A damn shame they didnt include any face customization :(

I hope is good enough, I want a better game than Origins, if the game is so bad then I will be screwed by a bad game for 2 months lol.

DA:O is still $30 and $40 in some places.

Good luck finding DA2 at $20.00 maybe in 2 years and we all be playing DA3

It was always going to happen; beyond the 'flashier combat animations' lies a dumbed down RPG.

f what I saw in Dragon Age II was dumbed down then the game's still got a high IQ.

Dragon Age II Definitely Not As Dumbed Down As Mass EffectThe screen I'm going to describe is the game's Tactics menu. It's beneath the game's hood and can be ignored by those sword-swinging, button-mashing new fans BioWare might gain with its streamlined, faster-fighting sequel. The Tactics menu isn't there for those new gamers. It's for the old-school, for the kind of person in this world who knows keyboard shortcuts and has at least once fixed a TV for a relative simply by properly using the machine's menus.

The Dragon Age II Tactics menu is a variation on what was included in the first game, a circuit board of words and numbers that lets the player program basic scripts for its characters.

For example, from the player-configured Tactics menu for one of the members in the Dragon Age II fighting party:

-If the character is clustered with at least three enemies —> character will fire hail of arrows.

-If the character is clustered with at least two enemies —> character will fire bursting arrow.

-If the enemy's health is over 50% —> character will use a pinning shot.

-If the enemy's rank is normal or higher —> character will use a rhyming triplet.

Those are four of the seven configurable, prioritized if/then statements that could be set for one character's powers. Another seven could be set for each of the other four members of the hero's party.

By configuring these settings, the player is automating their allies' actions. They're ensuring that, instead of having to quickly switch from manual control of one to another during a 4-on-4 skirmish of heroes against demons, they can trust that the allies will fight smartly.

Both halves of the Tactics statements can be tweaked. There can be different "ifs" and a whole lot of "thens", the latter tied to powers and items. Characters can be scripted to automatically heal each others if party health reaches a certain level, use certain items if other conditions occur. The characters can also, in a more general sense, be set to behave aggressively, be more cautious… those tendencies being about the deepest you can set in a Mass Effect. Dragon Age's system, which also appeared in a slightly different form in Final Fantasy XII, is deeper and, frankly, unusual for modern role-playing games.

The Dragon Age II tactics can set up combos. One character, for example, might dole out 4x damage to enemies who are made "brittle." Another character might be able to make characters brittle with a certain attack. You can figure this one out: set one character to emphasize the brittle move; set the other to spot that and swoop in.

I didn't use these scripts this week, at a showcase for the game in New York, when I pitted four heroes against one giant rock wraith. The battle I was thrown into by a Dragon Age rep occurs near the end of the game's first act. I was playing on "casual," the game's lowest difficulty. I'd configured no tactics. I wasn't even carefully managing my allies' health. These were stupid moves. The wraith killed all my guys, then killed me.

That was dumb. Dragon Age II is not.

Cant wait for more impressions, Moonwalker loved it!!

PC demo is up now at the above link.

Dose it support 360 controller?, if yes then Raptor you can try it on pc.

No PC version doesn't support control pads.