played up to the near the end (imported char) and thought it was OK, worthwhile but not as good.
Then decided to go back and play right through from DA:O with a fresh character... about 1/3 way through DA:A i realised it was just ridiculously easy and got bored, theres maybe a few challenging moments every few hours - not fun.
Theres mods out that try and balance things and salvage a decent game out of it, but i dont have the enthusiasm to go through it all again. So my recommendation if you want to play this is to anticipate that itll be way too easy, and (if you usually play on hard settings) install the latest user-mods to fix it up.