Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

The minds of emNew York Times/em bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, emSpawn/em creator Todd McFarlane, and emElder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/em lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create emKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning/em, 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.

div class="aplus" p iKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning/i is a single player Action Role-playing Game (RPG) set in the brand-new game fantasy universe of Amalur. The game features an expansive Open World game environment, the unique "Destinies" system that limits character development only by the combination of equipped spells and items carried, intuitive yet challenging combat, a robust crafting system and a range of special attacks. Additional features include: the written and design talents of R.A. Salvatore, Todd McFarlane and Ken Rolston; dramatic special and metered attacks; as well as multiple in-game races. /p div class="leftImage" style="width: 200px;"img alt="Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning game logo" title="Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning game logo" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/koa.reckoning.logo.200.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="44"/div h4Amalur: a New RPG Realm with an Proven Pedigree/h4 p iKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning/i takes place in Amalur, an all-new game universe inhabited by various races of beings and filled with thousands of years of history. This deep fantasy based world is the brainchild of best-selling Fantasy and Science Fiction author R.A. Salvatore and the combined talents of Todd McFarlane, the creator of the iSpawn/i series, Ken Rolston, the lead designer of iThe Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind/i and iThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/i, and the team at Big Huge Games. iReckoning/i bears the hallmarks of each of these visionaries, melding an epic, master-crafted storyline, rich graphics and heart-stopping animations, and compelling open-world exploration. In addition to being the setting for iReckoning/i, this rich world will also serve as a base for a future trans-media entertainment experience, including books, toys, comics, and a planned MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online RPG) video game yet be announced. /p div class="rightImage" style="width: 300px;"img alt="Combat against multiple enemies in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" title="Combat against multiple enemies in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/koa.reckoning.04.sm.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="169" div class="imageCaption"An all-new Action RPG adventure and universe.br/ View larger. /div /div h4Gameplay/h4 p iKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning/i is a single player Action RPG that blends a new approach to character development with intuitive, yet challenging real-time combat. Characters enter the game as something of a blank slate after they are resurrected from death by the mysterious "Well of Souls" following a grand in-game conflict. Spurning the rigid character class systems commonly used in RPGs for the development of characters, the game instead focuses on player-shaped "destines" which hinge on the chosen combinations of abilities and equipped items and weapons attached to their character as the game progresses. With no traditional classes these are blended as the play wishes. This along with a large item inventory limit and a robust crafting system for creating new items, allows for a nearly limitless number of possible character paths, or destines./p p Active combat plays a major role in the game as players explore the Open World environment of the game on quests that bring them into contact with all manner of creatures. Regardless of character paths, all characters have access to primary and secondary weapons as well as magic. Unique attacks are tied to your choice of weapons, armor and strategies. The game also features powerful slow-motion attack opportunities called "Fateshift Kills" triggered by specific situations and/or equipped items. These devastating attacks are measured out as players time moves to a separate "Fate Energy" power meter. Additional features include unscripted real-time battles against large-scale enemies, melee and ranged weapons and enemy tagging abilities for ranged or delayed attacks. /p h4Additional Screenshots/h4 table align="center" tr cellspacing="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" td width="208px" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" div class="centerImage"img alt="Merged magic and melee combat in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" title="Merged magic and melee combat in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/koa.reckoning.03a.sm.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="150" div class="imageCaption"Seamless melee magic.br/ View larger. /div /div /td td width="208px" cellpadding="3" div class="centerImage"img alt="A female Dark Elf character from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" title="A female Dark Elf character from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/koa.reckoning.02.sm.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="150" div class="imageCaption"Multiple races race varieties.br/ View larger. /div /div /td td width="208px" cellpadding="3" div class="centerImage"img alt="A beautiful interior environment from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" title="A beautiful interior environment from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/koa.reckoning.01a.sm.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="150" div class="imageCaption"A beautiful Open World.br/ View larger. /div /div /td td width="208px" cellpadding="3" div class="centerImage"img alt="Unleashing a special finishing move against an enemy in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" title="Unleashing a special finishing move against an enemy in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/koa.reckoning.05b.sm.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="150" div class="imageCaption"Unique character customization.br/ View larger. /div /div /td /tr /table /div h5System Requirements/h5 table style="width: 80%" border=1 cellpadding="3" align="center" tr td width="18%" /td td width="40%" bMinimum Specifications:/b/td td width="40%" bRecommended Specifications:/b/td /tr tr td width="18%"OS:/td td colspan="2"Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP2 /Windows 7 SP1/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="18%"Processor:/td td width="40%"Intel Core2 Duo (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHz or greater, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (or equivalent) running at 2.6GHz or greater/td td width="40%"Intel Core 2 Quad (or equivalent) running at 2.4GHz or greater, AMD Phenom X4 (or equivalent) running at 2.6GHz or greater/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="18%"RAM:/td td width="40%"At least 1 GB for Windows XP, At least 2 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7/td td width="40%"At least 3 GB for Windows XP, At least 4 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="18%"Hard Drive:/td td colspan="2"10.5 GB/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="18%"Video Card:/td td width="40%"NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or better, ATI Radeon HD3650 512MB or better, Supporting Pixel Shader 3.0, Minimum Resolution Supported is 1280x720/td td width="40%"NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 1GB RAM or better, ATI Radeon HD4850 1GB RAM or better, Supporting Pixel Shader 3.0/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="18%"Controls:/td td colspan="2"Mouse, Keyboard, and Xbox360 controller/td /tr tr valign="top" td width="18%"Additional Info:/td td td colspan="2"DirectX 9.0 compatible; Requires biOrigin/b/i account for installation and activation /td /table /br /div