Dragon Age: Inquisition released on Tuesday to mostly good reviews, scoring an 87 percent on review compilation website Metacritic.

But what's the game like for players? After about ten hours of total playtime, we'll tell you: the game is mostly great.

As with most BioWare games, Dragon Age: Inquisition begins with a quick intro and then throws you into the character creation tool. This time around, the creation tool is so well-developed that you can spend hours designing what your character looks like. You choose from four races: elf, human, dwarf or Qunari. Then you decide if your character is a warrior, rogue or mage.

Then it's time to customize your character's appearance. And this is where BioWare's character creation tool really shines: you can control everything about your character's face: hair style and color, eye color and width apart, size of nostrils, height of ears, color of skin, tattoo designs and more. You'll likely spend at least an hour working on this screen, detailing every part of your character's look. You'll also choose one of two voice options.

Once you have your character, you're ready to start the game. And as with previous Dragon Age games, the story is an epic. Dragon Age: Inquisition fills you in on recent events up to the current time frame of the game, when rifts between the mortal realm and the void are opening up all over the world, sending demons out among the people.

As the main character, it's your job to close these rifts, kill the demons and find out exactly what's going on.

That's the main storyline. However, with over 200 hours of gameplay, Dragon Age: Inquisition is about twice the size of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. That's massive! And at first, it all seems a little overwhelming, but everything connects so well that the side quests actually feel a part of the main mission, something other games generally struggle with.

Graphically speaking, Dragon Age: Inquisition looks beautiful on the PlayStation 4, probably because BioWare created it with next-generation consoles in mind. Every scene is lovingly detailed and characters are more beautifully animated than ever before.

However, there are some minor problems. For example, occasionally a character disappears and becomes ghost-like, a raw white outline running around without a corporeal body. This is a weird bug that pops up from time to time, generally during and right after combat. However, it's nothing like the Assassins Creed: Unity bugs, so a patch will probably fix that soon.

There are also some weird issues with sound. At times, the dialogue gets lost under music and sound effects, but a few tweaks to the sound settings can adjust it until a patch releases to deal with the issue (unless, of course, the effect is intentional, like Christopher Nolan's Interstellar). There are also times when the sound cuts off completely, but hitting the "Options" button on the DualShock controller twice seems to fix the problem.

Where Dragon Age: Inquisition really shines, though, is with the story. BioWare make legendary roleplaying games, so it's no surprise that this one is so good. However, it's better than good: it's excellent. There are moments when the game sucks you in so completely that you cannot help but feel what your character feels at any given moment.

For example, playing an elf means that you spend a lot of time with humans looking down their noses at you. And although you're supposedly the world's saviour and the herald of Andraste (part of a religion you don't even believe in), those humans are often downright hostile in their racist attitudes towards you. Play an elf who is also a mage, and people fear you enough that they imagine burning you at the stake. The dialogue with other characters is enough to make you feel that isolation of being a lone elf mage amongst humans.

Of course, there are also dialogue options that determine what kind of character you want to play. Be snarky or kind, sarcastic or straight-forward. Each choice plays into how other characters perceive you, as well as how the story plays out.

Finally, the stories you played in the previous two games work well through Dragon Age Keep and integrate into what other characters tell you, as well as current events. There was some previous concern among players about how the previous games' stories would integrate into the new consoles, but Dragon Age Keep handles the event beautifully, although it does take an investment in time (and memory) to plug in all the details.

First impressions are everything, and so far, Dragon Age: Inquisition is the game to beat this holiday season.

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