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Dragon Age II review scores are “lower than” BioWare was expecting, the game’s lead designer Mike Laidlaw has told Eurogamer.
Asked about the game’s 82 rating on Metacritic, Laidlaw said: “It’s a little bit lower than we were expecting. We knew going in that this may not sit around the same spot as Origins on all platforms.”
He added: “There’s been, I would say, more strongly negative reviews appearing on Metacritic than I expected. I’m a little surprised by the 6/10s and they have a fair amount of weight early on.”
However, Laidlaw says BioWare will look at the response to find out why the title missed its target of 90 per cent or more.
“If the Metacritic isn’t where we want it to be, and honestly our goal as a studio is to try and aim more for 90, then our next step will be to, very easily, go through those reviews, go through fan feedback, especially over some time – as opposed to the day-one initial response – and look at that in a measured way and say, what didn’t work, what did work, where did we go too far, where did we not go far enough, where was there just an inherent dissonance, and try to refine the experience and try to move forward for any future products.”
He concluded; “Honestly, it’s always a learning process. Dragon Age II comes out of some things we’d identified for Origins and anything we do in the future is going to come out of this response to Dragon Age II.”
You can find out why we thought the game wasn’t worth 9/10 by checking out our review.
