Big Huge Games showed off a tiny bit of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and it looks pretty good already. "A Hero is reborn ... to hunt his killer ... and change the fate of Amalur" the trailer said. And from the looks of it, that is done with hacking, slashing, and lots and lots of spell casting.
You'll also be able to grab enemies from afar, do killing animations, and fight big bosses. Supposedly the game potentially offers up to 100 hours of gameplay, and having Ken Rolston (The Elder Scrolls), Todd McFarlane (Spawn) and R.A. Salvatore (a writer!) on board won't hurt either. I'm looking forward to this one!
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is scheduled for 2012.
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It does look really good. There is obviously a LOT of money involved. Salvatore has written some fantastic stuff mixed in with a ton of generic fantasy filler, so it's hard to say how good the story will be.
My god, this Battlefield 3 segment is going on forever.
I'm looking forward to this. Salvatore usually writes great action, and his character dynamics are usually great to read. I'd love to see a Icewind Dale trilogy of games, with an Assassin's Creed Damascus-looking Calimport.
Hopefully this goes well and leads to more authors working directly on games.
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3:22 PM on 06.06.2011 | 
My god, this Battlefield 3 segment is going on forever.
Hopefully this goes well and leads to more authors working directly on games.
That's all I need to crack my hype-o-meter!
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I'm super excited for this, looks amazing!