By Jim Rossignol on August 17th, 2010.
UPDATE: Three new screens below, click for full image.
I’ve posted the Dragon Age 2 CGI trailer from EA’s press conference below, via PCG. It features some fancy fighting, and doubtless at least half a dozen other clues about the full game. DA2 is out March 8th for the North Americans and March 11th for the Europeans.
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By Jim Rossignol on August 17th, 2010.
The EA GamesCom 2010 press conference has been wrapped up – and there was no Battlefield 3 showing – but there is some interesting material in there. I’ve quickly jotted the relevant stuff below.
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By Jim Rossignol on July 27th, 2010.
This video (below) from Game Informer’s visit to Bioware is clearly grossly unrepresentative of what the finished game is going to be like, but it does contain lots of chatter from the devs, and a brief glimpse of a battle going on in the new game engine. Not looking particularly finished, but it’s there nonetheless. It also demonstrates that games really are made by guys sat at desks, and not by cackling EA money-bots in a city of darkness in the caves beneath California.
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By Alec Meer on July 13th, 2010.
Just as a follow-up to Jim’s post earlier, it’s worth pointing out a Bioware comment from last week in which they revealed that Dragon Age: Origins was their most successful game ever. Which makes it doubly weird that they’re trying to make Dragon Age 2 more like the Mass Effects. The first one, at least, was a less successful project.
*As of last November. Mass Effect 2 probably did okay too.
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By Jim Rossignol on July 13th, 2010.
Why change a winning formula? That’s what I was left wondering after discovering that, on the one hand, Dragon Age sold better than any Bioware game ever as of November, and on the other, that the formula is changing dramatically for Dragon Age 2. It’s worth noting that the PC version isn’t changing as much as the console versions of the game. We will apparently retain “strategic combat”, which is a good news, while console chums will be “playing to their strengths” with more actiony combat mechanics. Conversation will also now be handled via Mass Effect’s wheel system. The biggest change, however, is that Dragon Age 2 will be getting its own equivalent of Shepard, with player character options reduced to the male of female versions of “Hawke” (pictured? I think). Bioware confirmed on their forums that you will have to play a human.
Hell, I enjoyed Mass Effect 2, but you have to wonder why Dragon Age was so successful in the first place. Not because it was copying its less successful sibling, that’s for sure. I enjoy almost all of Bioware’s work, but I think boiling one game down to another just makes gaming a less interesting place. Diversity is important.
By Jim Rossignol on July 8th, 2010.
The Official Dragon Age 2 site is live. No trailer just yet, but that’s coming on the 17th of August, apparently. There is some fey concept art, too, and that possibly links to the last of the details that the site holds:
a whole realm rendered in stunning detail with updated graphics and a new visual style
So possibly not looking like the original. Which could be a good thing. Or could just be a “let’s not look like The Witcher 2″. It also promises “dynamic new combat mechanics”, which could be hot air, or could signal a Mass-Effect-2ification of Dragon Age’s RPG processes. Your speculations, readers?
EDIT: Looks like Game Informer got the scoop for this month’s issue.
By Jim Rossignol on July 8th, 2010.
[EDIT: Actually this was also confirmed in February, as we reported here.] According to IGN, Dragon Age 2 has been officially confirmed by EA, although it had already been partially revealed both by a previous mention of another Dragon Age game in the works, and an inclusion of the title of the game in a Warhammer Online press release. Bioware had been teasing something, too, as their Twitter mentioned that today would be “great” for Bioware fans. So there might be more action when Americaland wakes up. In the meantime we’ve had our artists knock up an impression of the new Dragon Age logo.
By John Walker on February 9th, 2010.
Dragon Age 2 could be with us as soon as 2011? This appears to be one of the headlines to emerge from EA’s latest telegraph broadcast, alongside Dead Space 2′s peculiar disappearance from the PC, release dates for APB and Crysis 2, and signs of improving fortunes at the publisher. Oddly enough there’s details below.
