Dragon Age: Inquisition is niet 'open-world'

Dragon Age: Inquisition is geen 'open world game'. Mike Laidlaw van BioWare noemt de game liever 'multi-region'. Zo zal de game een wereldkaart hebben waarmee je kunt reizen tussen de verschillende gebieden in de game.

Dit betekent niet dat de game uit allerlei kleine levels bestaat. Mike Laidlaw legt uit waarom men bij BioWare de game niet als 'open world' bestempelt. “'Open world' I think is a really loaded term, because everyone immediately thinks of Skyrim and assumes everything will be exactly like Skyrim. In our case, there are extremely large regions you can explore."

“It’s a multi-region game, which means that you’ll travelling with a world map. You’re travelling across this chunk of the continent in which the game is set. And each of the regions is purposeful. It has a reason you would be brought here. It ties back to the story, or at least to the overall themes of the game. “These are my enemies and they’re very active here. I should find out why.”

“That kind of stuff. That means that they aren’t necessarily laden with story, because story is the antithesis of discovery, right? It tends to lead you along. But when you’re discovering things, you should feel like they’re part of the overall game and not random. I would say that it has elements of open world for sure, but it’s something closer to the feel we had in the Baldur’s Gate games or in Origins, even, where it’s larger areas, big spaces, and the chance for you to move around and see a wide variety of different terrains and locales and so on."

Dragon Age: Inquisition komt naar verwachting eind 2014 uit voor pc, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 en Xbox One.