Video Game Review - Dragon Age: Origins (Xbox 360)

I've been a fan of Bioware's role-playing video games for a long time now, ever since Baldur's Gate came out on the PC many years ago.  Any Star Wars fans who didn't enjoy the two Knights of the Old Republic games probably don't like video games at all.  Of course, their signature creation is Mass Effect and the new Mass Effect 2.

So when I saw that they had another RPG out even before Mass Effect 2, I knew I had to give it a try.

I never posted a "First Impressions" article for Dragon Age: Origins because I found that, when it came time to do my reviews, they sounded a lot alike unless my opinion totally changed from beginning to end, so this time I decided to just do a review.  And this review has been a *long* time coming, because this game is *huge*.  This is not a game that you play for 10-15 hours and then take the disc out and never try again.  No, for me it was 65 hours later, and I even started it again a couple of times (for achievement purposes mostly).  I was immersed in this world for a couple of hours a night most of the week, and even longer on weekends.  That being said, while Dragon Age: Origins has all the same rich detail and juicy RPG goodness of most Bioware games, I was not as impressed this time around.  It became a slog to get through in the middle part of the game, and the final confrontation is just incredibly hard.