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Dragon Age 2 is one of gaming's best explorations of family life
A look at Dragon Age 2, a rare RPG that keeps it all in the family.
| Image credit: BioWare/EA Varric's story begins as your character, Hawke, along with your mother Leandra and your two siblings, Carver and Bethany, flee your home during a battle with monsters named Darkspawn. If you leave him behind, as I did, he decides to join The Templars, an order that actively hunts your kind (you're regarded as one of the 'apostate' mages), although Carver says he won't turn you in, and in my game he stuck to his word. Maybe these issues come down to the punishingly short time frame the game was created within, which, as is noted in Jason Schreier's book, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, was under two years.
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