Dragon Age II Preview

A five-paragraph preview of Dragon Age II has surfaced over at OXM UK, during which they briefly cover the game’s classes and dialogue system. A bit of what to expect:

It’s not just in fights that you’ll plan your character’s development: BioWare does love a chat, and DA2 is full of meaningful discussions. Dialogue comes via a wheel – think Mass Effect’s conversations – and shares that game’s variable approach to responses. The plot schtick is novel: spread across ten years, it tells the story of the Champion of Kirkwall – Hawke – and his/her rise to champion-hood. As the story’s being told second-hand, you’ll be making up your own legend, freewheeling as you decide whether your Hawke saved the fabled Puppy of +11 cuteness or punted it off a bridge and laughed.