Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for PC Reviews by Gamers

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?

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.