Dragon Age Origins Collector's Edition

BioWare's dark fantasy debut deserved a collector's edition with weight behind it, and Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition on PC delivered with regional twists that make collecting it a proper quest in itself. Depending on where you bought it, you might have received a SteelBook case or a plastic case, a cloth map or no cloth map at all. The UK release shipped in plastic without the map, while the rest of Europe got the SteelBook and the cartographic goods.

The core package includes a bonus DVD and downloadable content codes, but the real prize is that cloth map. There's something deeply satisfying about unfolding a fabric map of Ferelden and tracing the routes your Warden took through Denerim, the Brecilian Forest, and Orzammar. It connects you to a tradition of RPG collector's editions that stretches back to the Ultima and Baldur's Gate days, when cloth maps were the gold standard of premium packaging.

In Australia, the tin version was exclusive to EB Games, while other retailers stocked a cardboard variant without the cloth map. This means collectors need to be precise about which version they're actually acquiring. The SteelBook tin variant with cloth map is the definitive version for display purposes, and it's the one that commands the most attention from fellow Dragon Age collectors. Origins remains the foundation of the entire franchise, the game that proved BioWare could build a new fantasy IP from scratch and make us care about it immediately. This Collector's Edition carries that legacy in a package worth preserving.