Foxhole Review -- Dragon Age 2: Rise To Power

[Starfox]

Well, there it is, the official Foxhole review for Dragon Age 2. What else to say... Well, it may be the first time I was that much depressed writing a review. But well, you will be able to find why I was depressed and why the latest tilte from BIoware was granted an astounding (for Bioware that is) 5.0/10 reading it all right there.

Have fun... or maybe not. It all depends if you like Bioware or not. I like Bioware (really do) so I didn't have any fun reading my own review (or even writing it for that matter)...

[Silver Sorrow]

About the same rating I would've given it...but subtract four points for the lack of: an editor, a weapon-swap key, imagination, and common sense.    However: if I were unaware that this is a full game, I would say that it made a pretty good, if astoundingly overpriced, demo for a much larger, much cooler game.

...really, is that what happened? Were they halfway done with the thing and some be-suited monkey called down from the mango tree that they needed this thing on the shelves ASAP? Either that or Bioware REALLY hates its customers. "Little bastards will take what we give them and LIKE it, by Lucifer!"

[Starfox]

Oh, there's a bunch of issues I didn't discuss in the review, for a part because I was fed up with the game and just wanted to get the review out and be done with it. My last playthrough was much less than enjoyable. In fact I even think I fell asleep half-way through it. Never happened to me with any other Bioware game.

Now if you want my opinion and in order to restore shared responsibilities, I think that EA is as much involved in the screw-up as Bioware if not more. It seems like their way of doing things. They pressure a studio up to the rupture point then if the resulting sales are not high enough they just get rid of the said studio. It already happened and probably will happen again in the future. And if they continue this way, Bioware will end up as just another casualty.

Let's not rush things though. I have still some hope for Mass Effect 3 mainly because the developing teams for each title are not the same. But of course, EA has still a word to say so all bets are off.