Dragon Age: Origins The Darkspawn Chronicles DLC Reviews

Three more less-than-favorable reviews for BioWare’s The Darkspawn Chronicles DLC kick off the new week, starting with a score of 40% at The Game Fanatics:

It had a small highlight when you get to kill innocents and you get to see the end game from a different point of view, but other than that, a bit of a letdown. Fans of Dragon Age: Origins might want to pick this DLC up when its on sale or just not at all.

Moving on, Ten Ton Hammer gives it a 62/100:

Players who can’t get enough pure tactical action from either Origins or Awakening, may enjoy exploring this adventure’s interesting premise. However, (The Darkspawn Chronicles) lacks a number of things that makes gameplay elsewhere in Dragon Age as appealing as it is. It also fails to add a number of the things to the main game that players hope for from expansion content, like new abilities, classes, art assets for the toolkit, or just more adventure for their player character’s to experience during the core campaign. As it is, the sparse experience, short length, and little replay value leave (The Darkspawn Chronicles) as something of a novelty.

And GamingAngels leaves us without a score:

For five bucks, you can purchase an hour of storming through exits and killing innocent townsfolk; If you’re like me and found Zevran to be an incredible annoyance, you may enjoy punching him repeatedly as a gargantuan Ogre. If you want to butcher Clerics and women, be my guest. Although this sounds insanely fun, (The Darkspawn Chronicles) manages to perfect (boring.) Essentially, it’s the same game with different character models and nothing to offer the Dragon Age crowd minus a few, humorous codex entries. Your reward is 25 achievement points and a lackluster ending. Unless you’d like a bloody-up a few teammates save another five bucks for a legit rental at your local Blockbuster.