Everything you need to know about Dragon Age 4: Release date, trailer and more

(Pocket-lint) - The Dragon Age bid is 1 of the astir monumental successful each of gaming, with tremendous storylines playing retired with dozens of characters, factions and demons to consider, but we haven't had a caller crippled since Inquisition came retired backmost successful 2014, rather a hiatus.

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However, EA and BioWare person yet confirmed what was agelong suspected - the adjacent Dragon Age is successful the works, and we've adjacent got a trailer to spell with the news. We've gathered each the cardinal snippets of accusation you request to cognize astir the upcoming game, close here.

Dragon Age 4 merchandise date

The supra trailer for the adjacent Dragon Age, which inactive doesn't person an existent title, debuted astatine the Game Awards successful precocious 2020 and kicked disconnected a tempest of hype, arsenic you'd expect. Of course, it's precise overmuch each CGI, without immoderate gameplay astatine all, truthful this is decidedly an aboriginal look astatine the game's themes and not overmuch more. 

As such, we aren't adjacent adjacent to expecting the crippled successful 2021 - 2022 is adjacent a spot optimistic target, to our minds, though EA and BioWare mightiness good person the resources to rotation it up much rapidly than we're expecting.

EA has antecedently indicated that the crippled won't marque it retired earlier the extremity of 2022's fiscal year, though, and a caller VentureBeat report indicated that 2023 is the astir apt merchandise twelvemonth for the project.

Dragon Age 4 platforms

When it comes to which platforms Dragon Age 4 is apt to look on, we tin beryllium a small spot much confident. Given the timescale, and the information that the crippled is inactive successful reasonably aboriginal development, it's precise apt to beryllium aimed astatine next-gen consoles only, coming retired connected the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S and skipping their forbears. 

That's go each the much apt aft eagle-eyed leaker Jeff Grubb confirmed it with sources, aft a erstwhile BioWare employee's LinkedIn profile started things disconnected by indicating the next-gen platforms arsenic targets for the game.

Of course, Dragon Age is besides an implicit favourite for PC gamers, who tin get a small much in-depth with their strategical play acknowledgment to a rodent and keyboard, truthful it'll beryllium dormant definite to travel to the PC arsenic well. 

Sadly, nary of the Dragon Age games person truthful acold travel to a Nintendo console, and with the Switch's constricted powerfulness we deliberation that'll proceed to beryllium the lawsuit this time. 

Dragon Age 4 story

The teaser trailer BioWare debuted past twelvemonth is beauteous ambiguous, but determination are immoderate large points we tin inactive gully from it. It sounds from the voiceover similar we'll beryllium taking connected a caller character, not returning to capable the shoes of the illustrious Inquisitor we played past clip around. 

Indeed, this quality seemingly won't beryllium a prophesied chosen one, but idiosyncratic mean who'll scope bonzer heights. 

Furthermore, determination are a mates of characters we tin accidental with assurance volition look - namely, rugged dwarf Varric Tethras, who narrates the trailer aft his starring relation successful some Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition. Will helium beryllium up for his 3rd consecutive quality arsenic a enactment member?

Then there's the apt large atrocious for the crippled - Solas, the Dread Wolf whose beingness seemed truthful adjuvant passim Inquisition earlier that game's last twist revealed him to beryllium very, precise evil. It's a harmless stake that immoderate other happens, you'll beryllium moving into Solas successful Dragon Age 4 for sure. 

We tin besides marque immoderate steadfast guesses astir the game's setting, which is highly apt to beryllium Tevinter, the past quality federation governed by mages. Inquisition's last DLC ended with a beardown hint that Tevinter was the adjacent large determination to beryllium explored, portion aggregate leaks person besides pointed toward the setting. 

That's present been made adjacent much apt by a find from the Eurogamer team, speechmaking a publication connected the past of BioWare. 

Finally picked up the BioWare publication and hey is this the archetypal *official* confirmation Dragon Age 4 is acceptable successful Tevinter? (I cognize we each benignant of guessed this already) pic.twitter.com/229xriPbof

— Tom Phillips (@tomphillipsEG) January 24, 2021

That's the archetypal sanctioned confirmation that it'll beryllium successful Tevinter, adjacent if it hasn't been announced successful a much ceremonial sense. Now we've got different spot of artwork to further marque it likely, posted arsenic a thank-you to the diligent fanbase: 

— Christian Dailey (@ChristianDailey) March 20, 2021

That looks a batch similar the aforesaid magic-infused metropolis that features successful the trailer, on with a due look astatine a distinctly mage-looking character. This is each intelligibly evocative of Tevinter, and determination are immoderate truly intriguing plan choices going on. 

In fact, the conception creation bid keeps rolling - the aforesaid enforcement shaper connected the crippled precocious sent retired different image, this clip showing disconnected a Grey Warden:

— Christian Dailey (@ChristianDailey) April 30, 2021

We don't person immoderate much to connected successful presumption of however important Grey Wardens volition beryllium to the game's story, but it's different small spot of flavour to bask arsenic we await immoderate further news. 

Dragon Age 4 gameplay

Finally, we travel to gameplay, and there's really rather a batch of options connected the array for Dragon Age 4. Each Dragon Age crippled has felt beauteous chiseled - Origins had much tactical combat, Dragon Age 2 was much action-packed, and Inquisition was determination successful the mediate depending connected however you played it. 

Whether combat is much progressive oregon simpler, though, immoderate different things are apt to beryllium guaranteed. We should get a reasonably lengthy communicative with dozens of characters to speech to and influence, and dialog trees that springiness plentifulness of prime successful presumption of approach. 

Dragon Age has truthful acold besides shied distant from a existent unfastened satellite experience, preferring ample hub areas that you tin question betwixt for a much elaborate attack to each location, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to spot if that operation reappears. One of the lone existent criticisms of Inquisition was that its areas could consciousness a small over-large astatine times, truthful we'll spot if the adjacent crippled makes these a spot denser, too. 

However, 1 happening we tin seemingly regularisation retired is the crippled having multiplayer - this was seemingly a large portion of EA's program for the franchise. However, the mediocre instrumentality from games similar Anthem, paired with large occurrence from singleplayer rubric Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has persuaded EA to instrumentality with Dragon Age's roots. 

According to a big Bloomberg report, this is precise overmuch what BioWare wanted, truthful hopefully that means we spot a truer mentation of what they're imagining the crippled volition beryllium erstwhile it yet releases. 

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 18 January 2021.