Microsoft Store has just leaked a remaster of the 2012 action RPG game, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Titled Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, this remaster will release – according to the MS Store listing – on August 11th, 2020.
Unfortunately, the store has not detailed the graphical improvements of this remaster. However, you can find below its first leaked in-game screenshots. These screenshots should give you at least an idea of the visual improvements you can expect from it.
Microsoft’s store has also leaked the key features of Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. From what we can see, this remaster will feature all of the game’s DLCs.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Key Features
- Build the ideal character for the most intense combat, choosing from a countless combinations of skills, abilities, weapons and pieces of armor.
- The revolutionary Destiny system allows you to continuously evolve your character class to your style of play.
- Seamlessly integrate magical and melee attacks as you take on scores of enemies in grand fight sequences and finish them off with brutal Fateshift kills.
- Extend your experience in Amalur with all DLC from the original release; from Teeth of Naros to Legend of Dead Kel and more!
- Hundreds of hours of RPG play await! Travel from the vibrant city of Rathir, to the vast region of Dalentarth, and the grim dungeons of the Brigand Hall Caverns as you uncover the secrets of Amalur!
- Explore deep levels of lore in a universe steeped in 10,000 years of fiction created by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore.
- Rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war. Control the keys to immortality as the first warrior ever to be resurrected from the grips of death.
- Explore a sprawling game world hailed as having “more content than any single-player game deserves!”
- Enjoy countless side quests rich in political intrigue, romance, sinister magic, and even whimsy – all central to the primary mission.
- Improved graphical fidelity in Re-Reckoning.
Enjoy!
Kudos to WalkingCat for spotting it.
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visuals not much of improvement looks almost identical.
This is exactly what I was thinking as well. Man I was pretty juiced up when I read the headline and thought they totally re did the game at first or it was a remaster like Saints Row The Third type quality.
Will see hey, I almost think those screen have to be placeholders from the original game(can’t be right). Anyways I was a fan of the original game and it really was a shame the company went down like they did and they could not continue working on it. THQ Nordic is pretty solid so I have hopes it will be good and I want to believe.
yeah this feels similar to other THQ remasters just small upgrade nothing much.. its done by same team as darksiders remasters, red faction guerrilla remaster.. so don’t expect much from this. i hope they make sequel to this game.
Damn it… I was hoping for a little extra, I will still wait and see before I get it cause you never know.
Yeah that is what I have been waiting for as well a real sequel, let’s hope it does well. Apparently they have Titan Quest 2 in the works and many others so let’s hope We will get all those proper sequels and they will be quality.
SR3 Remaster has bad quality.
PC port is trash just like the OG.
On consoles is not even better.
Just like the recent Mafia Remastered collection.
Quite the underrated game
Tried to play it so many times. It puts me to sleep.
Just focus on the main story and the guild or faction quests. If you do all the mmo like quests in each zone, you will get burnt out. I did every single quest in each zone when I played it and at the end, I just wanted the game to be over.
I liked the mage class. You had a staff that actually did something, not just for stats, use it to attack. I started the game a few times but never got too far. Maybe I’ll finish it this time
Been meaning to play this one for almost a year since I found out it’s an old RPG gem that I didn’t know about, and looking by the images, guess I should just play the original since the graphics seem more or less similar.
I put it in my Steam wishlist too after learning that it’s a great RPG, but I haven’t bought it yet because the 15-20 hour gametime doesn’t tickle me.
Not a 15-20 hour game. If you enjoy the fantasy setting you can get 40+ out of it. Easy. DLC are both kinda weak though.
Almost all the steam reviews have 15-20 hours, and It’s usually a solid indicator of game length.
Play on hard. You also have several styles of play to engage with over several playthroughs. If that isn’t part of the game you’re trying out you’re simply missing out. For $20? It’s worth the price. It’s a 20 hour game skipping most all side content on easy.
Same. I’ll wait for this to come out because with all DLCs included it might end up the cheapest version. EDIT: Except where will it release? Only “Microsoft store”? No buy. I’m not one of the people who insist on Steam. But MS store, no. They literally tried to ruin PC gaming more than once already.
game looks like 2010
Microsoft store, no thanks.
Remasters duh, only thing that’s acceptable is a Remake or a Remaster and existing owners get it free. But i personally don’t think this game was this great to get a Remaster anyway. I am hyped for Mafia remake and Gothic remake though. I hope they wont ruin them, some of my favorite games. And let’s Remake Mass Effect 1 or whole series with a proper ending this time, I would gladly go to 3-rd adventure with Shepard.Aslo Witcher 1 deserves to get Remake and it would sell like hot cakes on cold winter night.
the existing owners cant get it for free cause it’s a different publisher.
Then they should do way more than just updating textures.
Agreed, but none of us have played the remaster yet, so we have no clue of ours DNA. We shall see in the day.
worth playing. This game is like oblivion in terms of content and gameplay mechanics. Its not open world but it has large maps each one is different it has multiple biomes. It has a ton of quests to do for npcs and dungeons, it has books to read, stealth and bookshelfs are like oblivion, etc etc. Its made by many of the same people i think. The combat and camera is like god of war, its much more interesting than modern games, much better than anything bethesda and bioware has made in a long time, worth playing, play it if you havent.
achievements https://www.exophase.com/game/kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning-xbox/achievements/
If this is held to the dogs**t MS dumpster exclusively, they may as well just hold its second eulogy right now.
Haha, i really hope not. Ut it will not Be, people hav been getting their sources from console focused websites. The game is coming to PC, I just hope it hits GOG like their other games.
+1 on the GoG request. I’d scoop it up in a heartbeat.
Kingdoms of Amalur Re-release.
All i want is Lost Oddysey,Blue Dragon HD remaster. I’m sure Sakaguchi still have the source code…oh,and make it XboxSex and PC exclusives,no PS4…
Microsoft own those IP’s so very doubtful for a Sony release, and they renewed the LO Trademark/IP in Dec 2018.
i gotta be honest.. i rather a new Kingdom of Amalur than a remaster one. disappointed.
Looks ok to me not sure what everyone is complaining about.
No Steam release for the remaster?
Never understood why everybody loves this game.
When I tried it, unlike what the poster below says, I thought it was extremely overrated, linear, and it felt like a very cheap dumbed-down mmorpg from the mid-2000s. It feels constantly like the game takes your hand and controls what you do, and it baffles me that somebody in the comments compared it to Oblivion. (Oblivion is actually my least favorite Elder Scrolls, and it’s still miles better than this.)
I guess it’s good for very young gamers who are okay with simple and repetitive gameplay.
Anybody wanting a deep RPG experience should skip it.
im with you on this, it was bland game with nice combat i guess. Main quest was kinda Ok, but all side quest are hellish fetches fests.
It’s just a good game for what they said we were going to get. For the budget and the crap they had to deal with during development? Not bad.
Quality of a game isn’t decided by its peers outright. Budget, developmental problems, games doing similar things. It came out right after Skyrim, no wonder it did poorly.
But hey, I imagine you cream over Skyrim (seeing as how Oblivion is your least favorite) when practically everyone turns into a sneaky archer because the game doesn’t have any God damn classes. Genius role playing design, right?
No. Actually, I even forgot why I mentioned these games. In fact, I didn’t enjoy Skyrim much, it felt too easy. My favorite RPGs are either old 2D ones like Fallout, Arcanum and Baldur’s Gate, or FPS-RPG like Deus Ex, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, etc. All of these games have one thing in common : there are several ways to go a certain path or accomplish quests. I didn’t feel that in Skyrim or Oblivion.
All of which I’ve also played and enjoyed thouroughly. Doesn’t make the rest bad.
Because Elder Scrolls is Schitt and this game is basically a MMO/RPG with God Of War Combat, never been done before. IT’s an RPG to it’s fullest with great combat. When i say God Of War combat i’m talking the original God of war not that GHAY-A$$ God Of War 4 BullSCHITT!
Underrated game. But, THQ makes bad remasters. If this is the step they want to take to put feelers out for a sequel? This wasn’t it. I’ll support it if it’s reasonably priced, but I’m disappointed by those images.
NO they don’t… Its the same studio that made The Darksiders 1 remaster and they did ia great Job. THQ is not a studio it is a Publisher, therefor you need to pay attention to what studio is making what.
It was a generic remaster and didn’t fix any prior issues. DS being a game you enjoy speaks volumes about your tastes, enough I couldn’t begin to care about your opinion. Thanks for pointing out that they’re a publisher. None of us knew that. Really. None of us. We definitely didn’t assume they’re indirectly responsible for the quality of their products that they publish and have a heavy hand on what gets done in the development of their titles. Thanks. Appreciate it.
Hey Puzzy, at what point did I say I enjoyed anything and what does my taste have to do with anything? The company did Darksiders 1 remaster and it was good. They also did Red Faction Guerrilla and that was good too. You just want to be a know it all/argumentative Puzzy. You went on this Rant as if I was directly speaking to you or I offended you just with my presence. Do me a favor man, go Fuq your mother and don’t ever address me again. I’m in no mood to converse with sodomites.
“DS being a game you enjoy speaks volumes about your tastes” <----only a pillow biter speaks like this.
THQ Nordic in general is a trash publisher and most likely wind up taking EA’s road in the long term.
Agreed. Already swore off EA products years ago. I’m hoping it’s a decent remaster, the game itself is worth as it’s fate was simply not just. It deserved better, but it came out right after Skyrim erupted. A lot of flak got tossed around to the wrong people. Curt Schilling being one.
I’m sure I’ll be able to find a used copy a few weeks after launch. I can live with that.
been playing through this recently in backwards compatibility on xbox one x…. hope the upgrades worth it ill deff get it if its polished up nicely !! hoping for a sequel