Dragon Age 2 Review

I will start out by saying that DA2 is a rather fun game, however I thought it was a little lacking.

The gameplay was good though it did seem a little like a button masher to me than a role playing game, and when I say button masher I mean literally one button, well occasionally you might throw in a special power that is mapped to one of the other three buttons on the game controller. In fairness however I know there are some tactics that you can program the other team mates to do and that you can sorta pause the battle to issue commands.  Call me impatient or whatever but I didn’t feel like taking the time to figure out what tactics worked with what character and issuing commands.  It just didn’t seem harmonious with the way battles played out, but I did finish the game the way I played it and still enjoyed it.

The graphics were quite nice, however after playing the demo on the pc and then getting the game on the PS3 it was kind of a let down.  The graphics on the PS3 were great but just not on the same level as the PC.  I would of gotten the game on the PC, but I didn’t like the controls as well.  There wasn’t much of a variety on the dungeons either in this game.  Each new area you went to looked the same with maybe a door or passage shut off that wasn’t in a previous area.

It was also refreshing to play a game that took more than 6 hours to play.  I miss the day long gone when games took you a couple of weeks of nonstop play.  However in fairness this game is single player only so the developers were able to concentrate solely on the single player aspect of the game therefore giving it some length.  However this is where I have some letdowns of this game.  I don’t know what it was exactly but the story just didn’t seem to do much for me.  The first DA story seemed to be on a grand scale.  This one seemed to be about a few mundane things that the Champion of the game had done in the recent past.  The happenings just didn’t seem larger than life that you would think a Champion of a story would face.  Don’t get me wrong I don’t hate this game but I think it lacked a little in the story department.

All in all, even though it sounds like I don’t like this game, I did, and I would recommend it to anybody that likes Role Playing Games.  Despite the faults that I mentioned I enjoyed it enough that it kept my attention, and I tried to play it every night that I could and hated when I had to stop.  If I had to give it a rating out of ten I would give it a seven.