It is a great game if your a fan of the genre!
This game is also very story driven and its a good story too. Pretty much everything evolves around the story. Some rpgs will have you doing fetch quests and the like, but this games quests stem straight from the story engrossing you in it even more. The combat (and you will see plenty of it) is good and satisfying, especially certain animations when you kill an enemy by loping his head off. There is variety and plenty of strategy. Sometimes you will find it easier to just run in and swing and whatever's closest and there are also times with tough enemies when u may have to really set up a strategy. The presets you can give to each player really help with this and the fact that you can switch to your other party members makes things easier as well. sometimes you'll find that you want to be the one holding the shild trying to get the attention on you or swap to your mage to do the right spells in the right order (you wont always know what you need to preset) The branches of story and character developement with party members is also a nice benefit. your members will all have a different opinion of you and at times this can have significant consequences. The dialogue trees are well written and rarely offer you fewer than 4 options, sometimes vague enough to leave you unsure of the consequences.
all in all Dragon age is a very satisfying game with good mechanics in every department, but especially will you enjoy the story and progression of the game.