Players will enlist the aid of their Facebook friends to work through a storyline's worth of quests, upgrade characters, build their kingdoms, and earn exclusive unlockable items for use in Dragon Age II, which launches March 8.
Not even Farmville features a world this grim and bloody.Īlthough Dragon Age was rated M for Mature on account of 'intense violence' and 'sexual content,' EA is developing Legends for 'Facebook users of all ages.' The game will also be built around casual and social play styles commonly seen on the networking site. Next February, the swords-and-sorcery series will expand into more uncharted territory with a new Facebook game called Dragon Age Legends. Last year, the Electronic Arts-owned developer used Dragon Age to explore browser-based gaming with the Dragon Age Journeys spin-off.
Though Dragon Age is firmly ensconced in a medieval fantasy world, the series is in some ways more forward looking than BioWare's futuristic sci-fi role-playing game series, Mass Effect.
