Разработчик: Big Huge Games
Описание
Re-Reckoning
Greetings, traveller!
Destiny awaits you, but due to a publisher change surrounding Kingdoms of Amalur, this version is no longer available. If you want to choose your fate and battle through this world worth saving, follow this propitious path:
About the Game
The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving. Build the character you've always wanted and continuously evolve it to your style of play with the revolutionary Destiny system. Choose your path and battle through a master-crafted universe featuring some of the most intense, responsive, and customizable RPG combat ever.Key Features:
A Massive World to Explore, Filled with Epic Fiction and Rich Storytelling
- Uncover the secrets of Amalur in hundreds of hours of immersive gameplay, 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. Turn your lack of a destiny to your advantage and harness fate as a weapon.
- Explore deep levels of lore in a universe steeped in 10,000 years of fiction created by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore.
- Customize your play in a dynamic combat system that delivers some of the most intense and responsive action ever seen in an RPG.
- Seamlessly integrate magical and melee attacks as you take on scores of enemies in grand fight sequences and finish them off with brutal Fateshift kills.
- Build the character you've always wanted with the revolutionary new Destiny system that allows you to continuously evolve your character class to your style of play.
- Create and modify your hero with millions of combinations of skills, abilities, weapons and pieces of armor.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, italian, spanish - spain
Системные требования
Windows
- 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
Отзывы пользователей
Excellent game
It's got fluid combat, a pretty flexible class system, interesting lore and world to explore, and strong visuals (vibrant, colorful art style). My biggest complaint is that KoA's chock-full of fetch and kill quests that become repetitive real fast. The story's also not very memorable; it starts off strong, but it kind of fizzles out towards the end.
Overall, it's a fun game, but I think it would've been a lot better if it had co-op/multiplayer, as at times it feels like an MMO-lite.
I had a good time playing this game, beat it fully in 35 hours. Good play time, solid game.
Flawed, but still lots of fun!
Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning Review: Avoid this, I reckon
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was fated to be a disappointment, it seems. The only visionary thing about it is that it pioneered the “AI-generated” aesthetic 10 years before it became a real thing. I can appreciate that this game took time and talent to create, but other than that, I’m genuinely at a loss when it comes to positive things to say about it. Don’t be fooled by the flashy animations and the off-brand Warcraft look, this game is absolutely not worth your time, even if you get it for free. You might get more out of spending your money on a cereal box and playing the games on the back.
Disclaimer:
Annoyingly, Reckoning is off the store for purchase now that Re-Reckoning is out - however this remaster constitutes mostly visual, and a few gameplay changes, so the experience will likely be only marginally better than this version.
Please note that this review does not comment on the DLC as due to some bug I couldn’t find a fix for, I was locked out of them.
Steam Deck Performance:
It runs fantastically on the deck, but there’s this weird flaw on the native controller layout that gives you massively reduced access to abilities, so I actually recommend emulating PC controls instead.
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I really wanted to like KOA:R. I started playing it first during a time when I was craving a brain break and needed that fantasy RPG itch scratched. If that’s all you want, and don’t plan on finishing it, then the game does deliver on that promise. There is also something to be said about the game’s lack of microtransactions. KOA:R truly is a relic of an EA of the past, before they chose the evil route. Indeed, KOA:R might deserve the benefit of the doubt due to its age. At least, that’s what I would have said if Skyrim and Dark Souls, two of the most innovative and influential action RPGs of the era, hadn’t released the year before KOA:R did.
Some fun! Some fun! A kingdom for some fun!
KOA:R commits the worst sin of all in art: it is bland. If it were a flavour, it would taste the way an unseasoned bowl of rice tastes to a COVID patient. Worse yet, not only is it bland, it’s long: Imagine now said patient had to eat through a full saucepan of unseasoned rice. Problems can be found everywhere: The map is too big but your movement is too slow. Dungeons variety is near-nonexistent, and their layout is about as intricate as a set of train tracks. Quests feel like an ever-growing list of chores, while never deviating from the same three types. This kind of “chore-based” gameplay can be fun when tied to interesting characters, stories and rewards, but KOA:R does none of that. Instead, I was constantly questioning why I was even doing the quests. I’m still not sure I know the answer.
I see a lot of people in the Steam reviews for this game who will agree with the above, but praise the game anyway for its combat. Maybe this was even the reason I bought the game so many years ago. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it would have had to be bloody good to excuse all the other problems. It wasn’t. KOA:R has well-animated and engaging combat that is further enhanced by a fairly in-depth skill tree system, and at first this is rather fun. From this angle, it seems like I am praising it too, but much like a fresh car smell, the novelty of combat wears off quickly.
The problem with KOA:R’s combat is that underneath all the flashy animations and skills, it suffers from deeper balancing flaws. Firstly, you and enemies can stagger each other out of nearly any animation, which means that lone enemies will be spam-clicked until dead, while groups of enemies and spellcasters will stunlock the player into oblivion. The lack of in-depth weapon combos, boring spells, and the constantly repeated, overly tanky enemies makes most encounters feel like spam-clicking your way through a jar of honey. Defensive options have problems too: parries have strange windows that don’t work too often and clunky animation transitioning makes it hard to dodge in time. Reckoning mode, the kind of “power fantasy ultimate move” unique to the main character that every game of the era seemed to adore, is an absolute joke: An uninteresting time dilation plus damage boost that turns your combat into a DPS check and even more of a spamfest. It also sports an uncommon bug that might softlock you by clipping you into the ground, if you’re lucky.
Reckoning mode being such an abject failure was of particular disappointment for me, as the one truly cool thing KOA did was its idea of a world in which all fate is predetermined. Sadly, the writers managed to mess this up in the story too.
A story fated to fail
This last section is particularly salient, as I have a soft spot for this genre of fantasy. KOA:R’s writers had some great ideas, too. In Amalur, everyone’s lives are railroaded by fate, in particular the Fae, who relive their stories over and over for eternity.
Sadly, these ideas will always remain as simple ideas, as the game refuses to explore anything remotely interesting concerning them. Characters who have their fate unbound react with indifference, while Fae simply accept the changing world with a shrug. Take the fateweaver Agarth, a major character whose entire life was dedicated to interpreting the immutable weave of fate. When you save him from his predestined death, and unbind him from the weave he built his life on, he simply shrugs it off and says “I guess I can do what I want now”.
To make things worse, these good ideas are outliers, nuggets of gold in the trough of slop that is the rest of KOA’s world and narrative. The main storyline is a simplistic “walk here and kill the bad guy” story. Every character sounds like they came from fantasynamegenerators.com and the sheer quantity of them along with repetitive character design makes it hard to tell them apart, and easy to get lost in the narrative. Every faction is just a copy-pasted RPG archetype, and their questlines play out in a functionally identical manner: railroad you through a bunch of fetch quests before offering you a paltry singular choice 10 minutes before the questline ends. A choice that boils down to what permanent buff you want, and what NPCs will attack you on sight. The world barely reacts to your actions and choices, as immutable as the hundreds of talking rocks I tracked down so that I could listen to even more badly rhyming lore dumps that I instantly forget.
Beyond that, what more is there to say? The voice actors sound like they are reading meeting minutes with a Voicemod effect slapped over them. The world feels purposefully built around the game’s obsession with emptiness and fetch quests: Large open spaces sprinkled with the same enemies you have fought 50 times already. Bosses almost always reskinned enemies with some extra VFX slapped on, while exciting, “special” areas usually just wind up being the same copy-pasted dungeon layout everything else uses.
Something bizarre happened as I finished Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. As the credits rolled and I booted up NG+, I realized I had never played the DLC, and had never gotten a prompt for it. I did some research, tried everything I could think of, and concluded my copy was somehow broken. The ensuing sense of relief I felt was enormous. My time with Kingdoms of Amalur, I realized, had been a long and toxic abusive relationship. To put it clearly, this game is not good. I couldn’t recommend this and, given their lack of meaningful changes, any of the remasters to anyone in good faith unless you’re a masochist with time to waste like me. Just thank the stars we live in a world unbound to fate, and use your free will to choose not to buy this dumpster fire of an RPG.
1/6 - Horrendous
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If you enjoy late 2000s RPGs, you'll probably like this one. The story's decent, and the combat and customization really shine (even if the AI isn't very bright). However, do note: if you try to run the game over 1080p, you'll have UI issues (e.g., you won't be able to view your quest log).
did not like
+
Boring...
IMMACULATE FLAVOR
Ok, 12 years late to the punch and this version isn't even sold anymore, so I'll cut some corners =D
The bad:
Productions values were ok at the time but didn't age well. Game balance is weak, with many builds that trivialize everything. There's way too much side content for how much of it is needed to progress. There's an absurd training system which encourages you not to invest in the skills you want so you can benefits from trainers. This feels like it's been designed by unsupervised game design interns. Very bad 3Cs. The camera is floaty and transitions poorly, character controls are sometimes painfully irresponsible, and stunlocking with hit reaction animation (both inflicted and received) is just horrid. Coming from recent titles like Wayfinder, combat is comparatively dismal. Lack of level recommendation in the quest log is jarring. Terrible usability, only 4 spells shortcuts with a controller, when you have dozens of useful ones unlocked. The mage shield skill is bugged and annoying, hits environment, loses shards.
The good:
Refreshing to see good looking female characters. One of them even dresses sexy (gasp! sacrilege). The story is fine, the voice acting and animations ok for the period.
Verdict:
In 2024, this is a hard pass. It was probably a 70% game when it released, but today, there are better ways to spend your time.
Yes good game
It is rougher-around-the-edges, far more than anything and everything. Extremely wooden combat, for example. Ambience, the RPG side of it is great however. 7/10.
Very underrated, great open world RPG.
fun
Generic crap.
Minus some "camera" issues, the graphics are cool, story line is good and has plenty of missions. Lots pf time put in this game and only 1/10th completed. Enjoy!
The original Fable was one of my favorite Action RPGs, and when I first played the demo of this game on Xbox 360, it reminded me so much of that game that I went out and bought it. Much longer and less focused on straight morality than Fable, this is a satisfying 75+ hour romp through a very detailed fantasy world.
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Avery good game and one I keep coming back to with renewed interest
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a remarkable action RPG that successfully blends a vibrant open world, engaging combat mechanics, and a rich narrative, making it a standout title in the genre. Released in 2012 and later remastered as Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, the game invites players to explore a beautifully crafted universe filled with lore, intriguing characters, and countless adventures.
Immersive World and Lore
One of the most impressive aspects of Reckoning is its expansive and immersive world. Set in the vibrant realm of Amalur, the game features a diverse landscape that ranges from lush forests to desolate wastelands, each meticulously designed to draw players in. The attention to detail in the environment is remarkable, with stunning visuals and varied locations that encourage exploration.
The lore of Amalur is deep and engaging, crafted by renowned fantasy author R.A. Salvatore. Players encounter a rich tapestry of history, cultures, and factions, making the world feel alive and filled with stories waiting to be uncovered. The extensive lore provides context to quests and character interactions, enhancing the overall narrative experience.
Engaging Combat System
The combat in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is one of its standout features, offering a dynamic and fluid system that keeps players engaged. The game combines elements of action and RPG mechanics, allowing for a fast-paced, responsive experience. Players can choose from a variety of combat styles, whether preferring melee weapons, ranged attacks, or magic spells, and the ability to switch between these styles adds depth to gameplay.
Character customization is another highlight, with a robust skill tree that allows players to tailor their abilities and playstyle. This flexibility encourages experimentation, enabling players to craft unique builds that suit their preferences. The combat system rewards skill and strategy, making battles feel satisfying and exhilarating.
Quests and Character Development
The quest design in Reckoning is diverse and engaging, featuring a mix of main story missions and numerous side quests that add depth to the gameplay experience. The side quests are often well-written and offer meaningful choices that can impact the game world, allowing players to shape their character's journey.
Character development is a core element of the game, with a compelling system for leveling up and acquiring new skills. Players can invest points into various attributes, allowing for a sense of progression that feels rewarding. Additionally, the ability to respec characters means that players can adapt their builds as they explore different aspects of the game.
Beautiful Art and Sound Design
The artistic style of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is striking, with a colorful and imaginative design that captures the essence of a fantasy world. The character models, environments, and animations are all beautifully rendered, contributing to an overall visually appealing experience.
The sound design complements the visuals well, featuring an engaging score and high-quality voice acting that brings the characters and story to life. The combination of audio and visual elements enhances immersion, making players feel truly part of the world.
Conclusion
In summary, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a captivating RPG that combines an expansive world, engaging combat, and rich storytelling into a cohesive experience. Its vibrant environments, dynamic gameplay, and deep lore create an immersive journey that players can lose themselves in for hours on end. The remastered Re-Reckoning edition ensures that this beloved title remains accessible and visually impressive for a new generation of gamers. Whether you are an RPG enthusiast or a newcomer to the genre, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning offers an unforgettable adventure that is well worth exploring.
But get the Re-reckoning version.
Amazing Game
You can get OP easily but it's fun! The story is not good though. But good progression and gameplay!
Solid fun, certainly worth picking up if you are into ARPGs. Slightly clunky and dated menus and such compared to modern standards, other than that it's all good!
Not as long as some other RPG's but still a very good storyline and leveling system. Decent customization and crafting. Can't have followers but followers not really needed. You do have to run everywhere but once locations are unlocked you can fast travel. Really loved this game! Wish there was a sequel but the studio closed down before any of that could be realized which is very unfortunate.
Definitely recommend playing this!!
A great game that's better than its "Remaster"
The Combat is pretty simple but that's okay, not every Game needs a combat system that you need to STUDY.
The Story is pretty okay.
Its nice that you have enough options when it comes to creating your own weapons an Armor.
The World is pretty nice to look at and has a good Fantasy feel to it.
very fun.
GRAPHICS
🔘 MS-DOS graphic
🔘 Ugly, but still bearable
🔵 Fine, nothing too fancy
🔘 Pretty good
🔘 Next gen graphic or art
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STORY
🔘 What is the story?
🔵 Written by 5 years old child
🔘 Something that'll hook you up with the game
🔘 You can remember the story after you finished the game for a while
🔘 You cannot get it out of your head
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FUN
🔘 You want to delete it after a few minutes
🔘 It's not for everyone
🔘 Could be bored after a while
🔵 Can keep you entertained for hours straight
🔘 It's already morning?
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MUSIC
🔘 Just mute it
🔘 Few of them are good
🔵 Not the best, but it's good
🔘 You get immersed in the game
🔘 Sometimes you will need to stop playing the game to hear it.
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TOTAL SCORE: 12/20
>=17: you don't want to miss this masterpiece
>=14: definitely worth the price
>=6: if its on sale or free, you could consider to try it
<6: don't waste your time on it
very fluid combat, high fantasy, decent story. can't go wrong.
Loved everything about this game. Great to see it getting some love with the updated edition and extra story that comes with it.
I like the flow with plenty of options and side quests. There are entire side chains to play with constant leveling. The flexibility of the skills is also impressive. It's a be-whatever you want to be kind of RPG. The only thing I would want is more dialog options for the Fae.
Kinda generic and repetitive, because it was originally was meant to be an mmo. But it's still fun.
It has better melee combat than the Witcher 3
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Big Huge Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 81 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 88% положительных (8008) |