See Dragon Age: Origins In Action

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• I was thinking the same thing... and it got me very excited for this game. : Gwyndion
• I agree, this is more like it. Bravo Bioware. : scythe_guildhall
• Thats what I thought too. Just in 3D. No complaints about that. The only thing is its a new IP so well se... : aznboysix
• Yup. Colour me EXCITED. : Rice-Rocketeer
• As soon as I saw the pause to set up the attacks I was relieved. : Pettytheft
• Bravo Bioware for having the courage to stay old school indeed! : fffortune

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  Because it's more realistic, and we don't all pine for the gameplay of the 1990's, where isometric views ... : deadhorse
  • ZOMG, someone should tell Blizzard... Diablo 3 is going to fail because it doesn't cater to the FPS cr... : carbontree
• Amen to that! Baldur's Gate, Fallout and Planescape Torment amongst others have yet to be surpassed in... : fffortune

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  It's Generic Fantasy RPG '09. : Fred Garvin
  • zomg it's Fred Garvin male prostitute! : caddytwix

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  You this this is bad? Street Fighter 4: limbs go through bodies and limbs, despite the fact that it's a... : progressor
  • err, *think* : progressor
  • there is a reason for it this time. Having the hitbox (can' remember the right term) at surface contact m... : humbleone
• It's good man. Most of RPGs have that kind of collision detection in combat if I can call it that. Bes... : te[R]ror
• That would mean an awful lot of money spent on animation, I'd prefer they spend that on the actual game w... : orangesq
• I agree completely. I HATE combat that looks like that. Keep that shit in a lackluster MMO. I want to ... : deadhorse
• Unless I'm very mistaken nobody is calling this realistic combat. : Arceihn

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  Hey, if the game plays nice, fuck th graphics for the most part. : mobab
  • Combat looks pretty dull, cept for some of that boss stuff. : deadhorse
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  Wow, look who waked up on the wrong side of the bed. : Legion116
  • yeah, he should go back to sleeped! : waxthirteen

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  They say that? Didn't Baldur's Gate have Multiplayer? : Sturm08
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    It did which was fun to play over a lan, but I wouldnt try over the net. : happynoodle
    • Net might be okay if you're communicating with the other player by voice. : Medieval Barber

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  NWN already was D&D, this isn't. Although to be fair, this probably "isn't" d&d in the same way that koto... : jad3d
  • Oh, nevermind. I saw that "-" as a "+".... color me retarded. : jad3d
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  Depends on the game system. One of the things I never liked about NWN was the D&D rules. They have a lot ... : Evan_C
  • Yep, the ruleset didn't translate well to an RPG. Things became too complicated and didn't make much sens... : Pettytheft

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• Yeah after he did it I was almost expecting a Final Fantasy style synchronized cheer from the party membe... : aznboysix
• Yeah, especially considering that most of them were dead at one point. : mrwolf710
• It's just another day at the office for those characters. : nudel

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  NWN/NWN2 use the Aurora engine, I don't recall what Kotor used, and ME used UE3. This is a separate en... : Vincent Grayson
  • Interesting, I was under the impression ME used a more advanced version of Aurora. I'm almost sure this g... : Visceral Monkey
  • All the Bio engines have their roots in the BG engine for data management and the MDK2 engine for 3D grap... : Fred Garvin
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  Mass Effect used Unreal 3, KOTOR used the Odyssey Engine which was based off NWN's Aurora engine. Thi... : carbontree
  • Want to bet the data and memory management are pretty well the same and most likely the scripting as well... : Fred Garvin
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  NWN 2, Kotor, and Mass Effect use completely different engines. NWN 2 was Obsidian's own Spark engine ... : locater16
  • And as Carbontree pointed out, this is the brand new Eclipse Engine. They just have a similar perspective... : locater16
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    Obsidian's engine is called Electron which runs on top of Aurora. Here's some screenshots of the NWN2 Exp... : Jabby
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      access forbidden =\ : mobab
      • Dragon Drop : nudel
    • Holy shit, those look really good. :| : Rice-Rocketeer
    • Dragon Age is looking really good. I really liked the mini-boss battle. It looks like a lot of fun. : Jabby

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• it's a spiritual successor to BG, NWN and Kotor taking what they learnt, and liked, about all three ga... : Torias

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  Not a perfect shot, but there is this: http://press.bioware.com/Dragon_Age_E3_Assets/DragonAge_Screens... : Derek French
  • Thanks for the screen shots. These look good. : te[R]ror
• They did have one, right before the lady put the fire out with spells. : mobab
• Looked to me like they took some cues from The Witcher. They seem to have both a ground level "behind you... : Dr_Tran