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Kingdoms Of Amalur Re-Reckoning Free Download GAMESPACK.NET When THQ Nordic announced it was remastering 2012’s Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, I was excited to dive back in. This is a western RPG that wasn’t an immediate success but has gained something of a cult following in the years after its developer imploded and the would-be franchise phased into obscurity. However, few cult classics hold up as well on a design level when viewed through a modern lens, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning doesn’t buck that trend. It may be an updated version of what was once a forward-looking adventure, but it fails to really deliver on the “Re–” so cheekily jammed into its title by bringing it up to par with its current competition. A lot of what our reviewer said then holds true in the 2020 remaster – but nearly every one of those items has an asterisk next to it, all leading to the same footnote: for its time. A western RPG with satisfying action combat? Amazing! …for its time. Being able to re-spec your abilities to try different playstyles whenever you like? Inspired! …for its time. Fully-voiced NPCs throughout the world that don’t all sound like one or two people doing the same voice for all of them? Okay, I still appreciate that one in 2020 – though you can definitely tell when you run into a Matt Mercer-voiced character now. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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So many parts of what originally made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning special in its time now feel mundane, or – at worst – heinously outdated today. Amalur’s gameplay – particularly its combat – is still its strongest aspect. It’s a satisfyingly arcadey take on RPG combat, more reminiscent of the God of War series (or perhaps even something by FromSoftware on harder difficulties) than contemporaries like Skyrim or Dragon Age. Timing and skill are almost as important as the abilities you’ve selected or what weapons armor you’ve equipped (and there’s plenty to agonize over in that regard). That being said, while there was a consistent challenge present right up to the final boss, it all felt a bit simplistic when compared to more modern games like 2018’s God of War or Sekiro (or even something like Horizon Zero Dawn), and I found my interest in mastering its limited nuances waning well before I reached the finale after some 40-odd hours. Graphics are far and away Amalur’s weakest link, though. Yes, the textures have been reworked for 4K screens and it’s got a boosted framerate and improved anti-aliasing, but the “remastering” .

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here feels like little more than one would see in an “Xbox One X Enhanced” version. Environments are still fairly barren, character models are somewhat blocky and their animations are clunky, and even with the new hardware adjustments the draw distance is surprisingly short. On a technical level, while our original review specifically praised Amalur for its stability (especially relative to other open-world games of the same era) I experienced several crashes and frequent visual glitches throughout my playthrough on a PlayStation 4 Pro. Similarly, while its menus and interface might have been acceptable eight years ago, today they feel clunky and impractical. Inventory management – something you’ll do a lot of thanks to the frequency at which you’ll collect mountains of new gear – is constantly bogged down in closing one menu only to have to open another, even to do something as simple as select a primary and secondary weapon. Dialogue menus – which are basically just a list of nouns that you can pick to get an NPC to spout lore about that topic – takes up half the screen for what could easily have been 15 to 20%, maximum, and the “small HUD” option does nothing to help this. Escape Forced Overtime

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It only shrinks the map and stat bars to a nigh-illegibly small size. It’s not a modern redesign by any means. As the clumsily structured name might tell you, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is a remaster of the original Kingdoms of Amalur, an open-world RPG that came out for last gen consoles back in 2012. However, despite sporting a real pedigree in terms of the people behind it, the game underperformed commercially and ultimately led to 38 Studios getting canned by EA (that’s their name, not a number). Here’s the thing though. Kingdoms of Amalur was fantastic and easily our favourite RPG on the Xbox 360. RPG purists tend to fawn all over Skyrim, much to the detriment of any other RPG and that was the case here maybe but Amalur was certainly no slouch. Designed by Ken Rolston, the Lead Designer of Oblivion (the best Elder Scrolls game) and with a rich lore created by R. A. Salvatore, the game promised to be an epic adventure. The tutorial teaches you the basics of movement and combat before spitting you out into the world and leaving you to explore your options. The most apparent thing is that the combat is just fantastic.

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You equip two weapons and have a basic magic attack right out of the gate and these are all mapped to separate face buttons on the controller. This allows you to mix and match your attacks on the fly for excellent results. So, for example, you might be facing a gang of trolls of which one is bigger and stronger than the rest. Typically, we’d use a long bow to start putting burning damage on one of them, which will kite the group towards us. Then we’d hit them with a blast of electric magic at mid-range, stunning at least one of them hopefully and we’d then finish up by going in with our close range attacks before using the handy dodge roll to then get back to range when our magic attack recharges. Add to that the variety of weapon types from close up weapons like swords to slightly longer range ones like chakrams and you’ve got a really fluid, versatile control system. It’s also a system that gets better as the game gets harder. Surviving some encounters requires every trick you’ve got as opposed to other RPGs where after mid-way through you’re basically an unkillable millionaire. For us at least, the heart of this game is the combat. Taken as a brilliant, fun hack and slasher, Amalur isalready an excellent game. Fallen Knight Switch NSP

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However, when you add in the RPG elements, the game is elevated to another level. It’s not even fair to say ‘elements’ as this is a solid, comprehensive RPG in every way. You’ve got your massive main quest, a huge number of side quests to undertake, an enormous and varied open world to explore and all the other RPG trappings such as blacksmithing, creating gems to socket into gear, making potions from all the flora in the world and everything else you’d expect. Compared to Oblivion and Skyrim, there’s nothing missing here at all. It is your choice when it comes to how much you engage with all those elements. It’s there if you want to deep dive into the RPG side of the game, which you will need to a bit in order to stay competitive as the enemies get more difficult to beat. This applies to all the side quests too of which there are many. Arguably there are too many. Every new location leads to a handful of new quests and those quests can lead to more. If you’re someone who likes to clear out the map as you go along, you can find yourself bogged down by them. Especially as the side quests tend to fall into the usual pattern of finding out what happened to a patrol/spouse/family member for someone or the usual fetch and return tasks that we’re so used to in this genre.

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Perhaps the best bit is how accessible it all is. For all of the choices the game gives you in terms of leveling up your character, the story is big on the idea that you have no fate, that this world is yours to shape as you go along and that means that you can easily re-spec yourself if needed too. So if a tanky melee-focused build isn’t working out for you, you can ditch all of that and focus on something else. We played the original Amalur after getting ourselves painted into a corner with Sacred 2: Fallen Angel where we found that we’d basically leveled up wrong and were unable to progress in the game as a certain boss was unkillable under our skillset. No such worries here. Amalur doesn’t punish you for making bad decisions. When we say that Amalur was our favourite RPG of the previous generation that might suggest that Skyrim wasn’t as big a deal to us (although I personally played through Oblivion twice back to back because it was so good). The reason for that was partly the setting. That North Tamriel frozen wasteland got pretty dreary and repetitive for us but Amalur‘s world is bright, colourful and varied. It was designed by Todd McFarlane and while it won’t win too many points for originality, this is an RPG after all, it is a nice world to spend all of these hours in.

That said, even back when it was originally released, Amalur wasn’t a technical marvel when it came to the visuals. The character models had that clunkiness to them that the Saints Row games have where hairstyles seem to be plastic moulds stuck onto faces that look like they’ve been punched a lot and it’s not a super hi-res, million frames per second visual feast. But it does all look good enough for sure and some of the areas you visit are beautifully designed, even if they aren’t as sharp as you might hope. The game’s soundtrack, as produced by Rare veteran Grant Kirkhope, is epic and ambitious but it does clearly draw maybe a bit too much inspiration from John Williams’ work on the Star Wars films. We did appreciate that every bit of dialogue in the game is recorded with voice actors and while the acting quality is pretty variable, it does help add a sense of importance to all of those side quests. The hit RPG returns! From the minds of the bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston, comes Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world.

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Uncover the secrets of Amalur, from the vibrant city of Rathir to the vast region of Dalentarth to the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns. Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war and control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was an ambitious plan and an almost offensive planning process that involved throwing money while hopping on for every successful game at the time. When development began around 2009, World of Warcraft was the Only Game on PC and consequentially, quest-grinding was the wave of the future as copycats misunderstood what made World of Warcraft so popular. Meanwhile, Oblivion was still the most popular single player RPG on PC and the God of War series was still some of the best action gameplay available. So, too many interested parties to list came together to make the next big console RPG (after scrapping a too-expensive MMORPG project.) It would have God of War action combat, Oblivion’s sprawling world full of copy-paste dungeons, and World of Warcraft’s quest-grinding formula.. The interested parties then hired whatever big-name talent they could find: R.A Salvatore of Drizzt fame, Todd McFarlane for his Spawn fame, and some guy that won some awards for generic soundtracks. Call of Duty World at War

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