Opinion: Welcome to Amalur
From cellophane to opening cutscene, it's as if Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning doesn't seem to care about you playing it.
7From cellophane to opening cutscene, it's as if Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning doesn't seem to care about you playing it.
7An attempt to streamline the RPG leaves too little meat on its user-friendly bones.
Upcoming fantasy RPG Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning uses publisher EA's Online Pass to lock out singleplayer content from second-hand buyers. Destructoid spotted that the EA-published title contains a single-use code to wall off an entire faction quest line, with those that buy pre-owned forced to pay a further fee to access the content. More >
1Big Huge Games, developer of Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, has admitted that the biggest threat to its fantasy RPG's chance of success is that people are still playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Like Skyrim, Reckoning is a high-fantasy RPG set in a huge open world. Speaking to Eurogamer, lead designer Ian Frazier described Bethesda's offering as "our big competitor" - which is putting it mildly given that Skyrim sales passed the ten million mark last month. More >
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