It's A Wonderful Life: Darkspawn Edition

Mister Buch's prediction was correct! It appears that these Darkspawn Chronicles that Kotaku had hinted at yesterday turned out to be a DLC episode that puts you in control of a darkspawn character of sorts. Not only that, but it works under the premise that you died hardcore during the Grey Warden Joining ceremony in Ostagar.

The story revolves around you, a darkspawn commander of sorts, as you're tasked with destroying the Ferelden capital of Denerim. Along the way, you'll meet up with many of your old friends from DA:O...and punch the shit out of them, apparently. I guess booting up this add-on will probably seem most appropriate whenever one of your party members disapproves with you a little too much, eh?

I'm really not sure what to think of this. I still hate that BioWare insists on making these add-ons that don't really do too much for the story, and only provide a means through which to kill an hour or so. We haven't really gotten an add-on (or expansion, for that matter) that has been able to live up to the majesty of the main game. It's all just been...okay. Now here they are already working on alternative universe yarn. Ugh.

It's really hard for me to put on my Optimist Hat concerning this, but we'll see. I'll give it a fair shake until the reviews start coming in. I'm just silently hoping that BioWare handles DLC a little better come Dragon Age II. In my eyes, they're still getting the hang of it, and they're about at the stage that Bethesda was during Oblivion's reign.

You can read an interview with the lead designer of the add-on over HERE, which pretty much explains what you should expect.

Edit: BioWare has also posted up a trailer for the add-on over at Youtube. LINKY.