Hi Maggie...
I think DA: Origins can be played both as point and click and with the keyboard.
On youtube you can see this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPFwfvCpD4It is in German, but has English subtitles; it shows the combat and some of the control schemes. It shows point and click combat (from around 1.05-.1.40). You can set tactital conditions, say automatic healing when 25% of max. hitpoints are reached (seen in the video from around 2.32-2.52) The rest of the video is very nice to view, too.
The German tutorial videos are very informative, and very nice to view.
More on Dragon Age's control scheme:
I just found this:
http://s697.photobucket.com/albums/vv333...lSchematics.jpgfrom this thread on the Bioware forums:
http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=693179&forum=135As you can see here, you can also play it with the keyboard:
http://s697.photobucket.com/albums/vv333...lSchematics.jpgBut it can be played (controlled with the mouse) as well.
Here's a snippet from a recent previw for Dragon Age at mmorpg.com
"On the PC though, I fell in love. Scroll back with the mouse wheel and you not only zoom out a bit, but you eventually snap into a three quarters isometric view that anyone who has played the Diablos, Baldur's Gates or Icewind Dales will instantly recognize.
From this perspective, you can (if you want) toss out the WASD controls and move to party based point and click. Just like the old games, you can draw a box and control all four party members at once. Pausing becomes even more important and useful at this angle, of course, and generally, the people at Bioware said they found that people who want more control and strategy adopt this mode, some others run through exclusive in 3rd person, while a third group switches between the two for specific encounters."
( source:
http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?loadfeature=3481&bhcp=1 )
As you can see, zooming out (on the pc) will make the game snap in the beloved 3/4 isometric view so familiar to us Baldur's Gate fans, and best of all, you can use point and click.
Note though, that in DA: Origins the right mouse button is used to move characters around while the left mouse button is used to control the camera.