14 DAY TRIAL // Dragon Age: Inquisition is one of the most interesting video game launches of the coming fall season and the development team at BioWare says that the accompanying Keep concept is designed to be useful for both veterans of the series and for those who are now experiencing it for the first time.
The service will be launched before the actual video game and is designed to allow anyone to simply explore the decisions that were included in previous titles in the series and choose which ones to use in order to reshape the world of the series.
Players can even create their old characters, and Keep is designed to offer plenty of context, using both text and video, in order to make sure that players always get the info they need to make a decision.
Cameron Lee, a producer working on the coming Dragon Age experience, tells VG247 that “It’ll automatically change the world based on that. The beauty is that if you’ve lost your saved games, or if you want to go from 360 to PS4 then you can do that now, whereas if you just used the saved games you wouldn’t be able to. It’s pretty cool.”
The Keep will include an algorithm that will flag all the conflicting choices a player makes and will then ask them to correct their decisions in order to create a coherent world for the start of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
BioWare wants to test the system using a beta stage which will be officially announced soon.
Lee adds, “If you haven’t played the previous games, you don’t need to go to the Keep. You can just get the world state as it is. Or, if you want to, you could go to the Keep even as a new player, and say, ‘Well, what are the big events that have been happening in the Dragon Age world?’ It’s just like a bit of an introduction. I think it’s a good tool for new fans and existing fans if they want to use it.”
Dragon Age: Inquisition asks players to close down a tear in the Veil which is allowing demons from the Fade to attack the world of the living.
The game will be the first in the series to include a cooperative multiplayer mode.
Dragon Age: Inquisition will be out on November 18 on the PC, the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One and last-gen consoles.