Dragon Age: Inquisition

Dragon Age: Inquisition has some utterly amazing moments, but they’re padded out by a fair amount of ho-hum filler.

-- As reviewed by PCWorld
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Product details

  • Become the Inquisitor: Create your character and lead a team of unique heroes on a perilous journey through a beautiful, open world. Tough choices define your experience, and even one decision can change the course of what's to come.
  • Jaws of Hakkon: Enter an overgrown wilderness filled with Avvar, fiercely independent hunters who settled in the southern mountains of Thedas. Uncover what happened to the last Inquisitor and the dragon he pursued. Face powerful foes and confront an ancient god of war bent on destroying the world.
  • The Descent: Descend into the Deep Roads to battle monstrous darkspawn, bloodthirsty creatures that dwell beneath the surface of Thedas. Explore cavernous dungeons to find the cause of worsening earthquakes and solve one of Thedas’ greatest mysteries.
  • Trespasser: After saving the world by closing the Breach, your next mission determines the future of the Inquisition itself. It's up to you to defeat a great evil that could devastate Thedas. Embark on a last adventure with your team to confront the one who started it all.
  • Deluxe Upgrade, Spoils of the Avvar & Spoils of the Qunari: Customize your Inquisition with specialized gear, legendary weapons, diverse mounts, and unique Skyhold elements to personalize your home base.

PROS

+ Engaging core story and characters
+ Top-notch voice acting

CONS

- Filled to the brim with stupid fetch quests
- Open world for the sake of being open world

Expert reviews and ratings

By PCWorld on November 11, 2014
Dragon Age: Inquisition has some utterly amazing moments, but they’re padded out by a fair amount of ho-hum filler.
80
By Tom's Guide on November 19, 2014
You'll want to spend hours with the compelling characters, elaborate worlds and in-depth RPG gameplay of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
90
By TrustedReviews on June 17, 2014
In fact, the Mass Effect comparisons go further. For all its large, free-roaming areas, each one littered with numerous missions and objectives, Inquisition is primarily a game of collecting party members and forging alliances in order to combat a monstrous evil. It’s the kind of narrative that a Commander Shepherd would find familiar, and for all that Inquisition reworks Mass Effect’s structural underpinnings in gritty sword and sorcery garb, Dragon Age has never felt more like a fantasy Mass Effect. This isn’t a bad thing, and while it works hard to appeal to a more action-oriented crowd, it’s surprising how much you can still make Inquisition feel like a traditional fantasy RPG if that’s your thing.
80
By IGN on November 11, 2014
When I’d finally slain my first dragon in Dragon Age: Inquisition, I felt a little sad at the thought that I was probably beginning to exhaust its seemingly endless stream of content. But then I saw the quest ticker: “Dragons Slayed - 1 out of 10.” In all my hours, I had only ever seen three. It’s a surprisingly huge, dense world, and I soon realized there were still entire sandboxes I hadn’t even set foot in. Even in my hundredth hour, I’m still discovering. Despite its less than compelling plot, I still want to go back to explore and fight through every nook and cranny of Dragon Age: Inquisition, until every dragon’s skull is mounted on my wall.
88