Dragon Age Legends Review (Facebook Game)

Overall Score: Two scores: Willing to Pay Real Money: 5.5/10, Not Willing: 2/10 (not worth the amount of money you would end up spending)


Genre: Turn Based RPG
Systems: PC (Facebook)
Release Date: Q1 2011
Publishers/Developers: EA2D/BioWare

EA2D is known for: Dragon Age Journeys, Mirror's Edge 2D

BioWare is known for: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Knights of the Old Republic, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights

Gameplay: 7/10 

• Turn based combat
• Level up hero and get points to increase stats, upgrade skills, and your castle
• Can unlock items to use in Dragon Age 2 via your EA account
• Get XP from killing enemies and items/gold from winning battles
• Equip slots include: Perks, Weapons (can hold two at a time), Armor, Accessories, and Items
• Can add points to: Attack, Defense, Stamina, Agility, and Luck.
• Can add skill points to your skill tree which are composed of these categories: Offense, Defense, Concentrate (increase chances of critical hits, etc..), and Training (increases attack damage of certain weapons)
• Items have the ability to give you resistances: Melee, Ranged, Magic, Fire, Cold, Nature, and Electric
• You have friends at the bottom of the screen that you can call into battle to help you, these can be your facebook friends or NPC's which are computer controlled characters, after using these friends once in battle you have to wait about 2 hours before using them again, unless you use crowns to call them into battle sooner, you start out with a small amount of crowns and in order to get more you need to spend REAL MONEY and it's not cheep (very very frustrating)
• Need energy to move across the map from battle to battle, when you're low you either have to buy more using crowns (see above rant) or wait, you get 1 energy every 4 minutes, it takes about 3 energy to move to the next battle

Story: 5/10

• The opening video is awesome!
• The story was never very clear, but apparently you're an ally of Viscount Ravi, the Viscount of the city of Kaiten who overthrew his demon possessed uncle Khedra 13 years earlier. Now Ravi's son Eiton is in trouble, and Ravi needs your help to save him. (courtesy of IGN.com)

Graphics: 5/10

• It's a facebook game so I wasn't expecting much
• Animation is decent
• Character models look pretty good
• Backgrounds and environments don't look up to par

Sound: 5/10

• Music is the same and boring, I heard two different songs the whole time I was playing
• Battle sound effects are great
• All communication is done in text

Replay Value: Medium

• Lots of upgrades, weapons, and items
• 3 classes to choose from: Warrior, Rogue, and Mage

If you like this game you might also like:

• Dragon Age Journeys
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Dragon Age 2

All in all this is a very in depth for a facebook game. I actually had a good time with it until I got to the point where I needed to spend my "real life loot". I say nay to that! There are many instances where you find yourself needing crowns. This was very frustrating to me. My diagnosis: fun for a few hours if you're not willing to fork out the dough, fun for countless hours if you're rich (not worth the money it would end up costing). Save your money, you can spend it on much better games. Too bad, this could've been a great game.