I recently played the Dragon Age 2 demo. And all I can say is amazing. It started off with a group of guards dragging a man into a room. They threw him into a chair and left. Upon which they left and a woman who identified herself as Cassandra Pentaghast Seeker of the Chantry entered the room and began interrogating the man about someone who she referred to as “the champion”. The man gave her a smug grin and began telling her a tale. Of how the champion slew a few dozen enemies, the enemies came in waves. They began to become overrun and a dragon showed up roasting the remaining enemies. Upon which the story ends with Cassandra saying “Bullshit that’s not what really happened.”

“Does that not match the story you’ve heard, Seeker?”
“I’m not interested in legends, I came to hear the truth.”
“What makes you think I know the truth?”
“Don’t lie to me! You knew her(him) before she(he) became the Champion!”
“Even if I did, I don’t know where she(he) is now, I told you that.”
“Do you have and idea what’s at stake here?”
“Let me guess: your precious Chantry’s fallen to pieces and put the entire world on the brink of war? And you need the one person who can help you put it back together.”
“The Champion was at the heart of it when it all began. If you can’t point me to her(him), tell me everything you know.”
“You aren’t worried I’ll just make it up as I go?”
“Will you?”
“Then let me tell you what really happened.”

He then begins to tell a less engaging story of a family attempting to flee from the what are now identified as darkspawn. They have no clue where they are going, the mother comes to the conclusion that they should go to Kirkwall. They travel for a short while longer upon which they end up in the same location as the original story. However this time the fight goes much less favorably. The dragon does eventually show up and save them. This time however the dragon comes down and turns into a human. She offers you a deal, you deliver something for her on your way to Kirkwall and she’ll keep the bulk of the darkspawn army off of your back.

In the end I really liked the demo however I couldn’t help but have trouble with the camera controls. It is a really good game but the fact that you can’t target and attack at the same time was a bit displeasing. It would have been nice to have some sort of auto-targeting system where if I aimed at an enemy it automatically targeted them. The story was amazing but it was expected from Bioware.