Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (Playstation 3, 2006)

I decided to buy this game because I love RPG (Role Playing Games). I don't know the background of the game so I didn't have much to compare it to. The last RPG game I played was an online game called Aveyond. Untold Stories is nothing like it. It’s more like a hack and slash game with RPG trimmings. You get to choose from 3 characters. I chose the scout because I'm a girl and she is a girl. She has these awesome blades that she uses to slash her way through the creatures in the game. Through-out the game you receive quest to complete to move from one level to the next. The game is nice because you get to solve problems and figure out puzzles so it’s not all slash and fight. During the fights you gain experience and many times the bad guys drop gear that you can pick up and use or sell for essence.

(RPG trimmings) Through the game there are chest that have either gear, upgrades or something called “lore”. Lore is something that adds to the back-story of what's been happening in the land of Dureth, which is a nice touch to the game. As you fight your way through the game you gain experience and can level up. With each level up you can buy new spells or upgrade your gear. You can also sell old equipment for essence points, essence is used as money in the game. You can also use essence to restore health and manna. Manna is used to cast spells. All in all the game is great and the fact that you can choose your difficulty level and different head characters make replay-ability possible. You can also play multi-player or with friends online.

(CON) The reason I’m not giving this game a great score is because the effects are pretty sad when you consider that this is for the PS3. Load time from one level to the next takes too long and at times your character gets stuck in environmental objects and walking on grass is just like walking on the sidewalk plus the camera can be really frustrating because it like it has a mind of its own. The visual effects are weird because can slow you down or make you giggle because of how ridiculous they seem. Last but now least there’s no cool effect using the sixaxis controller.