Dragon Age 2 Preview for the PC,Xbox 360 from 1UP.com
Yes, one of the big changes for Dragon Age 2 is that the combat has been revamped (or stripped back, depending on how you look at it) -- turning it into a much more hack-n-slash type of game when playing as a Knight. This is all done through a closer third-person perspective than the first game; think Ninja Gaiden, and how you hacked through dozens of enemies, blood spilling everywhere -- now replace ninjas with darkspawn, and you have the basic idea behind DA2. Currently, that's how it appears your main character, Hawke, a Knight (we're assuming that's the default class, like how Shepard defaults to being a Soldier) plays in the game.