| But Why Tho? |
Eddie De Santiago |
10 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age The Veilguard is a massive new world full of thoughtful stories, epic battles, and beautiful visuals to accompany them. This round of companions is among the most interesting, thoughtful, and downright charismatic, and adventuring with them made for an unforgettable journey. |
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| Cerealkillerz |
Nick Erlenhof |
8 / 10 |
11-05-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a return to old form, albeit not the best form. The action-packed battles with tactical elements are once again a lot of fun and the characters, both good and evil, bring the usual Bioware quality. It could have been a bit more stringent and there aren’t many really important decisions, but this is the studio’s best title since Mass Effect 3. |
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| CGMagazine |
Dayna Eileen |
10 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
From style to story and everything in between, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is everything I wanted from this entry in the Dragon Age universe. |
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| Checkpoint Gaming |
Luke Mitchell |
10 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a triumphant return to form for one of gaming’s most loved developers. It’s an epic and grandiose RPG adventure, interwoven with intimate, powerful stories about its cast of endearing and quirky companions. It has a truly stunning world to explore, with hidden secrets, alluring side quests and a literal treasure trove of lore to comb through. Its tight, in-depth combat systems and breadth of accessibility options deliver a highly personalised experience. But beyond the adventure itself, it’s another shining testament to diversity and inclusivity, polished to near perfection in its presentation. Put simply, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Dragon Age at its most captivating, a truly generational adventure that is as heartfelt as it is thrilling. |
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| Chicas Gamers |
Álvaro Bustío |
Recommended |
11-05-2024 |
Returning to Thedas has never been so fun! Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the installment that Dragon Age fans have been waiting for almost 10 years and that will surely not leave anyone indifferent. |
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| COGconnected |
Mark Steighner |
90 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
Polished and confident, Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels like a return to form for the developer. Dragon Age: The Veilguard gives us a beautiful world to experience, interesting allies to explore it with, and action that grows increasingly more nuanced throughout. |
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| Daily Mirror |
Aaron Potter |
4 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Combat is sadly the weak link in this particular chain, but even then, it’s not an outright disaster and can offer a good amount of flexibility. Where it counts, The Veilguard succeeds in being the momentous fantasy epic long-time fans have been waiting 10 years for, jam-packed with interesting characters to meet and fun activities to do, all against the backdrop of an appropriately calamitous world-saving mission that surprised me multiple times. A few niggles aside, the future is once again bright for both Dragon Age just as much as it is for the RPG veterans at Bioware. |
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| Destructoid |
Steven Mills |
Recommended |
10-28-2024 |
The combat is fluid and satisfying, and the world of Thedas is well-designed and fun to explore. The story has its drawbacks, but overall it’s still better than most. Whether it will live up to the prestigious storytelling of the previous Dragon Age games will very much depend on the RPG’s curtain call. |
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| Dexerto |
Ethan Dean |
4 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a stellar achievement that ends a decade-long dry spell. It tells one of the best stories in the series fuelled by some of its most memorable characters. It’s not a flawless journey but the minor imperfections don’t detract from one of 2024’s best RPGs. |
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| Digital Chumps |
Ben Sheene |
9.5 / 10 |
07-22-2022 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard crystallizes what made both the series and BioWare a force to be reckoned with over a decade ago. An emphasis on memorable characters and personalized combat allows this new entry to swell with magic, proving the developer still has stories to tell. |
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| Digital Trends |
Tomas Franzese |
3.5 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a return to form for this once-lauded RPG studio that should satiate Dragon Age fans quite well after a decade-long wait. But returning to form and perfecting form are not the same thing. BioWare has plenty of room to regrow as it gets back on track making the kinds of games RPG fans want them to create. |
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| Digitally Downloaded |
Matt Sainsbury |
2.5 / 5 stars |
11-05-2024 |
So, yeah, sure. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an objectively well-made product that is perfectly playable and it’s both empowering and entertaining. But it’s also nothing more than a product, finely tuned for passive consumption, right off the content mill. |
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| DualShockers |
Callum Marshall |
8.5 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a compelling new entry in the series, taking the franchise in a new direction with more RPG-lite ideals. This decision will alienate Die Hard fans but will undoubtedly win favor with new fans willing to embrace the series. |
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| Eurogamer |
Robert Purchese |
Recommended |
10-28-2024 |
A fantasy role-playing game of astonishing spectacle. This is the best Dragon Age, and perhaps BioWare, has ever been. |
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| Eurogamer.pt |
Bruno Galvão |
4 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
With a spectacular and fun action combat system, simplified RPG mechanics, a strong story and cast, not forgetting the design of hubs that grow the more time you spend in them, Bioware delivers an unexpected but incredibly captivating game. |
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| Everyeye.it |
Alessandro Bruni |
7.5 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
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| Evilgamerz |
Christiaan Ribbens |
9.2 / 10 |
11-05-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a triumphant return for the series, combining compelling storytelling, intricate character interactions, and action-packed combat into an RPG that feels both fresh and timeless. The game plays to BioWare’s strengths, creating an adventure that will keep fans and newcomers busy for dozens of hours. The world is super cool, and the regions all look completely different. The story is top-notch, the presentation is of an extremely high quality, and the combat is deep and tactical. It’s a shame that the dialogues won’t be equally interesting to every player. |
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| Game Rant |
Joshua Duckworth |
5 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
After 100 hours and 3 playthroughs of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I feel justified in my ten-year wait and satisfied by the results. |
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| Gameblog |
Unknown |
8 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Eager to redeem itself with its community, BioWare took the time to deliver what is probably one of its most successful productions in a long time and one of the best games in the saga. Between its epic and touching storytelling, its endearing characters, its captivating fights that can be modulated to the will of the eye, its sublime environments that we enjoy exploring or its answers to long-standing questions, Dragon Age The Veilguard is one of the best action-RPG games of this year. Newcomers will be welcomed with open arms by a story that sometimes flirts with the spectacular. The fans of the first hour will regret that the roleplay dimension that made the reputation of the studio is more behind. Dragon Age The Veilguard is more about evolution than revolution, but BioWare is finally back. |
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| Gamepressure |
Krzysztof Lewandowski |
6 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
This isn’t the end of Dragon Age that I was expecting |
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| GamePro |
Eleen Reinke |
92 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
he story is full of dark but also epic moments that will stay with me for a long time; decisions that I had made many hours before and had already half forgotten suddenly change the course of a mission and even though I had to make one or two tough choices and not every character made it to the end, I wouldn’t change anything. Well, maybe in a second playthrough… |
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| Gamer Guides |
Tom Hopkins |
92 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a phenomenal return to form for BioWare. The story is well-paced and the cast of characters are the trademark BioWare staple of fully-realised, but it’s in the newly action-oriented combat where things truly shine. |
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| gameranx |
Unknown |
Recommended |
11-01-2024 |
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| Gamersky |
心灵奇兵 |
7.8 / 10 |
10-31-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is undoubtedly a competent ARPG, with some commendable elements in its combat and exploration. However, it’s disappointing that, aside from the impressive art design and nostalgic appearances of certain characters from previous entries, it feels like BioWare has strayed from the series’ original essence. The familiarity is there, but it lacks the deeper connection that longtime fans might have hoped for. |
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| GAMES.CH |
Olaf Bleich |
87 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
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| GameSpot |
Jordan Ramée |
7 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
The Veilguard feels like a return to form for BioWare but issues keep it from being great. |
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| GamesRadar+ |
Rollin Bishop |
4.5 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an approachable, expansive action-oriented RPG and feels like a true end to whatever the franchise was before. The book’s not finished, but a significant chapter has closed. While Dragon Age: The Veilguard is undoubtedly different in many ways from its predecessors and takes lessons learned from Mass Effect to heart, there’s a lot to love – mechanically and narratively – about the new normal and what is hopefully a foundation for what’s to come. |
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| GamingBolt |
Ravi Sinha |
7 / 10 |
11-03-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a serviceable addition to the series but falls short in nearly every metric that made it great. |
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| GamingTrend |
Ron Burke |
85 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
The writing can be overwrought, written by committee, and occasionally forced, but it’s also a major step forward for a team that needs the win. Dragon Age: The Veilguard brings us compelling characters, excellent combat, and a world worth saving. |
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| God is a Geek |
Mick Fraser |
9 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Despite a few visual and audio issues, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is just a really good time, plain and simple. |
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| GRYOnline.pl |
Anna Garas |
7 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the best game BioWare has made since Mass Effect 3. It is crafted much better in terms of story and gameplay than DA: Inquisition (I find this game mediorce at best), and is superior to Andromeda in every way. But the things that used to dazzle me right now are „only” good. There’s more to accomplish in the genre than that. |
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| Guardian |
Malindy Hetfeld |
3 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
There is lots to do in this huge and beautiful fantasy world, but inconsistent writing and muted combat dull its blade |
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| Hobby Consolas |
David Rodriguez |
90 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
: Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a strong return for the series. BioWare plays it safe by delivering a classic fantasy RPG adventure backed by fresh, dynamic combat. You may have seen everything in the game before, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a hugely enjoyable experience. |
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| IGN |
Leana Hafer |
9 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard refreshes and reinvigorates a storied series that stumbled through its middle years, and leaves no doubt that it deserves its place in the RPG pantheon. The next Mass Effect is going to have a very tough act to follow, which is not something I ever imagined I’d be saying before I got swept away on this adventure. |
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| IGN Italy |
Francesco Destri |
7.5 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a more than decent return for BioWare’s fantasy series, thanks mainly to a compelling storyline and a good combat system. However, the graphic compartment, the lack of RPG depth, and very repetitive gameplay gimmicks contribute to lowering the final rating. |
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| IGN Spain |
Rafa Del Río |
9 / 10 |
11-05-2024 |
BioWare manages to recover in Dragon Age: The Veilguard the good tone of his youth with a proposal that convinces by the good work of the team. A deep story that returns us to a magical world of Thedas whose regions reinvent themselves for the occasion. A very well designed combat and the possibility of exploring in depth the different scenarios as we advance in the adventure are the finishing touch of an experience that leaves us more than satisfied. |
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| Kakuchopurei |
Jonathan Leo |
60 / 100 |
11-05-2024 |
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| Kotaku |
Kenneth Shepard |
Recommended |
10-28-2024 |
The long-awaited fourth entry in BioWare’s fantasy series isn’t just good, it’s some of the studio’s best work |
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| Merlin’in Kazanı |
Can Göksel |
72 / 100 |
10-29-2024 |
When the long-awaited game comes out clichéd, we have no words to describe our disappointment. Unfortunately, Veilguard fell far short of our expectations. |
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| Metro GameCentral |
Nick Gillett |
9 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
A triumphant return for BioWare, with a massive, action-intensive fantasy role-player, that combines a complex and intuitive fighting system with a great script and a glorious looking world to explore. |
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| MMORPG.com |
Steven Weber |
8.8 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
The game may stumble occasionally in its technical aspects, but its core—compelling storytelling, rich character relationships, and engaging combat—makes it an easy recommendation for not just BioWare fans, but any RPG fan. |
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| NoobFeed |
Ahnaf Tajwar |
45 / 100 |
11-02-2024 |
We were really hoping Dragon Age: The Veilguard would be the big, satisfying comeback that would remind us why BioWare was once an RPG powerhouse. But it just doesn’t make the cut. Instead, it makes us wonder if BioWare can still create games like the Mass Effect trilogy and the early Dragon Age titles as they did. If this is what the future of Dragon Age looks like, maybe it’s time to give the series a break. |
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| PC Gamer |
Lauren Morton |
79 / 100 |
10-28-2024 |
A genuinely enjoyable, gorgeous action-RPG that lacks the storytelling nuance of previous Dragon Age games. |
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| PlayStation Universe |
Garri Bagdasarov |
9.5 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a must-have RPG this holiday season. There is so much that Veilguard brings to the table that it’s hard to find something to dislike. Veilguard is a complete package that gives you everything you could ever wish for in an action-RPG, and is without a doubt a return to form for BioWare. |
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| PPE.pl |
Wojciech Gruszczyk |
7 / 10 |
11-03-2024 |
A great main plot, interesting companions and numerous simplifications. BioWare didn’t know until the end which way it wanted to go and prepared a game that won’t satisfy all the studio’s fans. And unfortunately, far too much depends on what class you choose at the beginning. |
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| Press Start |
James Berich |
10 / 10 |
10-29-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a triumph for BioWare in practically every way. It brings together the best bits of all the games that have come before it, pairing an intricately woven narrative ripe with genuine choice and consequences with a fast, frenetic and endlessly satisfying combat system. The Veilguard is, without a doubt, Dragon Age at it’s best. |
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| Push Square |
Robert Ramsey |
8 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn’t quite BioWare back to its absolute best, but it is the most cohesive and emotionally engaging RPG that the studio has delivered since Mass Effect 3. Its shift to crunchy action combat is an improvement over Inquisition’s middle-of-the-road approach, and although the game feels a little light on meaningful player choice, the storytelling pulls no punches when it actually matters. This is a gorgeous and gripping adventure, backed by a cast of endearing heroes and deliciously devious villains. |
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| Rock, Paper, Shotgun |
Nic Reuben |
Recommended |
10-28-2024 |
I’m not sure an hour passed in the fourth entry in Bioware’s fantasy RPG series where I didn’t wish they’d handled something differently. Then, once the credits rolled after 50 hours, I started a second playthrough. |
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| RPG Fan |
Audra Bowling |
95 / 100 |
11-01-2024 |
It has heart and plenty of emotion alongside a found family cast with some of the best personal character questlines I’ve experienced in a game. It’s evident that there’s a deep respect for the DA lore and titles that came before, and I love how The Veilguard takes vital points of so many BioWare games and builds upon them. |
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| RPG Site |
Josh Tolentino |
7 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
But though it’s ultimately held back its shortcomings, the other highs of Dragon Age: The Veilguard |
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| RPGamer |
Alex Fuller |
3.5 / 5 stars |
11-05-2024 |
It should be said that for all of the criticism to be made about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, there’s nothing it outright does poorly. It is absolutely lots of fun in the moment, and the cast is worthy of note. However, when all is said and done, there’s little that sticks in the memory. |
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| Screen Rant |
Carrie Lambertsen |
4.5 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a beautiful RPG. |
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| SECTOR.sk |
Táňa Matúšová |
7 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
The latest chapter in the Dragon Age saga successfully combines the best of semi-open-world gameplay with a balanced and engaging combat system. While Dragon Age: The Veilguard falls short of previous installments in areas like side quests, story choices, and dialogue depth, it excels in combat quality, world design, and audiovisual presentation, delivering some of the most epic battles in the series. This game is a roller-coaster experience; at its peak, it entertained and amazed me, yet at times, its lack of depth dampened my enthusiasm. |
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| Shacknews |
TJ Denzer |
7 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
A game that is technically sound, and very beautiful, but fails to get its hooks in where it counts, and I feel like among other great RPGs that have come out just this year, Veilguard will have a hard time standing out. |
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| Skill Up |
Ralph Panebianco |
Not Recommended |
10-28-2024 |
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| Stevivor |
Hamish Lindsay |
8.5 / 10 |
10-29-2024 |
Dragon Age The Veilguard is the epitome of ‘better than the sum of its parts’. It’s been so long since I experienced this level of joy in a long-form RPG; I have a compulsion to keep playing and finish one more quest. |
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| TechRaptor |
Erren Van Duine |
9.5 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard delivers an incredible experience built on fluid combat, deep lore and characters, and player choice. All of this is wrapped up in a polished package that is a must play for Dragon Age fans and RPG fans alike. |
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| The Games Machine |
Nicholas Mercurio |
7.8 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a work that arrives after ten years at the proverbial litmus test. It is immediately clear how complex the project has been and how the gaming world has changed over time. Strong of a nice combat system, a convincing narrative and a good development of relationships with the other characters, on some points it does not fully succeed in reaching the goal. I admit that so many words are actually too many, and I actually hope that someone has made it to the end… But there could really be no other analysis for such a delicate work. It will be the sales that will decide if it will be the actual relaunch of the series. In addition, of course, to us players of the franchise. |
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| TheGamer |
Stacey Henley |
4 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a Dragon Age game like no other, and that alone will put some people off. But it brings with it the traditions of excellent character writing, strong world building through narrative quests, and offers the most exciting combat the series has ever seen. There is a stronger version of The Veilguard in here, one with more Solas and companion quests that find a more natural ending, but the one we’ve got is still a worthy successor to Dragon Age: Inquisition, and is a much needed return to form for BioWare. |
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| VG247 |
Alex Donaldson |
Not Recommended |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is full of heart and soul. It’s also got some great ideas. Conversely, many of those ideas feel like they struggle to get out of first gear |
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| VGC |
Jordan Middler |
3 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels like BioWare playing it too safe. While it nails what it does best, like the excellent cast and interpersonal relationships, from a gameplay perspective it feels out of date. |
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| Wccftech |
Alessio Palumbo |
9 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
From a visual standpoint, the game succeeds in providing many different biomes to explore as the party treks across Northern Thedas, fulfilling BioWare’s promise to bring players to more locations than ever before. The environments generally look great, while the characters are a bit more of a hit-and-miss in that some are almost photorealistic and others look more stylized. In that regard, more uniformity would have been ideal. |
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| Windows Central |
Samuel Tolbert |
4 / 5 stars |
10-28-2024 |
Some story reveals aren’t expounded on nearly enough for my taste, and I certainly wish we had more time to explore some regions of Thedas that we’re finally getting to see in a game. I’ll forever mourn no longer directly controlling my companions. When all is said and done though, every prior Dragon Age game has managed to make me feel something, to grow attached to characters, cheering for their victories and mourning their passing. By that ultimate personal metric, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a success. |
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| Worth Playing |
Chris “Atom” DeAngelus |
8 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is and isn’t the game I wanted it to be. It’s a rollicking fun story where you fight monsters, save lives, and lead your plucky team of adventurers against impossible odds. At the same time, it feels more like Mass Effect than Dragon Age, and since The Veilguard is the climax of a story, it might be difficult for newcomers to hop into. If I set aside my expectations, it’s a pretty darn fun action-RPG that stands well on its own. |
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| XboxEra |
Jesse Norris |
10 / 10 |
10-28-2024 |
Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn’t just in my Game of the Year rankings, it’s in my Best Games of All Time. BioWare has finally matched their recent excellent third-person combat with some of, if not their best, story work to date. This game is an absolute triumph for those old and new to the series. |
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