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Dragon Age II

It was inevitable, really. Bethesda take years between sequels; Blizzard, decades. In a single year, BioWare are updating both of their major franchises alongside the launch of an incredibly ambitious and high-risk MMOG. There is no studio, large or small, for which that would not be overreach short of outright insanity. Dragon Age II may be a response to the unanticipated success of Origins, but that it has been delivered in a short timescale and to a budget should really come as no surprise – next to Mass Effect and The Old Republic, BioWare’s revivalist fantasy project is a curiosity,…

Mass Effect 2

Out of the last three Bioware games, Mass Effect 2 is my least favourite. Don’t get me wrong: it’s good, maybe even great, but it feels like a step backward from the mind blowing games-you-cant-put-down of Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age, which is unfortunate given the recent(ish anyway, this post is probably coming out a month after I’ve written it) news that Dragon Age 2 is going to settle its self more into the Mass Effect 2 template. The problem is that Mass Effect 2 feels heavily segmented and not in the standard three act template we’ve come to…