Dragon Age: Origins Leliana’s Song DLC Interview and Trailer

IGN has scored an interview with BioWare senior writer Lukas Kristjanson about Leliana’s Song, as well as a one-minute promotional trailer for the forthcoming Dragon Age: Origins DLC. From the Q&A:

IGN: In the press release announcement we saw that this DLC will be a “fully voiced cinematic experience”, can you explain what that means? Will there be character interactions comparable to the type we got in the main campaigns? Or will it be a more combat-focused DLC with the occasional voice over, more akin to Darkspawn Chronicles?

Lukas Kristjanson: “Fully voiced” means full player-character voice over, which is something new for Dragon Age. The player takes the role of Leliana in her own story, so we have a defined character we can record, and we of course brought Corinne Kempa back for the purpose. Dialogue choices are presented as text paraphrases that lead to fully voiced lines. It’s a hybrid similar to Mass Effect 2, a system I know well, and we are eager to see how it is received in this setting.

On the visual side, our cinematic designers took the presentation in a fun and interesting direction. They plumbed the depths of the Origins animation library and created some very intense scenes. Not on the scale of clashing armies, but that wasn’t the intent. It’s a very tight visual style, and with the full VO, fast action, new music oh yeah, it has a unique score by the way all of this contributes to a tone that is markedly different. You’re not saving the world this time around. The action happens on a very personal level for Leliana.