to the screen. This epic game from the makers of Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate brings a darker edge to any previous Role-playing games and pits you against the Darkspawn threat. With over 80 hours of gripping story, Dragon Age shows that the classic RPG has finally come of age - with dramatic results.

An experience full of unflinching themes and characters, Dragon Age Origins for the PC, Xbox360 and PS3 is the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate 2 - one of the most acclaimed role-playing game ever made. The developers, Bioware, have taken the best parts of the classic RPG genre and given it modern treatment in terms of impressive visuals and an accessible layout. But what they've done that's more impressive is the dark direction the gameplay and story has been taken in.
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