NY Times review: "Dragon Age - Origins"
Dave U. Random
Can the imagination ever convey as much meaning as
experience? Or rather, can exploration of the imagination �
the inner life of the mind � itself become a fully
developed sort of experience?
After devoting roughly 120 hours in less than two weeks to
completing the vast expanse of "Dragon Age - Origins"
(Amazon.com: http://u.nu/64tf4 ), I am left only with those
questions.
I went nowhere for the holidays. I woke up each day,
shambled a few yards to my most powerful computer and was
transported to the mystical land of Ferelden, a fantasy
kingdom riven by political conflict and under assault both
overt and clandestine by unappeasable demonic foes from
beyond. Day after day, night after night, sunrise after
sunrise, the world of "Dragon Age" continued to unspool
before me in such variety and sheer Tolkienian extent that
when I actually finished the game, at 2 a.m. on New Year�s
Day, I felt as if I were awakening to 2010 from a
fortnight�s trance...
Continued: http://u.nu/5ysf4