Dragon Age 2

[Ouch!]

Finished the demo. The conversation wheel with the images indicating tone of the dialogue is definitely an improvement. I'm also impressed with the new attribute distribution screen and how it shows the exact correlation of the core stats and the various other stats that they affect in turn. The skill trees are also an improvement over their Dragon Age: Origins counterparts.

The battle system is certainly more frantic than the previous title. Not entirely sure how I feel about it just yet. It definitely flows much more on consoles than it did before, which is an improvement if you're playing that version, I suppose. My only concern is that it feels that the demand for tactics has all but disappeared. Then again, I imagine that might be different on higher difficulty settings; you could pretty much go in guns blazin' in Dragon Age: Origins on most difficulties and for most encounters anyway.

New gameplay footage. Spoilers in that video, I suppose. It's some gameplay from the mission which results in the acquisition of the character Fenris. Who else recognizes the voice actor?