Dragon's Age....um, hell yes!

If your anything like me, and if your a meat eating beer guzzling male, you are, then from time to time you utterly crave a good old fashioned role playing game, and Dragon's age provides that nectar that you are craving. These are utterly high accolades for a role player, because the past few years have been pretty plentiful with the great role players. Oblivion, and the Shivering Isles ad on were terrific, as was the more recent Fallout 3, and Mass Effect. That said Dragon's age delivers in a time when good role players have been churned out on a pretty regular basis, and it certainly hold it's own. Do you like a good story? If yes, your in luck, to say the least. DA delivers a great story, more story, and then a little more good story. You'll find yourself so wrapped up in the intriguing dialogue of DA that it seems more like a terrific interactive movie than a game, but thankfully those wonderful parts are follo0wed up by epic battles and lengthy quests, which will test your ability to utilize unique combinations of party members, and tactics. There are so many fascinating ways to approach a battle, and each battle is unique in what will best work to triumph. You may at times want archers and mages, but leave a rouge behind and you may find you cann'ot pick a certain lock or disarm a trap. You may also control if your parts rushes forward and attacks at will, or should they hold position and give you a chance to throw a few aarows before your tanks rush in and risk a quick death. The combat choices are incredibley interesting and keep the game fresh till the very end. There are also a myriad of ways to approach how you level up your team. There are so many different skills, and combat tactics to inprove, and each one has a drastic effect on what each of your party will excell at it, or what their weaknesses will be. Armor, weapons, shields, potions....oh my. There are a lot, and plenty of variations to each. You'll spend so much time with merchants outfitting your team that you'll say; "Makers Breath, how is it four in the morning?"

Overall: Four and a half stars out of six. If this game has a weakness it is probvably the graphics, which are a little weak, but not enough to make this anything other than a must play game in 2010. It does fall short of fallout 3, but in all fairnesss that is a role player that sets the bar so high, it's allmost impossible to touch it. In short; buy Draggon's Age. Play it, live it, love it, and don't make any plans for a while.