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Dragon Age II gameplay video arrives from Russia (with love?)

By Matt Bradford published 9 November 2010

Gameplay footage from Moscow's Igromir 2010

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What are you doing right now? Not watching nearly six minutes of Dragon Age II gameplay footage from Igromir 2010, Moscow's premier gaming expo? Let's fix that...

A noisy crowd and shoddy lighting make it difficult to pass judgement on the sequel's graphical tweaks. Nevertheless, this footage of Hawke and Bethany cracking some darkspawn skull does do a decent job of highlighting developer BioWare's efforts to make Dragon Age II a tighter, slicker gameplay experience.

It's not the best representation of BioWare's latest, but it's a start. And considering that Dragon Age II is still some ways off from its official marketing blitz, we're sure there'll be plenty more to watch in the months ahead.

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Matt Bradford wrote news and features here at GamesRadar+ until 2016. Since then he's gone on to work with the Guinness World Records, acting as writer and researcher for the annual Gamer's Edition series of books, and has worked as an editor, technical writer, and voice actor. Matt is now a freelance journalist and editor, generating copy across a multitude of industries.

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