Amalur is the huge fantasy world that will be the backdrop for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which will be a brand new fighting RPG release. This game release promises to be something special considering the executive game designer is Ken Rolston (executive designer for the popular Elder Scrolls 3 and 4 titles), the storyline being written by renowned author R. A. Salvatore (who's been on the New York Times bestseller list on 22 occasions), and all the in-game artwork and animation being directed by Todd McFarlane (Spider-Man artist along with the designer of the game Spawn).

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a huge open-world title, with the world of Amalur having 5 different zones. Players can select from four playable races within the game including two human races and two elf races. Also, there are 3 individual class-trees (Might, Finesse plus Sorcery), containing twenty-two attainable abilities per class-tree. The flexible combat system enables any character to simultaneously use a main as well as a second weapon, together with an assortment of magic spell-types - there are a wide range of melee-weapon as well as ranged-weapon classes, as well as a multitude of spells to choose from.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will be an immense video game, which includes an engaging story, a variety of side-quests, as well as a gigantic sandbox environment which to explore. Along with the main-quest taking around sixty hours to finish, there's loads of substance to this game to keep RPG fans enthralled for many months to come.

HIGHLIGHTS AND FEATURES:

Fascinating Sandbox World to Uncover - The five areas of Amalur are loaded with stunning vistas, strange cities and towns, fantastic animals, gruesome foes along with colourful individuals to talk to. Players can focus on finishing just the primary mission, completing the various side-quests they uncover, as well as just proceed and uncover the regions of Amalur - it's your choice.

Flexible Character Creation - Select from 4 distinct races, the Almain (noble humans), the Varani (nomadic humans), the Ljosalfar (light elves), and the Dokkalfar (dark elves). Players begin this adventure as a 'blank slate', but may develop his or her's chosen character using three distinctive class trees - a rogue (Finesse), a fighter (Might), a mage (Sorcery). There are 22 ability-types per class-tree and you're able to customise your selected hero in whatever way you desire utilising a blend of abilities and skills using any class-tree.

Flexible Combat Scheme - Any character chosen can utilise a primary along with a alternative weapon, as well as cast magical spells simultaneously. Equip yourself for combat with a selection of melee-weapons (there are nine hand-to-hand weapon classes), long-distance weapons (such as long-bows), various types of shields and armour, and dozens of accessible magic spells. Finish off ones adversaries making use of Fateshift kill-moves, which are ferocious slow-mo knockout/kill moves.

Collect and Craft Handy Items - Having a large limit to the number of items one can hold, players can collect plenty of helpful items and also weapons whilst travelling through the game. Utilising items collected, gamers may use the ingenious object crafting system to create brand-new items.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is due for release from 10th Feb, 2012, with the video game to be available on these platforms: Xbox 360 Consoles, PS3 and PC/Windows. The publishing house for the video game is Electronic Arts, and 38 Studios / Big Huge Games are the developers for this video game. This game will be single-player only. The PEGI rating issued to this video game will be PEGI 18, that means it will be appropriate for ages 18 and upwards.