BioWare has announced a new downloadable content pack for Dragon Age: Origins, this time advancing the game’s story beyond the fall of the Archdemon at the boxed game’s conclusion.
The downloadable content pack will cost 560 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360, 560 BioWare Points on PC and USD $6.99 on PlayStation Network. It’s due on the 7th of September.
Warning: There’s a minor spoiler beyond this fold.
BioWare has detailed the next downloadable content pack for Dragon Age: Origins, first teased at Comic-Con. Entitled the Golems of Amgarrak, the DLC will be an advanced challenge for experienced players. In spite of earlier suggestions to the contrary, the DLC does have a storyline.
Speaking with website MMORPG, BioWare’s senior designer Rob Bartel says, “You have come to Orzammar at the request of Jerrik Dace. Jerrik’s brother led an expedition into the Deep Roads to find Amgarrak and the long-lost secrets of golem construction.
“The rediscovery of such a method would bring great wealth, power and prestige to House Dace but the expedition has not returned and is now feared lost.
1UP reports from Comic-Con that new Dragon Age: Origins downloadable content is in the works at BioWare.
The DLC is to be set exclusively in an unnamed dungeon. Designed for high level characters it will not involve any storytelling, instead promoting challenging combat and the use of character tactics against “hordes of enemies.”
No details around date or pricing were mentioned.
BioWare has released some details around its upcoming downloadable content pack for Dragon Age: Origins.
The game’s official site reads, “You now fight as the Darkspawn! The city of Denerim, jewel of Ferelden, girds itself for war. As a hurlock vanguard, you alone hold the power to make thralls of your fellow Darkspawn and drive them into the heat of battle. Heed the archdemon's call--Denerim must burn!”
The DLC is dated for the 18th of May. BioWare has released three screenshots, which you can find below.
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As the spiritual successor to BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate™, one of the most successful role-playing games in the industry, Dragon Age: Origins represents BioWare’s return to its roots, delivering a fusion of the best elements of existing fantasy works with stunning visuals, emotionally-driven narrative, heart-pounding combat, powerful magic abilities and credible digital actors. The spirit of classic RPGs comes of age, as Dragon Age: Origins features a dark and mature story and gameplay.
Features:
- A Stunning World to Explore: BioWare’s deepest universe to date with over 80 hours of gameplay and more than double the size and scope of Mass Effect
- Travel throughout dozens of environments and fully immerse yourself in a shattered world that is on the brink of utter annihilation
- An epic story that is completely shaped and reactive to your play style
- Complex Moral Choices: There are no easy choices
- Tailor your Dragon Age: Origins experience from the very beginning by choose from six different Origin Stories
- Decide how to handle complex issues like murder, genocide, betrayal, and the possession/sacrificing of children without the security of a good/bad slider to tell you what to do
- Full Character Customization: Sculpt your hero in your own image or fantasy
- Elaborate character creator allows you to create your own hero unique from anyone else
- Shape your character’s personality and morality based on the choices you make throughout the game
- Engage in Bone-Crushing, Visceral Combat: Battle against massive and terrifying creatures
- Unleash legendary powers and choose from over 100 different magical spells and skills
- Experience the adrenaline rush of brutal combat, beheading your foes or casting spells that make enemies explode from within
