Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning takes place in a fictional region called Faelands which is one of the Kingdom of Amalur. There the immortal Fae of the Summer lives, but immortality means only that after death you will become something else in another body. There are five different regions of Faelands and four playable different races with three different class trees. The player starts as a "Fateless" being before the choosing between three classes.
The combat of the game is timing based and similar to other action-role-playing games with addition of QTE elements during cutscenes. While in combat, player gains fate points and with required amount of them player can enter Reckoning Mode, which is a slow-motion berserk-like mode which lets player to quickly kill all the enemies. Not only a player has the ability to jump or swim on the water, but also can communicate, rob or kill NPCs, which has its consequences. It is said that Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning mixes up ideas from games such as God of War and The Elder Scrolls series.
System requirements for PC
- OS: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1
- Processor: 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or 2.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
- Memory: 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Hard Disk Space: 10.5 GB
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / 512MB RAM or better, ATI Radeon HD3850 / 512MB RAM (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support), 1280x720 minimum supported resolution
- Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
- OS: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1
- Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad or 2.6GHz AMD Phenom X4
- Memory: 3 GB RAM for Windows XP / 4 GB Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Hard Disk Space: 10.5 GB
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 / 1GB RAM or better, ATI Radeon HD4850 / 1GB RAM (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support), 1280x720 minimum supported resolution
- Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
System requirements for PlayStation 3
System requirements for Xbox 360
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning reviews and comments
The story, while typical of high-concept fantasy like this, is fairly strong. There's also plenty of rich side-stories to experience. The combat, however, is where the game really shines. It's over the top, the build customization and variety is great, skills feel good and powerful, and the legendary gear feels satisfying to find and use.
Would recommend for anyone looking for a fantasy world to dive into or for an interesting RPG system to play around with.
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