Truly, it's a wonderful game.
The story was incredibly awesome, and the graphics were insanely beautiful. The makers lovingly made the game, putting in a lot of work and devotion. If you have any money to spare, my advice would be throwing it into this.
Bioware and Dragon Age, as hard as they might try, can't really compare. It'd take a miracle to get them out of being mediocre in comparison to TW2.
From my experience the only people who disliked TW2 were Bioware fanboys who were jealous of the fact that it's awesome, or just people who disliked it out of personal taste. Naturally I'm more lenient towards the latter, because that's at least a reason I can understand. I've yet to see one person who had provided actual critique for the game that is not a matter of preference. Well, aside from a couple of critics, and they generally enjoyed the game nevertheless.
Or conserving this whole statement into one sentence, my avatar says everything.
Gah crap, times like this I'm angry that my grandfather had to move out of Poland. Well, being born just over the border is close enough.
Sorry if I sound like a fanboy, because I probably am, to the extent that I've read all the books about 500 times, and played the first game about 20 times making various decisions throughout XD
P.S.: Obama apparently got TW2 on his trip to Poland as a diplomatic present.