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pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

first off, i don't have an HDTV so i have no idea about how great the graphics can be, but it looks great just on a regular TV.

I am currently playing on easy mode just to see everything, then go back and play through on more difficult settings. With 3 characters (scout, warrior and mage) there should be a slight diffrence in each play through.

The storyline is fairly interesting but nothing too far from the ordinary for RPGs in general. The voiceovers are good.

Combat in easy mode is fairly simplistic, you start with a few combos and gain more as you level up (leveling up just kind of happens, not sure how the game decides when you do). The spells for the scout are fairly interesting, and i kind of want to start over so i can make a better point allotment.

2 gripes i have is 1, in combat combos sometimes get sluggish somewhat, i hit [] X [] and for some reason the game only registers [] [] (i play with the controller plugged in) which can be annoying if you are trying for a specific combo.

2, there is no warning about instant death areas, and several times i have died cause i didn't know whether a certain area is passable and fell off a cliff to my death (a minor annoyance considering how good the checkpoint save feature is in the game)

a side note, in a couple of places you can make your character jump and get stuck in a falling animation until you release the movement stick.

overall, if you are a fan of games like Dynasty Warriors or Onimusha i believe you will enjoy this game.

sorry if it's a bit unorganized, my first review

Not much for plot.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I enjoy RPG's and this game barely qualifies. The plot is really lacking. This game reminds me a lot of the arcade game Gauntlet. You walk through hacking what is in front of you... If the game didn't have a plot at all it would still be the same game. That being said, it does have some very nice graffix and I the game play proceeds pretty smoothly. If your looking for a game that challenges your mind as well as your ability to press buttons you may have to look elsewhere.

This tale's been told before.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 22 / 23
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The PSP launched in March 2005 with only a few games that really took advantage of its hardware or unique features. One of the few that did was Sony Online Entertainment's Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade. It was a game that had potential, and that potential has been brought to another Sony launch, that of the PlayStation 3. How does SOE's Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom fare in the next-gen, non-handheld environment? To say it bluntly, fair. Very fair.

The Dark Kingdom suffix refers to the storyline's location of Dureth, a land victimized by dark magic, a demented king, and his legions of soldiers attacking defenseless, innocent civilians. Luckily for Dureth a group of gifted soldiers known as the Dragon Shade are there to save the day. From here one picks from three different Dragon Shade combatants: the brutish warrior, the swift scout, or the mystical mage. This begins a 20-hour adventure, as one of those characters sets out to discover what's driven the dark king to his madness.

Untold Legends feels a whole lot like every other 3D dungeon-crawling hack-and-slash. For the most part combat consists of mashing different combinations of the X and Square buttons to perform direct or sweeping attacks that absolutely devastate a pack of enemies. It's repetitive but that's to be expected from the genre and design. It's hard to grow tired of destroying a legion of skeleton swordsmen, to be entirely truthful. In fact, it's only when combat is taken away from the player that the game starts to become frustrating. Between hacking and slashing creatures the player will often perform jumping and platforming puzzles as well as some that will have one's head spinning for a moment before it is discovered what will allow one to move on. These puzzles go a long way towards making the game a little more than just a hack-and-slash, but at its core, that's all it really is anyway.

Leveling up is always enjoyable in RPGs (or should be) and Untold Legends is no different. Defeating enemies earns the player experience points that allow the character to level up. When leveled up, the character's stats can be increased (health, mana, melee damage, defense, etc.) and new magic attacks can be learned or strengthened. It is all too generous that Untold Legends allows the player to power up one of the nine magic skills at every level up; at level 45 one will have every single skill maxed out. Still, it's quite fun to beef up the characters. The game allows one to customize a lot; for example, it is possible to focus on strengthening melee damage and health points to make an indestructible warrior or emphasize ranged magic attacks and mana points for mages.

Throughout the game the player will also absorb essence from fallen enemies and destroyed objects (similar to Devil May Cry). Yellow essences act as currency and allow the player to purchase new item enhancements as well as red essences (heals the character) or blue essences (restores mana). Red and blue orbs are also found on fallen enemies. The only problem with the essence system is that the purpose of yellow orbs is defeated when one has to purchase pricey red and blue ones from save checkpoints if health or mana dips too low.

It hasn't yet been said but Untold Legends plays and looks a lot like Peter Molyneux's Xbox blockbuster Fable. One could take that two different ways. The first is as a compliment, because Untold Legends plays like one of the best Xbox games ever created, and this reviewer's personal favorite hack-and-slash game. The second is as a big insult, because a next-generation video game is being compared to a last-generation one. The combat system, essence-collecting, level-up system, and general gameplay mechanics are all remarkably similar.

Sadly, the visuals aren't much better. Untold Legends has pretty environments, lots of particle effects, and an interesting art design but the animation is just terrible. The Havok engine is put to use here but only sparingly. The camera is the bane of the entire game; it very often gets snagged on trees, boxes, or anything protruding from a wall. This results in it spinning wildly and the player taking extra time to figure out which direction to continue battling. At the very least, the music is pretty darn good and fits the environments and storyline quite well. It's just too bad that the sound effects don't compliment this for a great audio score, because they're very dull and powerless.

Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom is a fun game. It is quite fun to play alone for 20 hours or online with three other friends (it's even free, and one can use the experience earned here in the single-player game). Hacking and slashing might be mindless but it doesn't feel too boring or old in Dark Kingdom. Still, a few problems like ho-hum effects and a bad camera keep it from being a truly great game. Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom is worthy of purchase for those PlayStation 3 owners looking for something to keep them busy until bigger titles come out next year, but that's all.

A lot of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are very good for this game, as well is the sound. This game is good fun especially when playing with 2+ people. You can play with 1 other person on the same system or more if you play online. I played this game by myself, with a friend, and online with 3 others. Playing alone can be tedious and tiresome. If I were to rate this game on solo alone, I would give it 2 stars. However, this game, (like many others), really shine in multiplayer mode.
My gripes for this game are really quite minor:
1-Each piece of armor does not have a unique graphic.
2-There are no new weapons that are obtainable...sure you can add orbs to your weapon to give it a different look...but that's not quite the same.
3-There are only 3 jobs to choose from...even Gauntlet, (from 20 years ago), had 4 choices.
If this is preview of the quality of PS3 games to come, we are in for a treat.

My Nephew Says It Is Great.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was a gift for my nephew, and he reported it A-0ne in all respects. I'm not a gamer, but I trust him to be honest. He is 15 and wouldn't be able to hide behind good manners if he didn't really like it.

Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like many other PS3 launches, this game is below par. Firstly, the CGI storyline portion of the game was minimal. It's really dissapointing and less rewarding when you finish off levels and expect to be rewarded with a cool cut scene but faced with below par graphics. I really think the makers of this game (I believe it was Sony) rushed it to be among the few launch title of the PS3.

Speaking of graphics, the camera angle of the game was terrible. It's annoying when you fall of certain areas of the game because the camera was not aligned properly. You have three characters to choose from but really they are all similiar. Furthermore, the different characters do not have their own story line. The game was just about hacking and slashing endlessly. The ending totally blew it for me. It left me with that unsatisfied feeling. While some might like it, I absolutely hated it. I won't say much to spoil things.

Not all are bad though. I did enjoy some of the spells.

In conclusion, save your money and give this a miss (if you read many other reviews, they do say the same thing). It's time these game developers realize that they play an important role in making good fun and enjoyable games using the engine these new generation consoles provide. I'm tired of wasting money on games like this. If you want a better RPG game, go for the Marvel Ultimate Legends..seriously. The storyline was better. The game experience was better too.

Here it goes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well considering I have just goten the game the day I wrote this I won't be going into too much detail.

First off lets start with the gameplay
Its basecly pressing 2 buttons the entire way through constantly. Yes HACK n SLASH your way through this game.
Now its EXTREMELY lame without online play. Even with online play it gets quite boring. The only problem with online play is if the connection drops say goodbye to the progress youve goten.
It happened to me and I couldn't figure out anyway to get back and play my same character online. ( I don't even think it works offline either! ) It just saves the hosts character so when you load it you load the hosts character which is really stupid. I see no point in playing online when theres no way your going to find people to stick on the entire way through the game. Maybe you can someone start from the point but ive tried it and so far no good. Unless you want to start over and be the host every level and hope people join so they can lose their progress too.

The only diversity I found of the three characters you play ( warrior, scout, mage) is the mage. Considering you get pretty cool ownage spells and it makes it SLIGHTLY less hack n slash melee.

Basecly your a frekin moron if you get this game without online play. And hopefully there is a way to start from your character on the online games without being a host but Im not sure yet.
Anyway I give this 4 stars just because its an easy game to pick up and play as it really involves 2 buttons.

Again

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Alright I wrote a review on it the first day I got it. Now that ive played it over a week its time to review it again.

Now the offline play to me feels lonesome and not fun without players. Then when you get online you find a farely small group of people on at anytime. This makes finding people really hard. Now the thing that sucks is its better to start a new story with people online so as you progress with them you can save your game for offline play ( and play any of the characters that were saved when you saved it ) or if you host it later. Now the big difficulty in this is you need a good friend to stay in the game with you. You find TONS of people who are sucha baby and leave just because they die a few times. So when people keep leaving your basecly playing alone throughout the game while people come and go. So guess what that means? it means if you don't have another character that played on it and saved on it for others to join and use to play with you then they have to start as lvl 1, making them die easier, not doing enough damage, and when more are playing the enemies get harder to kill. So basecly forget about playing with anyone in any mission lvls past the first 2 because it just makes it harder for you when there starting new.

Considering there is only 3 classes it gets boring VERY quick. As i said before the only diverse class ive found is the mage class and still agree with it. the other 2 is hack and slash and really lame. So give it about a week and your done with this game online and offline. I still recommend it as it is really entertaining at first and definetly recommend it if you have a good friend to play with so you know they wont be leaving and you can actually finish the game online.

Anyway its alright, im looking forward to the next one when theres more then 3 freekin classes.

Awful game of this type....look for others less expensive and better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: February 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is not a good way to start up the PS3 with a hack n' slash Badlurs Gate style game. The game looks and feels like a PS2 game and the game mechanics and playability are lackluster.

If you are new to this genre, look for the following games instead as they all will work on your PS3 and give you a little more enjoyment than what this game is worth. These games are each under [...]as compared to the robbery of [...].

Baldurs Gate PS2
Baldurs Gate II PS2
Champions of Norrath
Champions of Norrath Return to Arms

It is what it is

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Its a hack and slash game. The intermitant smattering of "old speak" comes off kind of cheesey. I enjoyed hitting things with a hammer for a couple of evenings. It was kind of nice to look at.

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