Dragon Age Legends

Facebook games. I take pride as a hater and basically you have to agree there are reasons to just hate them. EA however, has decided to take a shot at it themselves (Note: Legends isn't made by PlayFish - FB game company acquired by EA last year).


According to developer EA2D, the studio's mission is to make social games for gamers, and Dragon Age Legends aims to bring role-playing and turn-based combat to the Facebook space. You play as a trusted advisor to Viscount Ravi, who asks you to help rescue his son from danger, which of course sends you on quests. Something like how Dragon Age played out.


Unlike all the majority of Facebook games, you've got to make strategic decisions, or you can screw up in Legends. You need to pick an appropriate balance of companions for combat. If you don't develop enough supplies in your castle, you can go in underequipped - just like the original game. You can attack enemies in the wrong sequence. In other words, there's actually some game in this game.

I've been lucky enough to get into the beta - partly due to the fact that I own Origins and Awakening but then again if anyone else wants to give it a try I've got extra keys! With this game, I believe EA is testing to see if gamers bite. After playing it once I can't say whether it will work but it seems plausible that it just might.