It took me more than 40 hours to reach the end credits – the main story chunk of which was mostly satisfying, despite a few tired cliches and a lot of eleventh-hour exposition – and I definitely wasn’t stopping to smell the roses after the first ten or so hours. Even before you get into the two DLC expansions that are included in Re-Reckoning, there’s an impressive amount of side quests, faction stories, and ancillary adventures. So many parts of what originally made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning special in its time now feel mundane, or – at worst – heinously outdated today.Īmalur’s main story doesn’t feature the branching paths of, say, Mass Effect 2 or The Witcher 3, but what it lacks in the flexibility of its stories, Amalur makes up for in sheer volume of things to do. 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. Being able to re-spec your abilities to try different playstyles whenever you like? Inspired! … for its time.

A western RPG with satisfying action combat? Amazing! … for its time.

Score: 9 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.

But no matter what you're looking for, whether it be amazing gameplay, immersive storytelling or perhaps a riveting new world to explore as you fully customize and re-customize your character at will, Reckoning has it all. Its random technical hiccups and inconsistent art style certainly hold it back from even higher levels of greatness. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Review Verdict By Colin Moriarty, February 3, 2012Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning keeps pace with the greats of the genre, while easily outclassing all of them in what matters most: gameplay… Reckoning isn't the perfect game.

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