Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for PC Reviews by Gamers

Nowhere in the store page does it state that Origin is required to play this game. The Steam version doesn't require it. I refuse to install EA's spyware on my computer. As a result, I've wated the price of this game. If you don't want Origin, avoid buying this game from GameFly.

This games forground and background artwork detail is remakable and in my opinion unsurpassed by any other game I've played in years.

It's getting really good reviews. It's not a bad game just kinda the same as other games I guess... the game doesn't have alot going on besides just go to this quest then go do that quest.

If you enjoy games where you are rewarded for your inquisitiveness, and you aren't trying to beat the game in as short a time as possible, well this is the game for you! I have heard Reckoning as being compared to a juiced down version of Skyrim. TBH I couldn't get into Skyrim no matter how hard I tried. It just didn't do it for me. Now, Kingdoms of Amalur had me hooked in about an hour. The graphics are bright...the weapons look cool...and the battles are exciting! True, the game isn't going to introduce you to a new type of monster throughout the game, nor will you find any sort of different herbs or chests to utilize/open as the game progresses...But, you will increase your powers and akill sets with noticible improvement. The weapon types are minimal but the variety within those types varies enough to make rare weapon discoveries exciting from start to finish. I could go on and on...but I won't. If you enjoy games that reward exploration with cool gear and you arent trying to get a medal for the qickest RPG game finish of the year, get this game and prepare yourself for about a week or two of fun.

Story: 5 ---You have to kill the big bad guy because um... it's not your destiny? I'm sure that made sense before they turned into the main plot of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. --- Visuals: 6 --- Yeah, it's a world space, a very well-made world space but not really anything to write home (or a review) about. --- Sound: 6 --- There's music and the VO doesn't suck. What else do you want? --- Combat: 10 --- Let's face it slaughtering a myriad of meatbags with an incomprable armada of spells and special abilities is just plain fun. The levels are well-designed and the abilities are even better. The only bad part about the combat is how weak most of the enemies are. But it's not such a big deal when you're slaughtering dozens of them every 30 seconds and the developers do a lot to provide a good pace. ---- Game Design: 7 --- Kingdoms of Amalur doesn't do a whole lot but what it does do is a lot of fun combat and a lot of cool special abilities. So is it poorly designed? No, it's good. Not perfect, not great but indeed good. --- Fun Factor: 10 --- I said that already didn't I? This game is long and fun to play. In every other way it is mediocre but hey, when you rock at doing one thing you may as well rock it as well as Kingdoms of Amalur does. --- Overall: 8 --- Very fun, very long, not much else but who needs flash when you;'ve got fun? It's a game right?

I see too many people comparing this to Skyrim, which is just silly. It's almost nothing like that. Others compare it to Fable. This is closer, but still it's far different. It is closest to Fable 1 and in many ways, Kingdoms of Amalur is what Fable should have been, at least to me.

This game takes small ideas from many other games and genres, but is very much a new world and new idea separate from anything before. Just as it would be wrong to say, "Halo is like Call of Duty in space" I think it's wrong to call this "Fable with World of Warcraft graphics and Elder Scrolls type story/background".

Anyways, I liked this game a lot. I played through it as Warrior with Broadsword not a single skill outside of warrior. I loved it this way, especially late in the game when some very cool armors and weapons were available.

The fighting system was great, fast, and fun. Some may have a bit of trouble at first, especially if you are loyal to one weapon class like me, only using broadswords, but once you figure out when and how to block and counter well, it is extremely fun.

I've heard others call the story shallow, full of characters who don't have depth or emotions. Well, I can't comment much on that. This game has a huge amount of story put into the game. Much of this is backstory and information about the world's races and government and nature, for the die hard fantasy fans to read.

But even the dialogue you have to get quests and proceed with the story is lengthy, and very early in the game, I decided to skip all of it. YES, ALL OF IT.

This is because the fighting is so fast and furious, yet reading and listening to people talk is so slow, and a bit tiring. The contrast was too great for me. It was hard to keep my energy for battle after speaking to someone for my next quest. Too bad, because it all seemed quite interesting to me at a glance.

Once I began skipping all speech, I was able to keep a fast fun pace, and the game was still very long and fu

LOVE IT? Of course this game is excellent very fun lots of quest, Latlly Games have really been bothering me there just not fun anymore, But this game has potential no doubt in my mind, honestly Graphics are good ive seen better there cartoony, but hey if you can get past that your in for a winner. Story line is really quiet interesting i think its actully a pretty darn good story line depending in what kind of games you like, hmm another thing people comparing this game to Skyrim Elder Scroll, Wow really you really havnt played this game much honestly quiet diffrent i would compare it too more like Fable, God Of War And honestly a little bit of World Of Warcraft. people you can take my word and buy it or just buy it and try it out.

I've seen critics and users compare this game to Skyrim but that's just not acurate. No if I had to compare it to something it'd be more like Fable and almost nothing like Skyirm.

Story: The game has a pretty interesting storyline. Everyone has a set fate that they cannot change but you don't. Change is coming to the Faelands and it is by your hand. You aren't bound by fate and your involvment affects everyone elses fate as well for the better or worse. Although nothing too memorable is achieved.

Graphics/Audio: Everything looks... cartoony. The world is heavily saturated and you can't change that. While enviroments are entertaining they look overly bright and fruity. Soundtrack fits the games style well though.

Gameplay: This game undoubtably has some of the best gameplay I've enjoyed. Combat is fast paced, fluid and flat out fun. I prefer using Motion Joy to hook up my PS3 controller and hacking and slashing at my enemies. Magic is pretty combat friendly and one of my favorite things about this game was classes. There's the classic Rouge, Warrior, Mage set up but with an exiting twist. You can spend you level up points however you want into any of these three classes and choose one of many Fate Cards. Fate Cards outline your character's combat style and the game encourages you to mix and match. You can be a Battle Mage, a Blademaster or a Jack of all Trades, or you can be a strict warrior or rouge only. The user interface is better with a controller over keyboard but not too bad.

Heart: What is Heart you ask? Heart is what draws us to games like Catherine, Persona, Dragon Age and Mass Effect. Dragon Age proves you can have an unoriginal story but if the journey there is outlined with amazing characters and daring romance it's still the best thing ever. This is where the game lacks badly. Characters aren't interesting and their about as deep as a puddle of wizz. I cannot give a game like that a good rating.

Good game but lack of depth kills it.

Not a bad game all and all but after playing Skyrim this seems more like a game for those who were too confused by Skyrim. Graphically they went with more of a WoW style (very cartoon like) Gameplay they tried to go more towards God of War, which in itself is great but at the end of the day if I'm going to be playing a game that's like WoW or GOW I think I'd rather be playing WoW or GOW and not just something that's kinda like them.

I haven't had this much fun since Dragon Age: Origins and The Witcher 1 & 2. I'm a bit of a completionist and I do get sucked into the lore. So far, I've spent over 200 hours in the game and still have not finished my first playthrough. It is an open world and each region looks distinctly different. There's crafting and factions, but no romance options. There are choices in various conversations. Although, I have no idea whether or not those choices affect the ending since I haven't finished the game yet. The level of detail is such that books look like tomes, letters look like parchments and gear has flavor text. For me, this game is just awesome!

This game was really really fun, put in around 20 hours of side quests then decided to do the story line, first couple of quests went fine until i got the the hunters hunted quest. All i got from this as the same dialog and couldn't start the actual quest, after restarting and losing everything i had, i finally was able to start the quest just to get stuck trying to break a crystal that wouldn't break. at this point i had to put it down and remove it from my system before i lost it and destroyed something.

As a rpger, i would say this game is pretty fun, i am rating this an 8 and ahalf because no way does it come close to Skyrim. This is closer to Fable with a touch of pazzaz but in all it is pretty good, graphics are nice.

i can't wait, engine and software done by elder scrolls, story by RA Salvatore, and art by Todd Mcfarlane..... what more could i ask... nothing.... he drew spawn comics and the animated series.... very dark i loved it...