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It won multiple year-end accolades including Game of the Year and Best Role-playing awards from several gaming publications, and has widely been considered to be one of the greatest video games ever made. It sold more than 3.2 million copies and 1 million pieces of downloadable content. Origins received critical acclaim upon release, with praise mostly directed at its story, setting, characters, music and combat system.

Origins was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in November 2009, and for Mac OS X in December 2009. The development of the game's console versions was outsourced to Edge of Reality. Development of the game began in 2002 and BioWare employed more than 144 voice-actors, and hired Inon Zur to compose the game's music. Its setting was inspired by The Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice & Fire, and was described by BioWare as a mix between high fantasy and low fantasy.

Throughout the game, players encounter various companions, who play major roles in the game's plot and gameplay.īioWare described Dragon Age: Origins as a 'dark heroic fantasy' set in a unique world, and a spiritual successor to their previous Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights franchises. The game is played from a third-person perspective that can be shifted to a top-down perspective. The player character is recruited into the Grey Wardens, an ancient order that stands against monstrous forces known as ' Darkspawn', and is tasked with defeating the Archdemon that commands them and ending their invasion. Set in the fictional kingdom of Ferelden during a period of civil strife, the game puts the player in the role of a warrior, mage, or rogue coming from an elven, human, or dwarven background. It is the first game in the Dragon Age franchise. Dragon Age: Origins is a 2009 role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

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