Sunday, February 19, 2012

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning


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Rating: 3.9

List Price : $59.99 Price : $57.50
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Product Description

The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving. Build the character you’ve always wanted and continuously evolve it to your style of play with the revolutionary Destiny system. Choose your path and battle through a master-crafted universe featuring some of the most intense, responsive, and customizable RPG combat ever.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a single player Action Role-playing Game (RPG) set in the brand-new game fantasy universe of Amalur. The game features an expansive Open World game environment, the unique "Destinies" system that limits character development only by the combination of equipped spells and items carried, intuitive yet challenging combat, a robust crafting system and a range of special attacks. Additional features include: the written and design talents of R.A. Salvatore, Todd McFarlane and Ken Rolston; dramatic special and metered attacks; as well as multiple in-game races.

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Amalur: a New RPG Realm with an Proven Pedigree

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning takes place in Amalur, an all-new game universe inhabited by various races of beings and filled with thousands of years of history. This deep fantasy based world is the brainchild of best-selling Fantasy and Science Fiction author R.A. Salvatore and the combined talents of Todd McFarlane, the creator of the Spawn series, Ken Rolston, the lead designer of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and the team at Big Huge Games. Reckoning bears the hallmarks of each of these visionaries, melding an epic, master-crafted storyline, rich graphics and heart-stopping animations, and compelling open-world exploration. In addition to being the setting for Reckoning, this rich world will also serve as a base for a future trans-media entertainment experience, including books, toys, comics, and a planned MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online RPG) video game yet be announced.

Combat against multiple enemies in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
An all-new Action RPG adventure and universe.
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Gameplay

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a single player Action RPG that blends a new approach to character development with intuitive, yet challenging real-time combat. Characters enter the game as something of a blank slate after they are resurrected from death by the mysterious "Well of Souls" following a grand in-game conflict. Spurning the rigid character class systems commonly used in RPGs for the development of characters, the game instead focuses on player-shaped "destines" which hinge on the chosen combinations of abilities and equipped items and weapons attached to their character as the game progresses. With no traditional classes these are blended as the play wishes. This along with a large item inventory limit and a robust crafting system for creating new items, allows for a nearly limitless number of possible character paths, or destines.

Active combat plays a major role in the game as players explore the Open World environment of the game on quests that bring them into contact with all manner of creatures. Regardless of character paths, all characters have access to primary and secondary weapons as well as magic. Unique attacks are tied to your choice of weapons, armor and strategies. The game also features powerful slow-motion attack opportunities called "Fateshift Kills" triggered by specific situations and/or equipped items. These devastating attacks are measured out as players time moves to a separate "Fate Energy" power meter. Additional features include unscripted real-time battles against large-scale enemies, melee and ranged weapons and enemy tagging abilities for ranged or delayed attacks.

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Merged magic and melee combat in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Seamless melee & magic.
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A female Dark Elf character from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Multiple races & race varieties.
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A beautiful interior environment from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
A beautiful Open World.
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Unleashing a special finishing move against an enemy in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Unique character customization.
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System Requirements
  Minimum Specifications: Recommended Specifications:
OS: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP2 /Windows 7 SP1
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHz or greater, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (or equivalent) running at 2.6GHz or greater Intel Core 2 Quad (or equivalent) running at 2.4GHz or greater, AMD Phenom X4 (or equivalent) running at 2.6GHz or greater
RAM: At least 1 GB for Windows XP, At least 2 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7 At least 3 GB for Windows XP, At least 4 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Drive: 10.5 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or better, ATI Radeon HD3650 512MB or better, Supporting Pixel Shader 3.0, Minimum Resolution Supported is 1280x720 NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 1GB RAM or better, ATI Radeon HD4850 1GB RAM or better, Supporting Pixel Shader 3.0
Controls: Mouse, Keyboard, and Xbox360 controller
Additional Info: DirectX 9.0 compatible; Requires Origin account for installation and activation


  • Uncover the secrets of Amalur in hundreds of hours of immersive gameplay, from the vibrant city of Rathir to the vast region of Dalentarth to the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns.
  • Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war and control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death. Turn your lack of a destiny to your advantage and harness fate as a weapon.
  • Explore deep levels of lore in a universe steeped in 10,000 years of fiction created by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore.
  • Customize your play in a dynamic combat system that delivers some of the most intense and responsive action ever seen in an RPG.
  • Seamlessly integrate magical and melee attacks as you take on scores of enemies in grand fight sequences and finish them off with brutal Fateshift kills.
  • Build the character you've always wanted with the revolutionary new Destiny system that allows you to continuously evolve your character class to your style of play.
  • Create and modify your hero with millions of combinations of skills, abilities, weapons and pieces of armor.
  • RPG Combat


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36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Mix of All That Is Good In Games, February 7, 2012
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Allison (Saline, MI, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
This review is from: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (DVD-ROM)
When Big Huge Games announced they were working on an RPG, I was both skeptical and hopeful. I knew them for their strategy titles, and while they created quality games I was dreading another slow-paced entry to the genre. Well, it looks like all my fears were for nothing. While they don't deliver anything extraordinarily ground breaking here, every element they have pulled into the game are ones I have found fun in other games. And one point I feel I have to make early on: This is nothing like Skyrim. Many people have asked me if it's like Skyrim/Oblivion, and I'm assuming this has to do with the designer being involved in the game. Really, the only thing familiar was the lockpicking, the rest of the game plays vastly differently from Skyrim and it's a good thing. So on to the key points I get asked about:

Combat--

This is where Reckoning shines. The combat is slick and fun, and it's the first game I've heard touting the 'Play any style you want!' where it... Read more
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21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother Buying the Disk (PC), February 11, 2012
= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 
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This review is from: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (DVD-ROM)
DISK:

Don't bother buying the disk for the PC: it's just installing EA's Origin game download system. Now, you have to go through slow download and installation of an Origin update. Then, you log into your account -- I had to do it online through EA.com because Origin did not accept my username and password -- and input the game code into your account. Finally, you have to wait for Origin to download and install the game.

This process took about an hour. With cable broadband.

There is NO GAME ON THE DISK, just the game code, so you may as well buy a direct download.

GAMEPLAY:

Thus far, the story line is interesting but I'm still getting used to the controls (coming from Dragon Age 1 & 2). There is nothing in the box to indicate keyboard shortcuts and what the mouse buttons do, you have to go through the game's tutorial. In the mean time, if you hit the wrong key, you can run out of healing and mana potions because potion keys... Read more
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth all the money., February 7, 2012
= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
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This review is from: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (DVD-ROM)
I was very excited when they announced the title and who works to make this world realize. A fan of Salvatore, this was a day 1 buy for me ... until I watched the development videos, the comments of developers were all focusing on the combat and were not even talking about what make this a RPG, I remember hearing things like "look at this move it looks awesome" from the mouths of the developers. I cannot tell you how irritating that was as if they are forcing me to like this game and treating us those who enjoyed the books of Salvatore as 15 years old action junkies.
Anyway, after playing the demo and watching diaries of the art department I was sold again, and I am happy to announce that I am content with my purchase!

The game looks nice, even my wife who has no idea about video game graphics admitted that the colors make you feel welcome. The gameplay is action based with the right amount of RPG elements in it combined with limitless combinations of classical RPG... Read more
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