Dragon Age - Preview Roundup #2

Another list of Dragon Age previews, this time courtesy of Blue's:

• 1UP
• Gamers.com
• IGN.UK
• NowGamer

...and a sample from 1Up, who played with the X360 controls:

Yeah, when I played it on PC for a Pre-E3 event, I naturally zoomed the camera out to a pseudo-isometric perspective, and liberally used the space key to pause combat and queue up commands. Going into this meeting, I didn't have a good grasp of how it would play on a 360 gamepad. Now after actually playing it, I might, just might, find myself also playing this on 360. Like KOTOR, the basics of party and time management have been preserved, and are now enhanced with Mass Effect's radial wheel. You can just jump around your party members, and use the triggers and buttons to quickly pull up and maneuver through radial wheels containing all of your options. If you're like me, and just want to spam Magic Missile (my apologies to Bioware; I do realize Dragon Age has a different name for your basic wizard bullet, but I'm blanking on it at the moment), you can assign spells/abilities to the face buttons for easy casting/spamming.

Moving on, the Bioblog has Part 2 of their Toolset event coverage:

Builders, or modders, specifically are another integral part of our long term strategy for DA:O. Community created content is a great way to keep fans playing the game, as well as attracting new fans to the franchise.

With DA:O we will be supporting this segment of our community more than any of our previous titles, and working hard to create a much stronger tie between builders and players – after all, players want content, builders want an audience – one of our jobs is going to be to facilitate that and then get the heck out of the way. I’ll cover more on the ways we’ll be doing this in the near future as well.