The essence of Dragon Age: Inquisition is something I’ve not quite seen in any game similar, you play as a fully customisable character first known as ‘ The Herald of Andraste ‘ supposedly a vassal of the divines and your all round basic hero type.

You’ll quickly realise though that you’re not in for your usual running around hacking at everything in sight whilst saving the princess, BioWare has something very different in mind for you. You’re very quickly thrown into the world of politics that surrounds the civil war between Templars and Mages currently raging around you. If you think that isn’t enough action, there are loads of tears in reality, spilling demons and god knows what else laying about too, just to make your job that little bit harder.

The game has an extremely large and expansive world, spanning across several continents and locations. In fact, this large world is so full of other things to do, like helping out some farmers and clearing out wolf packs that you’ll probably spend most of your time running around it. Did I mention crafting? Yeah there’s a bunch of that.. and you’ll have to trek miles across each region looking for that one bloody crafting item you needed for that extra shiny sword you wanted. What’s great about this though is that you don’t feel like you’re being inconvenienced at all, everything is new and wondrous, there’s always something else to do and your character is progressing throughout all of this.

Inquisition includes a new feature called ‘ tactical view ‘, now if you’re an RTS nut like me and you feel the need to strategise every single move you make before you jump in and start stabbing things, you will absolutely love this. Using the view you can give orders to the other poor sods you’ve happened to pick up on your travels, and the system actually works extremely well bar a few camera mishaps, given a bit of time to get used to it you’ll be good to go.

The one thing that bothers me though, is the lack of end-game storyline. The game starts you off in a world in peril and watches as you begin bringing order back, after a while you’re left to go and stab your bandits whilst the inquisition runs itself and you begin to wonder ‘ What next? ‘ Replayability isn’t very high on this besides playing through as a different class to master the skills and find a comfortable role.

The game also has a well polished online co-op system, the character you make is separated completely from your single player saves, and you get to run through a plethora of dangerous dungeons and creepy caverns on your search for epic loot. I would recommend this game for the single player alone, but the co-op is the icing on the cake for me.

For me, Inquisition is a hardy game, glaringly close to skyrim in quality, which is a compliment.