This is the ****!!!
According to a certain rumor this game has been in making for only 8 months. I believe it, because it definitely looks like it. Now, I don't mind all the promises about all the modernising of the genre and the curtailment of all the RPG inutilities that don't make RPGs RPGs in first place, because it can occasionally work out. But it didn't work out here. They threw a dialogue wheel and a talking main hero in it (I preferred the first game's mute psychopath who used mostly his loyal dagger to communicate with others) . That's all. The biggest flaw to my eyes is the beautifully highlighted issue of all RPG games out there - the complete nonsensicality of quests. In this game, they jump into your journal almost by themselves and they disappear very fast as well. You have no chance of catching the reasons why are you going back to the same place for the tenth time, when all you know is the fact you've killed every single bubo in there already. The game was also supposed to have a strong story taking several years and tons of space to make decisions and face the consequences. Well, it's not quite like that. It all actually seems more like a set of three unrelated DLCs. What about NPCs? Bioware can make them so nicely cliché'd they're just fun to interact with, don't they? Well, they're rather weak. The dwarf and the whore are the only two worth mentioning. As for the final kick in the face, it's the transfer of the save from the first game. That didn't work out very well either. For example, I had just about no idea what kind of business had one certain elf to do in the game, when I took such a good care to kill him in the first one.
I'm not naive enough to put all the blame on EA, but this **** descent that could've taken at least two to three more games was certainly speeded up by their dirty hands. I tried to slur this little comment on the game just as much as Bioware slurred the game itself, but I think I just can't compete with them...