Here a big fan of Bioware's series says: the WORST RPG from BIOWARE in the last ten years
1) Knights of the Old the Republic (Only the first one is Bioware, I played the second as well -totally broken- but that wasn't Bioware's fault)
2) Jade Empire
3) Mass Effect I and II
4) Dragon Age Origins and Awakening
5) Of course, Dragon Age 2
I want to be quick, so if you like or are a fan of Bioware series this is what you are going to find:
1) Downgraded fighting system in comparison with Dragon Age I
2) Absolutely trivial, unimportant equipment and stores stuff
3) Lazy maps: different dungeons use the same map always (something I hated from Mass Effect, a nasty bad habit now acquired)
4) Trivial unexciting story with very little traveling
5) Downgraded Spells and Skills, most taken from DAO, still, the new system seems like a cartoon of the original.
6) Trivial unexciting/not fun anymore companions (one of the coolest things in DAO, ths conversations between NPCs, is gone, they talk, and they are truly boring and pointless)
7) Weird companions like/dislike system (some of their judgements at least to me didn't make any sense), also little interaction with your NPC companions
8) And again, about the fighting system, no good RPG fighting system anymore, definitively, not even a serious attempt to become an action game.
I giving a 5 because of what left of Dragon Age franchise doesn't make it that bad. If you want to play another Dragon Age adventure, without expectation at all, could be fine BUT MAKE IT A RENTAL, DON'T BUY for more than 10 bucks.