Dragon Age Preview

CVG has put together a detailed preview of Dragon Age, which surprisingly offers quite a bit of new information about BioWare’s upcoming CRPG.

Banter with living, breathing NPCs is a primary motion high on the agenda – with the dynamics of your own LOTR-style fellowship never too far away from the developers’ mindset. You’ll have up to three followers, each with their own ingrained personality and moral standpoints, and you’ll be able to alternately pander to them and piss them off as you see fit.

One example of how interaction will work is Shale – a character similar to KOTOR’s annihilistic droid HK47 – he’s a 9ft dwarven War Golem who you can inscribe with runes as the game progresses to power him up. Whether he ends up as a happy, opinionated member of society or remains an unthinking tool of destruction is up to you. As indeed, ultimately, are kingships, the lives and deaths of countless people and the fate of entire races…