Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Xbox 360

I bought this fairly recently, even though it has been out a while. I love fantasy RPGs where you get to play a female character (you can also choose to be male). I could make this an incredibly in-depth review, but nobody wants to read a review that is as long as a book, so I will try to keep it as short as possible.In my opinion, the game is a mix between Fable and The Elder Scrolls. I really love how many choices you get in this game and how complicated and intricate everything is. The world is huge, there are countless weapons and armor, and they aren't all rusty longswords either. The weapons I find in random treasure boxes while exploring are actually interesting and fun to use. I like that there are so many different types of weapons. I usually stick with one or two main weapons and switch between them, but the weapons in this game make it so hard to choose! My favorite are the Faeblades, but the daggers, great sword, staffs, etc. are all so much fun to use, too, especially with their different enchantments. Always pay attention to the enchantments before selling ones you don't want. Sometimes they will add an extra point to your Finesse, Stealth, Persuasion, etc., which can be really useful to have on you when you really need a boost in those skills.I love how streamlined everything is. Usually, "streamlined" means "dumbed down," but the Reckoning is an exception. I absolutely LOVE how you can easily add things you want to sell to Junk, so when you find a merchant, you just click Y, and everything is sold. You don't have to painstakingly go through your inventory, and it keeps your inventory from getting really cluttered. I also LOOOOVE that when you save your game, you don't have to sit there, staring at the menu, waiting for the circle to stop moving, so you can get back to your game. All you have to do is click save, exit out of the menu, and start playing, and it will still save. I am an obsessive saver and very impatient, so this was a huge plus to me. I also liked how there was not a cap on how much money a merchant had, so you could sell anything you needed to one person and not have to travel around to three different people (I'm looking at you, Skyrim). There are many other little things the game developers thought of that just make playing the game easier, but I'm blanking on the rest right now.I also love the stories and quests. Everybody loves the Elder Scrolls games, but can we just admit the quests that involve walking through caves that seemingly never end can get a bit tedious? I really like that the caves in this game tend to be pretty small, so you aren't in there for hour after hour, fighting the same bears and rats over and over again. The quests and characters are really creative, and the stories and histories had a lot of depth. The game really draws you in. The characters had a lot of personality. Some are really funny, some are weird, and some are helpful and nice. They just really came across as separate individuals, many with their own back stories. The quests are fun and creative, and most importantly of all, RARELY BORING! It's like living in a fantasy novel. I can tell R.A. Salvatore worked on this. I had so much fun playing the House of Valor. It's like the Arena in Oblivion, but with more intrigue and a better story. You can get the code for this automatically if you buy the game new.The fate-weaving, destiny, and level-up systems were pretty complicated to me at first, but in a good way. Most games now try to appeal to casual gamers and make things easy and less complex and utilize way too many cut-scenes. While I probably can't claim to be a hardcore gamer, I do like a challenge and some complexity. I liked how hard it was to dispel chests at a low to med level, how hard it is to find all the lodestones, how much harder it is to sneak than in the Elder Scrolls games, and how I kept dying at the beginning, so much so that an insulting message popped up, assuring me that it's okay to change my difficulty level to Novice (no thanks). I absolutely loved how hard it is to make money and save up enough to buy really expensive things. This is not a game where you amass so much wealth, you could buy a country. You have to work for it while you lust after high-damage weapons with cool magical properties until you have enough money. This is much better than immediate gratification. Just one cool weapon or one piece of armor can cost half a million dollars, which is pretty hard to save up to.The combat system is fun and creative. You have to time certain moves right, and you can plan out creative attacks, using magic, arrows, and spells, giving you more XP points. I'm on level 25 now, and I still die sometimes because the game remains challenging.Some tips:Do some research before you really start playing, so you don't screw up. Skills that are useful to level up, especially at the beginning of the game, are Detect Hidden and Persuasion. You'll miss out on some cool stuff without these skills. Dispelling is also something I wish I had leveled up at the beginning because I totally sucked at dispelling chests and kept getting cursed from failing at it. Curses are expensive to remove... If you find yourself with one and you saved before you tried to dispel the chest, then just restart at your last saved point, even if that means you don't get whats in the chest. It most likely won't be worth more than the cost to get the curse removed. Also, read about how they level enemies. Here is a link that might be useful: [...]This discouraged me from exploring really far at the beginning of the game: "The exact level of the enemies you face in each area is locked as soon as you first step foot into that area. Whenever possible, this 'level lock' will be identical to whatever level you are. However, if you're either below the minimum value, or above the maximum value, the level will lock at those minimum/maximum values." I did not want to lock enemies down to level 3 everywhere just because I felt like exploring all the way to Rathir or somewhere far away. It's just something to keep in mind.This review has gone on way too long, so I'll wrap up. It's a really, really fun, addictive game, and I have spent an embarrassing amount of time playing it, forgoing sleep and responsibilities. I would definitely recommend!

Kingdoms of Amalur is probably the most fun I've ever had in a game, besides maybe Resident Evil. That isn't particularly hard to achieve since I'm fairly new to gaming, but I will say, there are some things it does way better than a lot of games.Likes: It's a lot like Skyrim or Fable. The battle system for this game is amazing. Since it's open world like Skyrim, you have a lot of choices to make along the way to completing the game's story, but its everything Skyrim wasn't in a battle adventure game and more. When I say that, it isn't just because you get to customize the way your character fights, or the strengths your character has. It has to do with the way the whole world is built. Every monster in Amalur requires you to fight a certain way. Over time you may find a weapon that you love, and use repeatedly in fight after fight, but then there will be that one monster that requires you to completely change you arsenal either because they are immune to fire, best fought from a distance, or only really possible to fight with fast and light weapons or blunt and heavy weapons. In other words, fight a rock troll with a hammer, not a bow, and fight a mana-sucking magic user with something other than magic. As a result, the whole game requires strategy. It also requires you to understand and use the mass of potions in your inventory. They may not seem important until you fight something where they really are.Customization is virtually endless in this game. Like Skyrim, you get to choose what your character looks like at the beginning of the game, including race and gender. If that wasn't enough, however, it has tons of different kinds of armor, mage robes, and the like. You can even customize some weapons and equipment with extra gems, giving them even more affects to keep them usable longer.The graphics in this game are vibrant and beautiful, and the atmosphere changes throughout the world, and will even change in a location over time depending on what is going on. Each area of the map seems to have its own story quest. So if you arrive in the Webwood at the beginning of the town's story, most of the character's quests for you will relate somehow to what's plaguing their town. Sometimes you'll find that if you take two quests from different people who reside in one location, you might be able to kill 2 birds with one stone. In other words, 2 quests with one dungeon, or the like.Fast traveling is possible on the world map, but to truly enjoy the game in the beginning, I would just suggest going places on foot for a little while.The side quests in this game are worth playing. For every quest you complete, not only does your xp go up and your level steadily increase, giving you access to an incredible variety of skills and spells, but it also gives you other perks as well, such as rare items or even your own place. There are several chances to get your own residence in the game, and these usually occur after you've completed a quest. But be careful, unlike a lot of games, sometimes a quest is completed by your character making a choice to not do something. Should you really kill that guy, or should you let him live? Switching sides in the middle of a quest to help someone do something isn't uncommon in this game, so be careful who you trust and why you make the decisions you do. In some cases, a boss you're sent to fight may even give you the choice to change sides and work for them instead. The side quests really help customize your game and immerse you in the world. For some, you may even find yourself battling boss class enemies that dive off the main story, so if you ignore them, you're missing out.Reckoning mode is one of the coolest things. If you've ever watched "Legend of Korra" or "Avatar: The Last Air Bender," you probably wish you could magically go into the Avatar state and decimate everyone. Reckoning Mode is like that. While it takes some time to charge, once its available to use, you can activate Reckoning Mode to slow down the fight and do some incredible damage to your foes. Your character's eyes will even glow blue like the Avatar. The only thing that might turn some people off is that this takes some of the challenge out of fights. But don't worry too much. The time it takes to recharge is more than enough to kick your butt in say... a cave full of a dozen rock trolls.Magic looks amazing. Attributed to the game's vibrant graphics, spells cast in the game are incredible. In fact, many times when you're battling a mage, or using magic yourself, you can see how a spell affects your character or the monster/person you're fighting. This also applies to weapon affects. If your sword has a flame affect, you'll see your opponent catch on fire. If your shield has a stun affect and you perry, your enemy will reflect that. If you have something that causes bleeding damage, blood will start spurting. The possibilities are endless.Dislikes: The only thing I can possibly complain about for this game is that the company no longer exists (having gone bankrupt), which means no more updates.Unknowns: I've logged over 50 hours in this game at this point, and I still haven't reached the end yet, so I'm not sure if the ending is good or not, but from the story that I have seen, it's promising.Edit: I reached the end of this game over Christmas. All I can say is that, for me at least, it had one of the most satisfying endings I've seen in a game so far. That said, it's still open world, so you can play with all your rewards, equipment, titles, and royal acknowledgements after you've beat the game. And I think, that has its own kind of fun to it.

Very Good

Juegazo que con el tiempo está siendo más apreciado

El paquete llegó sin demora el día esperado y en perfecto estado. El embalaje es el habitual, la típica caja de cartón de Amazon. El videojuego venía con el embalaje original y el precinto oficial de Microsoft sellado. El videojuego al iniciarlo por primera vez el idioma cambió automáticamente a español (sólo subtítulos) No existe doblaje español para este juego.El precio es más que justo y más barato que en otras tiendas.En cuanto al videojuego. Ya hay suficientes reviews sobre el pero, para mí es un pedazo juego.Muy satisfecho con la compra. Volvería a comprar en esta tienda sin dudarlo.

Contrairement à ce qu'indique le descriptif à plusieurs reprises, il s'agit de la version Xbox 360 et non la version PS3 ! Donc attention lorsque vous le commandez. Remarque : le vendeur a été honnête et m'a remboursé.

Surpasses Oblivion in its detail. Hours of fun with thousands of choices to be made. Highly recommended to all my friends