DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE IF YOU HATE SPOILERS! MMORPG.com has a first hand preview of 38 Studios' Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning. As most know, Amalur is the single-player RPG that will precede the MMO to come in the future. See what we discovered about Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning and then let us know what you think!

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you probably should have heard of this upcoming game. Perhaps not the name but surely the circumstances and people involved. This game is created by 38 Studios – the game studio that Curt Schilling, formerly of the MLB and avid player (and former spokesperson) of SoE’s EverQuest founded. The team he put together includes award winning writer R.A. Salvatore, artist Todd McFarlane of Spawn fame and Ken Rolston of Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Oblivion fame. Beginning to sound familiar? We covered their first reveal at Comic Con 2010. Since then, 38 Studios acquired Big Huge Games of Rise of Nations fame and MMORPG.com was invited to a gameplay preview in October.

Read more of Carolyn Koh's Kingdoms of Amalur: Hands-on Preview.

Pre-ordered today on Amazon =)  It's on sale for $50.99 (15% off) for the digital download and you don't pay anything until the release date!

Anyone know if this will be on Steam?

If not ill buy it on 360.

I hate using other digital distributors.

Word is they are working on getting it on steam, I read that Curt Schilling posted that they are hoping to get it on there soon.

Oh why do you tease me....... lol. 

This is one game where it would be hard for it to not live up to the hype. The team they have is just unprecedented in the world of gaming. 

My money was ready awhile ago with just the following.... R.A. Salvatore, Ken Rolsten, Todd McFarlane and the first gameplay vid shown a bit ago. 

I was actually looking forward to this title more than I was looking forward to Skyrim, Skyrim just happened to launch first. 

Hope against hope they can put a decent UI along with it, that really killed Skyrim for me.

So highly hyped for this game it is not funny.  So is my wife.  I think she is more excited than me for this game.

Hope it lives up to its hype...Which I forsee it doing!

Thanks for the reminder, just pre-ordered

So the limited editions went up... they are very limited... get them while they are hot lol... wish I had the money :(

http://limitededitions.reckoning.com/

just ordered the signature edition, too bad i'll never open it. I'll wait for steam for my playcopy

Nice.  Hope it gets on steam soon. I'd like to get this as part of my familiarization with the mmo.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Hope against hope they can put a decent UI along with it, that really killed Skyrim for me.

 

Christ u guys want everything to b perfect...

Actually, I loved the UI. Very spare. But the way they've designed the game and the skills, there's no need for multiple hot-bars. We were joking about some games which require multiple upon multiples of hot-bars.

I like the UI of skyrim.  I don't need half my screen to be filled with damage meters, mini-maps, quest logs, and what nots.  I'd rather just have a compass and be shown which skill i have equipped...that's all i need, and all i really want.  My biggest hate on WoW is that you can make a UI where you just hit 1 button and you win every battle...boring.  I like old school where you didn't have a UI.../quit from daoc anyone? :)

As someone who only has a PC and no controller I thank you for being almost the only ones trying the game with mouse and keyboard, were you using that all the time? How was the rest of the ui (inventory, other menues, etc.)? Were there any problems (as in game working against you) during combat, such as targeting?

cant wait for the release, for once the hype and the expectations seem to be equal.

If this turns out to be really good, too, I'll have no time to play MMOs between this and Skyrim!

Though I am looking forward to hearing about their MMO project as well. :)

My backlog of games is insane. Literally 40 games purchased the last three years that i've yet to complete.

Ill wait for this one to hit a Steam sale.

Looking forward to this one, sw:tor should keep me happy until this is released in February, then April for TSW then wait for GW2, should be a good gaming year :)

The UI was very specifically built, with a ton of time and effort, to be as good a game as possible on the PC. It was mandated very early on to NOT be the usual late game port to PC for PC's sake.

I'm as excited for you guys to see the DLC as anything, the implementation and value, I hope, will change the industry or at least the genre in what players expect from DLC.

Given this game is going to debut the Amalur universe, and set up the world for Copernicus, the MMO, I couldn't be prouder of the team and what they accomplished.

FWIW our QA lab has been playing a run through, fast travel, every quest, no other game play, to see who can finish first. At last count it was nearly 200 hours and not over yet.

World and game are huge.