Good game. I play and I allow my 14yo to play. There is the ability at a point in the game for your toon to have sex with either a man or a woman. But its not too bad.

Terrific RPG, lots of issues are brought up across the 80+ hours of gameplay. Bioware is renown for their story-intensive games, and DA:O is no exception. It will immerse you completely n a fantasy world and give you a number of "morally ambiguous" choices to make. Your decisions do not have a huge effect on the game world, but they should give your family many topic of discussion as matters of life and death, loyalty, friendship, and all manner of human relationships are explored.

This particular game is a big stride in the gaming with really realistic character responses and personalities. You have a choice of what race between Elf,Human, and Dwarf, each with unique background history which you will experience. Though dwarf and elf each have a type of 'commoner' background which you can choose. The game itself is easy to pick up and play given a few minutes to learn the controls and how the spell system works. The violence is quite high, but you can turn off 'persistent gore' which prevent your character from being cover in blood. But that does not turn it off at all. Out of random depending on your character (warrior,rogue,melee only) your character may do a 'finish move' automatically, from stabbing the enemy through the chest to spinning around and decapitation of them. The characters you will meet have a wide variety of personalities. From the dark and not-so-friendly Morrigan to the friendly positive natured Wynn. Did i mention there is a always drunken dwarf? He's hilarious with his adult jokes and comments. The story, as any Bioware game is dark and desperate. Your become a 'grey warden' or legendary warden according to lore. Not wanting to spoil story, but you will travel the land gathering allies, and rallying dwarf,human,mage, and elven army to fight the demonic darkspawn that pillage and burn the land during the very rare 'blight'. Again, with a Bioware game you can get to know and sleep with a number of the characters, which includes a sex scene, but it is not much more than the characters rubbing against one another in a sexual manor. What is different is that you can get caught in a love triangle if you decide to flirt and seduce another character while in a relationship with say, 'lilliana' which will force you to choose one or the other. Or neither which will impact they're 'loyalty' meter, lower means they may leave your group if it goes far enough. Farther up means they will stick with you to the end. As for creatures, such as said before in other reviews. Desiree demons are scantily clad demons who delight in seducing then taking over a person for whatever goals. There is one particularly horror type chapter when gaining the dwarf armies loyalty. Including a very large (round) demon and disturbing gory area while looking a legendary dwarven item for the story. The story does have some good role models, such as your first ally Alistair, the priest like Wynn, and others you can recognize easy. In the end, it's a great game with a great story, though i reccomend you buy it for consoles, as the PC version has many mods you can download free which can add A LOT of inappropriate things, such as a whole new sex scene (the scene itself is rated X by even the person who made it.) last note, it's a good idea to use parental vision with this particular game.

Let's get a few things out of the way. Next to Arkham Aslyum, this is perhaps the best game of 2009 (Uncharted 2? Not impressive considering the MGS series). That said, this is indeed a "mature" game, and I honestly believe that this game handles "mature" themes in just that sense, as opposed to the sensational spectacles of games like GTA. Addressing the "questionable" material, I think that with good parental supervision, teens (not tweens) can handle this game. With the exception of a rare special decapitation animation during fighting, the violence in this game could pass for a T rated game. There is plenty of blood, but nothing silly or outrageous like the rivers seen in anime movies. Correcting the Common Sense review, I remember encountering two Desire Demons, who wear something akin to pasties over their nipples. They are succubi, so explaining to your child what a succubi is (and the corruption/sin associated with such sexuality), this should not be alarming to you. It is *supposed* to be arousing (otherwise, they would be sorry excuses for succubi). Those are good teaching moments in the game. There is also another kind of demon in the game which is topless, but it is so grotesque, I doubt it will be a problem. Yes, there are romances in the game, and the sex scenes have the characters in their underwear (btw, every character in the game has a fine-chiseled bodies like Barbies or The Sims characters. There are no flat-chested women in the game and they all have Jessica Biel-style butts). If Twilight is acceptable in your house, none of this will bother you. However, as has been pointed out, there is potential for homosexual relationships. With the female character involved, it is at least portrayed as awkward at first. With the male character, it is more than a bit suggestive. Tracking your child's progress in the game, you can see the "relationship" bar to see how close they are to potentially consummating a relationship, should they wish. So if you've had a talk with your child about sex (if you haven't, someone else will), and they've seen at least one R-rated movie on television (where the commercials cut out the extreme stuff), this game actually is not that bad. I've been gaming for 24 years and I can assure you that there is much, much, worse out there. If I had to pick one game with "mature" themes to expose my child to, this would be one of them. Just imagine a slightly gritter version of Lord of the Rings, and you've got Dragon Age.

Alistair makes all the fan girls go wild which arouses them which means too much sexy stuff. Great game and not very violent.

Dragon Age is a very complex, and relatively difficult RPG. It includes a range of moral choices. While its true that you can opt to make immoral decisions regarding members of your party, the game conditions you to like the characters. If you spend time and get to 'know' the characters and their backgrounds, you find yourself becoming sympathetic to their problems. I actually reloaded the game to avoid losing one of my characters that I enjoyed playing with. The game is quite long, and at its core combines astounding story-telling with some truly challenging fights. Bottom Line Cons: Bloody-this game makes no attempt to hide blood or gore, but there is no dismemberment aside from occasional decapitations (not like Left 4 Dead 2). Although you don't see it, there are quite a few characters you can engage in off screen intimacy with, in both gay or straight relationships. There is some language but its not excessive. Drinking is included in the game, but is mostly the stereotypical 'drunken dwarf' like you would find in a game like world of warcraft or runescape, it's not excessive. Younger children shouldn't be playing the game anyway, but some would find the strategy behind some fights too difficult even on easy, and would likely not understand some of the stories thematic elements. Finally, fantasy loving older kids, and college age students (like myself) will have a blast with this game. Give the game 5 hours, and you suddenly care about everything happening within the games world. Buy it :) you won't regret it.

I really love this game although i havnt finished it. It is more of a mature game but kids that are 13+ shldnt have a problem with most of it. I havnt heard any really bad language, nothing you can't hear kids saying at school. There is some partial nudity from one of the demons because only the nipples are covered and just barely. The blood isnt really that bad, it doesnt even look like blood and you dont get scars or anything like that. You can make many decisions that wld be a good learning point for many kids. I'm 16 and my brother is 14 and we both sit and play the game and so far have had no real big problems.

not at all bad for kids over 10. the violence is overexaggerated in the trailers and people aviod buying it because of the trialer. it is actually a very family freindlt game....