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You are Hawke, a refugee seeking to escape the darkspawn-plagued land of Ferelden and become Champion of Kirkwall. Rise to power and fight epic battles while making decisions that determine the course of civilization.

Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition is a rpg, adventure and fantasy game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on June 04th 2020 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 6,537 reviews of which 5,311 were positive and 1,226 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista with SP3, SP2 or windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (or equivalent) running at 1.8 GHz or greater; AMD Athlon 64 X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8 GHz or greater
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB; NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256 MB cards
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 7 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Direct X 9.0c Compatible Sound Card Windows Experience Index: 4.5

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July 2025
Bioware's most flawed masterpiece. I have always been this entries biggest defender, even when the controversy of its release was at its most fresh. This game received a lot of derision at first release, but time heals wounds and as the series has strayed further and further from the template set by Origins, you can look at this game with eyes less clouded by that games shadow. The flaws still exist, but the core design of what make Origins so special still exists in this game, with arguably the best characters in the series. The combat system is a simplification of Origins by most measures, however of all the sequels it still manages to keep a lot of the core systems in place. You still have AI tactics, that allow a level of granularity that Inquisition lost a lot of. You still have full control of your party in a real time with pause system that Veilguard abandoned. The combat is a lot snappier than Origins, and that gives the false impression it is a more action oriented affair. In harder difficulties, you still need to approach encounters with a tactical eye... but that brings attention to DA II's biggest failing. The encounter design is bad, most encounters are a wave based affair. The battlefields will routinely drop in supplemental enemies to fight, so you can never make a good initial evaluation of the situation. This is compounded with reinforcements always covering pretty much all sides of the zone, so you can't plan ahead for logical routes they might take. You basically just have to plan to be surrounded again every time you wipe out a group. This unfortunately makes combat fatigue set in a lot more than it needs to. The game would have benefited by dropping the wave design and just beefing up individual enemies, that way combat still had a challenge but you could make better tactical decisions. The world design of the best in the series. Kirkwall is such a well developed city, with history and lore dispersed throughout and the artistic vision executed fantastically. The game looses some of the more realistic tones of Origins, but I think time has treated this games graphics so much better than Origins. Chasing realism only gives you short term qualities, an artstyle that accepts the limitations of what they were given with systems at the time can be appreciated long past the hardware cycles that may have been the determining factor for the style. This unfortunately brings us to the most infamous problem with DA II. The reusing of dungeon maps for multiple quests. This is definitely a noticeable issue, but outside of the first playthrough, I don't find this to be a big detriment. I have always found the wave based combat to be a bigger issue with the game, but the community as a whole decided the asset reuse was the bigger issue (Which led to the map bloat of DA I, which is a worse issue to me personally). Either you can accept it, or you can't. It is what it is, and I don't see a big reason to dwell on it. The story in this game sets up and continues so much of what Origins started, I think it makes a great sequel. The few changes and retcons, like the visual representation of the Qunari, pay off that I have no problems accepting them. The later sequels had a big problem with toning conflicts and darker elements way down, but this game revels in it. The ethical dilemmas of the various nations and organizations are not only fully in play still, they define the entire outline of the story. Tevinter isn't whitewashed into a free and noble nation like in DA V, the Crows are still pretty despicable assassins, and the city of Kirkwall was built on the framework of oppressive slave trade and the entire architecture of the city represents that. The history of the city leaves ripples that the party has to deal with 100s of years after the fact. Classism, racism, slavery, abuse, themes that even Inquisition started to shy away from are directly confronted in this game. This is the only other game after Origins that embraces these elements and makes interesting scenarios from them. The characters in this story are the biggest shining element. Of course, this is entirely subjective, but I have always found this entry to have the best party in the series. Unless you game the approval system, playing the story naturally will always have a team member opposing a bigger decision. There isn't a peaceful solution for the overall story. You can't be the perfect good guy. Now, there are fewer opportunities to be a comically bad guy like Origins, but if you accept that your character is more like a Mass Effect Shepard than a free form character like Origins, you still have a lot of play in how you shape the character and your decisions can have massive changes in how your character acts and how the team treats them. Your decisions are made in a very similar way to the Mass Effect 2 vague Good Sarcastic Drastic decision wheel, but in the confines of this series, this is a simplification of Origins but better than the following games. Your party members have a good depth and well developed personalities to reflect that. They kind of fall into the trap of being a little too quippy that has kind of been too played out at this point, everyone kind of has their own Alistair style comments, but outside of that each character leaves a distinct impression. Varric might be the best character in the series, but I might be biased. You could take most comments from the game, and instantly be able to recognize who said them even without context. I would maybe have like more interactions with each character, but that is because each character is so good I just want more of it. This game is so old at this point, so I doubt anyone will even see this review. Even knowing a review this long for a game largely left behind in time will probably never be read, I still felt compelled to right this after replaying it. Sadly my 360 died long ago, but the sale price of this game was stupid cheap, and the PC version is still pretty playable, even with the EA bloat. I was very happy to replay this game that I spent multiple playthroughs years ago/
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Dec. 2024
Literally the best main cast in any Dragon Age game, no unlikeable characters. Merrill my beloved.
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Dec. 2024
The story is fine, the gameplay and scenarios are just too repetitive with a lot of repeated backtracking. But, considering this was the result of only a 15-month dev cycle, it's pretty impressive.
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Nov. 2024
Dragon Age II is a mess and I absolutely adore it. It's some of the rawest environments, characters, and combat BioWare has ever delivered. Kirkwall is a dump, your companions are delusional wrecks, and the torment never ceases.
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Nov. 2024
Playing Veilguard reminded me of how exceptional BioWare used to be at crafting compelling characters and engaging stories. The fact that this incomplete, rushed game—developed in just 14 months—outshines BioWare’s recent titles in key RPG elements like dialogue, companions, and overall narrative quality, really underscores how much the studio has lost its touch.
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Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

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Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition received 5,311 positive votes out of a total of 6,537 achieving a rating of 7.90.
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Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition was developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition is not playable on MacOS.

Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition is not playable on Linux.

Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition is a single-player game.

Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition does not currently offer any DLC.

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Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition PEGI 18
Rating
7.9
5,311
1,226
Game modes
Online players
156
Developer
BioWare
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Release 04 Jun 2020
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