Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Preview

Xbox World 360 (via CVG) has shared a brief preview of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the promising fantasy RPG that’s being developed by something of a dream team of developers at 38 Studios. With Ken Rolston among them, the game is no doubt going to be compared and contrasted to Oblivion during its lifespan:

Having cherry-picked his favourite period from Salvatore’s insanely epic timeline, Rolston brought in action-figure, er, figurehead and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane to work with him on the look of the game; a game which hopes to combine the depth of an RPG with God of War-style melée combat.

So far, despite a screenshot dump, the one existing teaser of the game in action shows our bold, bald hero being winched into a torture device as a Marks & Spencer-ad-style female voice intones, “It is said that there is but one thing certain in this world; all that lives must die… for each life, a reckoning.”

Cue our hero’s transformation into a dazzling knight in armour, facing off against a Jabberwock-style dragon and… a load of skeletons with swords? Well, if it was good enough for Oblivion…