Thursday, 24 February 2011

Demo-lition - Plowing through the Dragon Age 2 demo!

Downloaded the Dragon Age 2 demo last night on PC and what can I say, it's Dragon Age but shiny and new!

Started off as a Mage, and this game is A LOT faster let me tell you, within the first 5 minutes I had notched up around 30 Darkspawn kills at least! You can still pause the battle though, so you don't really get overwhelmed, I found it more manageable  than DA:O, it just felt smoother giving commands to your party members saying that I didn't have a look at the tactics interface so maybe there will be no need to micromanage your team what so ever if that has been updated too.

Graphics are (Like I said at the start) shiny and new! Effects are more spectacular now, and characters now seem to have emotion on their faces too, plus the main character has............found a voice! I find you get more connected to a main character if they are more animated and involving, instead of just silence when you pick options from a list, in fact you can look at it more like Mass Effect now conversation wise, things aren't so grey anymore as in the first game, you can choose Nice - Funny/Sarcastic - Evil/Aggressive and investigate through conversation trees.........JUST LIKE MASS EFFECT. So you have a main character who has personality, and a beard.



So to sum up, I played the PC version, loved it, no slowdown or glitches that I found, played as a mage and it was very enjoyable. The ONLY problem I had is that everything I killed with my magic just exploded, which is great at first, but when EVERYTHING is exploding, you lose the novelty. Saying that it was the first 5 minutes of the game, and if you play the demo you will understand too that it won't be like that for the whole game.

I have recorded some footage from the demo for your viewing pleasure below, I was going to make it into a video commentary (I am thinking of creating a feature called DEMO-LITION where it is a commentary through a demo, just have to see how it would work) but alas my computer crashed when writing a summary of the review on notepad last night, then this morning when I actually recorded some audio the best describing words I used were "Good" and "Better than the first one" so I scrapped it, I was mucho tired!

2 comments:

  1. Went to download the XBox demo the other night but got trolled by the 'Gold members only' thing. Hoping it's gonna be up on the PSN, but I have yet to check. So this awesome PC you have, you say it crashed?

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  2. Well it was acting up since I put some new thermal paste on the processor so I thought it was that, turns out 2 of the screws had come out of the motherboard and it caused it to bend at one corner, thus messing up the Ram and processor. Luckily when I screwed it in all secure it has worked the best it ever has since :-D
    So yes, it's awesome :-P

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