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When so many big game series now offer a new game every year, the four year wait for Dragon Age: Inquisition seems particularly cruel. The latest from RPG specialist Bioware, the sequel transfers the action to a truly epic openworld environment and tasks the player with recruiting the Inquisition of the title, in order to fight back against a dark magical apocalypse.

“A gorgeous game on an epic scale,” says Joystiq's five star review. “It makes you feel that you aren't just exploring a new world, but helping shape it at various levels of society. Inquisition sets the bar for what a blockbuster RPG should be.”

High praise, and it's matched by Polygon which delivers a 9.5/10 score. “Dragon Age: Inquisition puts the fate of the world in your hands in a way that few role-playing games have done before,” it explains. “And even after another 80 hours devoted to it, it's a world I cannot wait to return to in whatever BioWare does next. I don't know what higher praise I could give.”

The sheer volume of content is what has IGN excited. “It’s a surprisingly huge, dense world, and I soon realised there were still entire sandboxes I hadn’t even set foot in,” says the 8.8/10 review. “Even in my hundredth hour, I’m still discovering.”

And Game Informer is also smitten with the new direction the series has taken. “With a mixture of open-world exploration, entertaining combat, and top-tier characters, the team at BioWare has found a winning formula that isn’t shackled to either Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age II,” concludes its 9.5/10 review. “Inquisition is not defined by the traditions it returns to, but by the new directions it forges for this magnificent fantasy universe.”

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