Metareview - Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom

The only game I got my PS3 is RFOM. It's the only game that good for the PS3.

Wow another killer app for the PS3, I cant wait to drop my 600$ on this system.

How could you possibly get more generic than Everquest?

And yet 1up.com gave the PS3 the highest rated launch of any console, is there really anything worth playing save for resistance?

I actually played legends on PSP when it came out and it was a blast during psychology with 3 other friends in on the wifi action, but the gameplay only held up for about a week and then we never played again.

Really to summarize the PSP version it was a basic hack slash spell level experience,however the most stand out exceptional part of the game had to be the RIDICULOUS LOAD TIMES!

While I want a ps3, I dont think I'd buy any games right now. I was a total PS2 fan last gen, but resistance seems really unimpressive when I've been playing gears for past month straight (gave in and got a 360... for good measure from looks of things)

Only thing worthy about ps3 right now is blu-ray player, which is what I want it for right now, then later when the good stuff comes out I'll buy the games.

This is the one game that could have made me buy a PS3. Too bad it's a subpar PS2 game. Way to go Sony!!! Then again, after the PS2 launch line up, no one should really be surprised. Summoner and NHL 2001 were the only good games. Smuggler's Run was ok, but not great. But hell, this time around, looks like they only managed 1 decent game, and I really don't feel it's a system seller, at least not with Gears, FEAR and Call of Duty 3 all recently releasing on the 360.

@Kamlaot, EverQuest's lore might not be as richly detailed as LOTR and the realms of D&D (or even Warcraft), but it's been around for almost eight years and has more recognizable characters, races, and kingdoms than Untold Legends. UL is a throwaway fantasy setting that should have been scrapped in favor of Norrath, Vah Shir berserkers, and Firiona Vie.

I have this game and I've got to admit I've been playing it more than any other title on any other platform.

The reviews are right that there are major camera issues as well as the lasck of loot, but what none of them mention is how deep the combat is, there are a lot of situational combos you can use. You really feel like you've got the tools to not get hit at all if you can play well enough, its not a button masher.

I guess I can really only speak for the mage class cause that all I've played so far but I would certainly give this title at least a 75.

I quite enjoy it, and its certainly better than Rayman Raving Rabbids...how that game didnt get a 50 is beyond me.

Shagi, do you think it's better than BG: Dark Alliance or Champions of Norrath? Just wondering.

Screw Sony, and screw MS too. If you really want to have RPG fun this holiday season, buy a slim PS2 for $130 and some cheap copies of the Dark Alliance and Norrath games.

Snowblind FTW!

Hokay, this is from the mouth of a former SOE employee who worked on this game:

First, the game had 8-9 months dev time. That's *it*. *You* go ahead and make a PS3 game with that little time and less than half the budget.

Second, the game is totally unoptimized and the code is horrific. This is because there was no time to make the game properly. Refer to point #1 if you don't get it.

Third, everyone who worked on it was aware that it sucks royally. It exists only to pad the ps3 launch numbers out and was never intended to make a profit. The fact that it scored above a 60 is surprising, but rest assured that only 2 weeks before it went gold, it would have had a worse rating.

Finally, Shagi, the camera and loot issues were left in the game because there were *FAR* worse issues still left to fix! Please think of how hard the coding team worked on that game for 8 months to get it out the door before you rag on it.

And yet, it still sucks :-/

@11, and we should care for what reason? Is it our fault that the game had such a short dev time? Should we cut them some slack and buy a copy out of sympathy?

This industry is a business like any other and if the product is crap then the reviews will reflect that.

If Sony were using it to 'pad out' the launch numbers as you say then they are even stupider than I gave them credit for.

Shagi knows good video games, like I know how to speak Russian! I mean the poor Sony fanboy couldn't help but knock the Wii with a post to a crap PS3 game.

Seriously, $600 to play this s**t??!!? Get with the program Sony

Your comment is a load of CRAP. If Sony knew this was a BAD game, then why charge people? Sony should have given the game away with the console.

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11. Hokay, this is from the mouth of a former SOE employee who worked on this game:

First, the game had 8-9 months dev time. That's *it*. *You* go ahead and make a PS3 game with that little time and less than half the budget.

Second, the game is totally unoptimized and the code is horrific. This is because there was no time to make the game properly. Refer to point #1 if you don't get it.

Third, everyone who worked on it was aware that it sucks royally. It exists only to pad the ps3 launch numbers out and was never intended to make a profit. The fact that it scored above a 60 is surprising, but rest assured that only 2 weeks before it went gold, it would have had a worse rating.

Finally, Shagi, the camera and loot issues were left in the game because there were *FAR* worse issues still left to fix! Please think of how hard the coding team worked on that game for 8 months to get it out the door before you rag on it.

And yet, it still sucks :-/

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you mean "UnSold Legends??" har har har. thank 1up yours for that one.

Ok, my point originally was that yes it was crap and I told you *why* it was crap. Don't resort to any of the normal "this sucks" comments without knowing what really went on. If you're going to diss a game, know what to diss and who.

And Earl, get a clue. When would a company not charge for something it could charge for and make money on?