Dragon Age Legends to Launch on Facebook and Mobile Devices Simultaneously

According to this article on Inside Mobile Apps, EA2D will be releasing both Dragon Age Legends and a DAL Now! mobile application simultaneously, so there should be no shortage of platforms for any of us to get our Dragon Age fix later this month.

With both the Facebook title and its mobile companion plus EA’s console and PC game Dragon Age II arriving on March 8, this amounts to an aggressive and fully cross-platform marketing play by the gaming giant. However, EA stresses that Dragon Age Legends doesn’t just exist to upsell gamers to the $60 console version.

(This is a standalone game. It’s seen as an extension of the franchise, not as a marketing tool for other Dragon Age products,) said spokesperson Cindy Lum. (This game is going to have a life of its own.)

In beta since last fall, Dragon Age: Legends has seen favorable reviews and it’s been dubbed a (Facebook game for people who hate Facebook games.) It’s a turn-based role-playing game with a medieval theme: in it, you assume one of the classic roles as a warrior, rogue or mage.

EA2D’s calling the mobile version a companion, since it’s not a fully-fledged access point into the game. It’s really quite basic, actually. It allows players to engage in time-based mechanics, such as crafting potions over two or three-hour periods or collecting gold from friends. Players can also check their currency balance on the mobile version, although they can’t quite buy anything there yet. For now, EA2D is promoting the mobile companion at dal.ea2d.com to players who have already signed up for the Facebook game.

Anybody here playing Dragon Age Legends yet? I signed up a couple of days ago and have dabbled with it a little bit, though it seems a lot more time-consuming than Dragon Age: Journeys ever was.