360 Magazine: “We have five distinct geographic regions, 120+ dungeons, four big cities, dozens of towns and quest hubs… it’s a big world you’re going to be going through and a lot of time-consuming content.”
Do you remember the good old days, when video games put fast hack-and-slashing combat sequences and extensive levelling systems first and a deep narrative with memorable characters second? BigHuge Games certainly banked on gamers holding some kind of nostalgia for those titles of yore with their fantasy RPG Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning.
This is hilarious that i would see an article after I went and re-bought the game and playing it all week! I love the QTEs in this game its satisfying, the combat is fluid where you can switch from weapons to magic so easily, the weapons, armor, quests, character customizations, lore, world, voice acting, are all great this game has almost everything you'd need and want from an RPG!
I really wish there was going to be a KoAR 2!
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The journey comes to an end.
Would LOVE to see a sequel to this brilliant game. Wouldn't mind a remake for current gen systems either.
Last I heard this studio went out of business so I would think a remaster is pretty unlikely.
I think EA owns the rights to it now. I loved the game as well. A rare gem overlooked.
Went into a cave for a mission...Mission glitches and I can't start the mission or exit the cave...Auto save and manual saves are within the cave....I messed up so bad I quit. Really good game though.
such a great game, shame about the studio.
to produce something of that quality as their first title, just imagine what they could have done with more experience.
I'd just like to cheekily comment about this. I can't see how this is going to be anything like God Of War. Most RPG's with action elements don't offer the same sort deep combat as GoW. This looks fun, but I don't know if GoW is a good comparison.
It'll be nice to have a GoW style game on the 360 tho.
I knew it was coming from a Xbox site straight away. Xbox has some great exclusives like Halo, Gears of War. Why not talk about these great games instead of this "New God of War". God of War is a PlayStation franchise, so no this is not a new God of War. Let's wait until the game is released.
The writer must be pretty stupid if he thinks this has any relation at all to God of War
3 words: Rolston, McFarlane, Salvatore. All you need to know TO KNOW that Kingdoms deserves some hype and exposure on its own merits. I also like that it's being developed in conjunction with a MMO (which means an entire mythos is being created as a backdrop for the new IPs).
Am I the only gamer here, despite my excitement for Skyrim, isn't just a little nervous that the former LEAD designer for Bethesda's 2 best Elder Scrolls games ISN'T there? Rolston could've stayed on or retired but chose instead to come over to Big Huge/38 Studios. Doesn't that create a little intrigue?
Impressed Shilling got both T.M. and Salvatore onboard as well. Both are respected in their respective fields and will be greatly contribute to the project. I can see why EA quickly signed them to a publishing deal.
STOP IT! Just stop the madness right NOW!
Now I know editors will whore themselves out and do unspeakable things just for the sake of web-hits but this has got to STOP NOW!
Kingdoms is NOTHING like GOW! I myself am looking forward to buying Kingdoms but i wouldn't put it in the same game class as GOW.
God of War = hack n slash at it's finest
Kingdoms = Action RPG
God of War and it's Dev team are so good that nothing can touch it and kingdoms is a completely different genre of game.