The Veilguard Is Coming This Spooky Season

What might be scarier than the potential destruction of existence as you recognize it as a result of Bald Ianto From Torchwood desires to tear aside the material of actuality between the world and the realm of spirits? Not a lot, BioWare has determined, which is why, in the end, the next Dragon Age game is dropping proper on Halloween.

At present BioWare and EA launched a brand new trailer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard—previously generally known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf throughout its lengthy, winding growth historical past—confirming its October 31 launch date, in addition to giving us a little bit of a extra cinematic have a look at the sport after its formal unveiling earlier this summer.

The brand new trailer dives a bit extra into what’s at stake within the sport, which sees Varric Tethras, the Dwarven rogue and storyteller first launched in (the perpetually criminally underrated) Dragon Age II after which additional explored in its observe up, 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, recruit a brand new hero and group of allies to assist take down a former buddy. That “buddy” in fact is Solas (performed by the aforementioned Ianto from Torchwood, aka Gareth David-Lloyd), the elf mage gamers welcomed into their ranks throughout Inquisition, just for him to in the end reveal that he’s really the traditional god, Fen’Harel—now in search of to revive the elves’ outdated kingdom, at the price of destroying the world because it exists. Besides, issues go a bit sideways because of your intervention, and now all of the trapped elven gods are operating amok. Woops!

We get to see a bit extra of that new hero, Dragon Age‘s newest customizable protagonist, generally known as “Rook,” in addition to a number of the new companions Varric has recruited to his trigger. There’s some acquainted faces, like Varric himself and Inquisition‘s Scout Harding–and even a shock return by Claudia Black’s mysterious mage, Morrigan. However except for them they’re largely fully new characters this time round. It is smart, contemplating it’s been a decade since Inquisition got here out, and The Veilguard is already coping with sufficient context across the previous video games that it doesn’t actually must be tying itself even further into plot factors from over a decade or extra in the past. Or no less than, not but—save that for within the nitty-gritty of the sport itself, reasonably than the flashy new trailers designed to remind the world that sure, certainly, there actually is a brand new Dragon Age sport popping out once more.

It’s acquired a launch date and every part! Dragon Age: The Veilguard hits PC, in addition to Xbox Sequence X and S, and Ps 5, October 31.

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