Dragon Age Origins Awakening is the standalone expansion to DAO with Warden-Commander and a new Corypheus threat. Solid content, new skills and deepened companion origins. Essential for DAO fans.
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Category
RPG1 player18+
Description
Standalone expansion for Dragon Age: Origins placing the player at the head of a new Grey Warden company following the Blight's defeat. Published by EA, released in Japan in March 2010. New region to explore, fresh companions, commander powers, main campaign choice import, and substantial playtime.
Dragon Age - Origins - Awakening review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
The expansion brings the supernatural into view. Justice, a spirit lodged in a dead man's decaying body, walks beside the hero, and the Blackmarsh tips into the spirit otherworld, bathed in a sickly green. Where the base game kept the beyond at a distance, this addition shows the porous border between the living and the realm of dreams.
Over a tighter threat, the music takes on a martial, direct bearing. Gone is the base game's long mourning: the Warden-Commander leads assaults, and the score follows, sustained rhythms and decisive brass that push forward rather than weep. The expansion gains the energy of a military campaign, more biting than solemn.
Promoted to Warden-Commander, the hero inherits a leader's burden: to rebuild a decimated order, recruit companions, govern the arling of Amaranthine. The adventure peaks on a command dilemma, when one must choose between defending the fortress and saving the city, each paid for with the other. To lead, here, weighs as much as to fight.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"Mild"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Difficult"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾4,4 GB📅16/03/2010
Published by Electronic Arts
Dragon Age - Origins - Awakening (PS3) price, value & rarity
Is Dragon Age - Origins - Awakening still worth playing in 2026?
An expansion to BioWare's RPG, Dragon Age Origins Awakening extends the Origins adventure with a new campaign where the hero, now commander of the Grey Wardens, faces a fresh threat among the darkspawn. New companions, spells and narrative arcs enrich an already deep, tactically assisted turn based combat system. The density of the writing and the strategic depth appeal to fans of the base game. Without it the interest drops. A good expansion for fans of tactical Western RPGs and the Dragon Age universe.
