Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom Review - IGN

THELANDOFSANDS - 1108 days 9 hours ago

"So where does Dark Kingdom go wrong? Well, apart from the repetitive combat system, there's a ton of gameplay issues that you'd hope would've been fixed with the transition over to the PS3. Load times are surprisingly long when you're accessing new levels. The three playable characters can get hitched up on just about any environmental object or level design piece. Rocks and boxes, as well as hills or background objects can cause your character to freeze in mid-jumping animation for at least five or six seconds. Many of the environments aren't interactive. For example, you'll notice leaves melt through the ground instead of landing on it, and you can't wade through tall grass and have it respond to your motion. About the only thing that does respond in this manner is water, which has a similar textural viscosity as that found in Norrath on the PS2.

The draw distance for the environments is relatively shallow, so you'll notice a ton of pop-in, particularly with enemies. It's possible to run into what appears to be a clear area only to have threats materialize from nowhere. This is different than monsters being summoned into the playing area; this is literally stumbling onto opponents that weren't there a second before. You'll also run into a lot of camera problems during combat, where the camera will unexpectedly zoom in or out during a fight, which will definitely throw you off because you might not see where blows are coming from. The camera will also get stuck on environmental objects or get obstructed by trees or other items, so you will have trouble seeing clearly. Finally, you'll run into slowdown, particularly if you trigger a destructive spell on a large number of enemies."

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power of Green - 1108 days 9 hours ago

Sony fanboys dont care about reality they always make a bunch of noise then they fade into oblivion till the next console comes out and the non fanboys that pick up PS2/3 get cought up in the hype/crazz/lies, and they dont buy the games that proves their buying in to the Hype.

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proudtobetom - 1108 days 6 hours ago

Personaly the only people that are gibving out bad reviews are IGN probably cause there bias! ive seen about 12 other reviws for this game and they've been at the very least 8.7! so why dont you all shut up yo patetic xbox 360 fan boys ps the only reason u are winging on this website is causeu havent got any games to play!!

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FadeToBlack - 1108 days 5 hours ago

I have to go back a year ago when sony fanboys were making fun of the 360 launch games which most of them had a rating between 7 - 9 on most credible sites. I mean Gun even got like a 7 and that was the worst game of the bunch pretty much. So i hope you all gloat in your own misery will shortages well into 2007 and the continuing lineup of rushed releases due to the difficult to program hardware.

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heihoosilver - 1108 days 1 hour ago

Welcome to chang3 from Xbox360 HD graphics to Ps2 like graphics.HaHaHahahahahahahahah ha.

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golden_cannon - 1107 days 23 hours ago

these bad reviews don't look good for the ps3. If they're having that much trouble developing for it, then it might take longer than I thought to see a smooth game (bar R:FOM).

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Lex Luthor - 1107 days 19 hours ago

I seriously think it's safe to assume now that the PS3 is a piece of dog Turd used only to push Boo-ray. In no way whatsoever have sony made the PS3 a platform where developers can effiecntly and
productively create games. The hardware is poor (IMO) and the software tools are a complete shambles. And they have the nerve to sell it for $600; that is a fVcking joke.

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heihoosilver - 1107 days 4 hours ago

Whats your problem?
I have mine since 25/12/2005 and i have the games that push more from 360 and it runs smooth an clear. If you had a problem bad luck, ihave two Ps2 in junk, but for me and most of people 360 runs perfectly so send it back to microsoft to repair it.
For the article, i think sony should made a cable to link to 360 for playing the cgi things and let 360 take care o the graphics stuf, tht´s gonna be a hell of a game machine.

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