Dragon Age 2: Re-Imagined mod

EA has a new sale on celebrating the varied worlds of its catalogue with a sale on some classic franchises like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, running until September 15th. Some amazing RPGs are available, so consider adding one to your catalogue, and if you do, here's five mods for the games on sale to bolster your value!

Sometimes the best mods are simple ones - changing tone and atmosphere in a subtle way throughout a game for just that little bit of extra visual comfort. ReShade is a powerful tool and the go-to for many baseline graphics modders - if a game exists, you can be reasonably sure a ReShade preset exists for it. DA3 is no exception - this preset adds a colder tinge to the game, dying down some of the colours and giving a more ominous edge to an already foreboding story.

Appearance Modification Menu for Mass Effect 3 Legendary Edition. Don't you hate not being able to change your appearance after you get past the character creation screen? Not even makeup or hair styles? Don't you hate needing to edit your save file to use custom hair mods? Well no longer. You can now manage your appearance in game, with a live preview, from inside the armor locker interface.

Note: This one's not on sale for some strange reason (the only game that isn't, barring DLC) - but if you're picking up Inquisition and 2, you might feel like picking up Origins anyway to complete the trilogy.

Crown of Creation is a standalone adventure for DAO, set in a very different gameworld (similar to my Enigma Island series for Neverwinter Nights). The emphasis is on roleplay (2-5 hours), with some mature content and occasional combat. There are quite a few puzzle situations, where the player has to figure out what to do without many clues. Without a voiced protagonist, Dragon Age: Origins generally puts more emphasis on player roleplay, and so an adventure playing into this aspect fits handily into the game.

Starting out as a compilation mod, this mod turned into something more - All in all there's around 50 fighting styles (including weapon upgrades) added to the game. Quite a lot of styles have been modified. Some have been re-balanced. To others, new effects have been added. And some have been re-purposed entirely. But it didn't stop there - There are new gem armors, new techniques, new merchants, brand new concepts like specializations...In other words, this mod is a complete overhaul.

Dragon Age II is a little divisive as sequels go, with some feeling it departs a fair bit from Origins in its direction. Still a solid RPG, there's some merit to concerns about the change in direction in Dragon Age from 2 onwards, and so it has received many tweaks over the years from modders, and this pack hopes to answer a particular concern in regards to graphical style. Overhauling much of the game's textures and revising the fidelity overall, it's an unobtrusive mod that gives just a little more pizazz to the game.

There's our picks for five games from EA's Steam "New Worlds" sale, which runs until September 15th. How do our picks line-up and are there any other games in the sale you've got your eye on?