Product Description

Dark Kingdom marks the next gen debut of the Untold Legends series, with support for online play and downloadable content.

After serving the King loyally for years in foreign conflicts, an elite unit of knights return home to find it a changed place. Appalled by the discovery that dark magic has corrupted their kingdom and that the King now plans to use them against their own people, the knights devise a plan to assassinate the malevolent ruler. When the attempt on the King`s life is foiled, the would-be assassins barely escape into the ravaged lands below the King`s floating palace. On the run from an army they once served and tainted by the dark magic of the King`s sorcerers, the assassins must survive in a kingdom they no longer recognize. Vowing to avenge their fallen comrades, the heroes embark upon an epic journey to defeat the corrupt King by destroying the sources from which he draws his evil power.

• Next-Gen HD Graphics: Experience next-gen graphics in true high-definition formats up to 1080i. Watch as the fantasy unfolds through vibrant environments, beautifully rendered characters, highly-detailed creatures, and intense battles filled with engaging combat, magical spells and brilliant SFX.
• All-new RPG Action Combat: Unique physics-based game mechanics will give the heroes of Dark Kingdom the ability to tear through environments and defeat enemies in all new ways. Knock enemies against walls and watch them bounce to the ground. Smash through crates, pillars, and boxes to clear a way through the environment. Or grab NPCs and use them as living, unwilling weapons.
• Epic storyline: Immerse yourself in an intriguing storyline, written with the help of Keith Baker, as you seek to end an evil king`s reign of oppression that he has bestowed upon your fellow citizens all told through in-game dialog and scripted cut sequences.
• Engaging combat:

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8126 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-05-04
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description
Untold Legends Dark Kingdom will set the standard for next-gen action-RPG's by delivering an immersive fantasy experience through its high-definition graphics, dramatic storyline, and action-packed battles filled with heart-pounding combat, magical spells and brilliant visual effects. In addition, Dark Kingdom will deliver in-depth character progression, online multiplayer gameplay and online game services through PlayStation 3 online network. Choose one of three unique characters to guide on a perilous journey of impossible odds, as you immerse yourself in a fantastic world of beauty and terror, where only you can end the long standing oppression of a tyrannical king. Collect and equip powerful weapons, unique armour, and special items as you slay the hordes of monsters which inhabit the magical worlds from which they come.

Next-Gen HD Graphics: Experience next-gen graphics in true high-definition formats. Watch as the fantasy unfolds through vibrant environments, beautifully rendered characters, highly-detailed creatures, and intense battles filled with engaging combat, magical spells and brilliant special effects.

Engaging Real-time Physics: Unique physics-based game mechanics will give the heroes of Dark Kingdom the ability to tear through environments and defeat enemies in exciting ways. Knock enemies against walls and watch them tumble to the ground. Smash through crates, pillars and rocks to clear a way through the environment. Or grab creatures and use them as living, unwilling weapons.

Epic Storyline: Immerse yourself in an intriguing storyline, as you seek to end an evil king's reign of oppression that he has forced upon your fellow citizens all told through in-game dialog and cut sequences.

Visceral Action RPG Combat: Take complete control of every battle by using chained melee attacks, or an array of spells and special abilities acquired along your journey.

In-depth Character Progression: Choose from three unique heroes and unlock new spells and abilities as you adventure! Collect and equip unique armour sets, powerful weapons and other special items that will aid your hero on their perilous journey!

Co-op and Internet Modes: Adventure alone or with your friends with a full range of multiplayer support.

Customer Reviews

Dull, repetitive and boring!!
This is one of the most uninteresting, uninspiring and quite frankly most boring game RPG I have played in a long long time! After comleting Oblivion I decided I needed more to quench my RPG thirst, but there is nothing about this game that makes me come back for more. non stop battering buttons, 3 very generic characters to choose from, yep you guessed it...mage, warrior and rogue, and each characted is stuck with the same weapon throughout! There is virtually no way of cutstomising your character bar adding some gems to your weapon and changing armour which all looks the same with slightly different powers!

This has nothing on Diablo, Baldurs gate, Divine Divinity or any other game of this type.

I've sold my game after a week of playing...it really is tha boring.

Great Backup!
About 4 months ago I recieved a Playstation 3 and invited my friend over about a week later to sleep round. We rented Oblivion (thinking we were gonna play that) and then as a "back up" we rented this game. We decided to play the "back up" first so we could play Oblivion later on in the night.

Rather strangely we bacame addicted to this game after about 5 minutes. My friend had played most of these sort of games so we put it on the hardest difficulty. The levels are interesting and the enemies are very good.

A great thing about it was the special moves you could unlock by levelling up. Hovever the enemy A.I was not as good as it could be, the graphics could have been ALOT better and it is always slightly too easy (even for someone who never really plays these types of games like me). Strangely (despite finding it so good) I was never tempted to buy it. But still, it was a great laugh!

Thoroughly mindless button-mashing
This is a true blue sequel to the PSP predecessors and unfortunately fails to take advantage of the much more powerful PS3 platform other than the somewhat improved graphics. For a PSP RPG it was good, on the PS3 it's weak, repetitive and vacuous.

The loot system is poor. I've seen it remarked that the items dropped my monsters are inferior to those your character can enchant/buy. And this is certainly true for at least 2 of the classes. Weapons are upgradeable with gems (with far too few slots) and change appearance but new weapons can't be picked up and equipped.

The "physics based combat" touted on the box is a over-hyped way of saying that every spell and combo attack causes the monsters to be propelled backwards and knocked down. The spell system is unbalanced with a progression of mediocre abilities and one final overpowered spell at the end of each class's line. There's no progression "tree" as such, just a linear set of spells available at set levels and a new combo each level at the beginning, of which you'll generally find yourself only using 2 or 3 and aside from cosmetic differences the 3 classes play very much the same way.

The story is very silly, not well acted and dotted with a few cut scenes either using the in-game graphics system or poorly animated cartoony video that tells you the designers were still working as if limited by the PSP's screen and performance. Puzzles, where puzzles exist, are pointed out to you with no subtlety.

It is sort of fun if you're in a mood to just mash buttons and obliterate monsters without having to think. If you want a challenge or any kind of intellectual stimulation, look elsewhere.