We’ve laid hands on a couple of copies of Dragon Age: Origins. One PS3, the other PC.
Rob from the Treasure RPG team has set off to try out the PS3 version. He reckons he’ll get close to the 60 hours suggested playing time.
Dragon Age: Origins Collector’s Edition
I’m more tortoise than hare, so I’m hoping I’ll get there with about 70 or 80 hours gameplay. Especially when I’m going to make things slightly more complicated than absolutely necessary. I’d like to know if Dragon Age: Origins will run under Windows 7 Pro and play well with my existing hardware. To do that I need to upgrade the machine I’m using to Win 7 and quickly. To help me out I’m going to install Windows on a second hard disc partition and run Ninite’s Multiple Apps Installer.
The separate partition lets me boot out to XP if I have to and Ninite promises to download and self-install loads of applications. There are too many to list them all but the well known include: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird, VLC, WinAmp, Picassa, Inkscape, Gimp, OpenOffice, Avast, AVG, Java, Flash, .NET, Silverlight, Evernote, Imgburn, Revo, WinRAR, 7-Zip, Notepad++ and Filezilla.
If all that works Dragon Age: Origins should be up and running within a few hours. Hopefully, we’ll get the results in by the end of Monday.
