Ladies and gentledogs, in a brilliant maneuver of cross promotion and marketing, you have to go and download the Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning demo and play it NOW. Steam or xBox (of ps3 I imagine). I'll wait.
Downloading? Bueno.
First of all, you should play the demo because KoAR is a beautiful, beautiful game. It's sporting some of the most best graphics and animation I've ever seen in an xbox game. It's produced by Curt Schilling, RA Salvatore (of Drizzt fame) wrote 10,000 years of history for the world, Todd MacFarlane (spawn) helped on the art and animation and Ken Rowlston (exec designer of Oblivion) helped out as well. It plays like Elder Scrolls, but the combat is more akin to Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Here's the real reason:
You play the demo, you play the whole demo, you get items unlocked for both the full version of KoAR as well as Mass Effect 3! Boom! Go for it. From what I understand, you play the xbox version you get goodies for xbox ME3, PC for PC, etc etc. It connects to your EA account (yay and nay) and that's how it knows what you've done. I don't think it's any gamebreaking must have stuff, but still, IT'S STUFF!!!! Yay stuff!
The game itself is gorgeous, the artwork caught me off guard how good it was when I first started playing. It does have a very Warcraft feel to it, with gnomes and other fantasy tropes running around. The game itself plays exactly like an Elder Scrolls game, you almost have the same set of skills as you do in Oblivion and Skyrim, mercantile, blacksmithing, alchemy, persuasion etc etc. Where the game really stands out is in the talent trees. Instead of WoW or Diablo or SWTOR where the class you pick controls your talent trees, your talent trees control your class. It's kinda weird at first, but once you get into it it makes more sense. Basically, you get bonuses depending on where you put your points, if you go all magic you get great increases to mana regen as well as new spells, but if you spread your points over every tree you get bonuses to all skills and abilities.
Hey, the demo is free, it's worth checking out. Just be prepared to be subjected to an awful tutorial to start the game off.
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