Use this guide if you experience crashes!

The only problem I had with this beautiful game is that the game constantly crashed on start-up or when i got into the character creator. Upon looking up the problem, it needed a fix because of memory leak issues. After that fix, the game worked 100%.

Now that you can play the game, we get on to the REAL review.

Dragon Age: Origins is one of the best medieval RPGs I've ever played. As soon as you hit it off with Alistair, You can already tell you're going to have a great time. It's a setting of great despair and chaos, so it's nice to have a friendly face around. That is, until Morrigan comes along. Quite unfriendly..., but she's hot so who cares? Soon after, we have a band of plucky companions who will have conversations with each other. Depending on your relationships, they may grow to love you, or hate you. Should you choose to even romance a companion, someone may get jealous. Yeah, It gets real spicy in this magical world.

As for the combat, if you've ever played anything like Runescape or World of Warcraft, you'll feel right at home. I chose a mage character, and turned out being an absolute force of destruction. Combining spells to make a magic tornado was not on my bingo card. In other games, Mages feel kind of boring or weak, but here they are essential to your team. Blasting ugly Cannibalistic Humanoid Under Dwellers with a fireball never felt so good!

Bioware was at the top of their game for this and it shows. The whole story took me 43 hours to complete, and that was mostly after the main story, not too far into side mission territory. I got an extra 10 hours doing Awakening and Witch Hunt DLCs. When on sale, this game is probably the most bang for your buck, guaranteed.

Dated Graphics, Crashes, Good Story, Great Soundtrack, Engaging Combat, Cool Characters. 7/10

A classic. 9/10