Most modern games take between 8 and 15 hours to complete in full. Of course this is dependent on the genre, and does not take into account things like replay-ability and multiplayer. At a stretch most longer games will offer around 50 hours of gameplay, and of course multiplayer titles such as World of Warcraft and most first-person-shooters will offer endless online playability.
However, it is not often that a single player campaign offers more than 50 hours of potential unique gameplay.
According to BioWare studio chief Ray Muzyka, Dragon Age: Origins will offer gamers over 120 hours of gameplay time. Muzyka stated at GamesCom last week that he spent 120 hours on one play-through that encompassed about 90 percent of the game.
“I couldn’t wait to come home” added Muzyka, going on to elaborate “After about ten hours of gameplay, every day I was talking about coming home and I played it for two or three hours, or whatever time I had free, and play it to the early hours.”
“Luckily I don’t sleep as much as my wife. I’d stay up till after midnight and play it after she was asleep.”
Dragon Age has been billed as the spiritual successor to Balder’s Gate, and the developer is responsible for a number of other highly rated RPGs such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights and most recently Mass Effect.
The game is planned for release in early November 2009 on PC and Xbox 360, and on PS3 later in the month.
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