Uit de eerste reviews van de game Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom blijkt dat de titel wat tegenvalt. De IGN, GameSpot en Gamespy hebben namelijk niet al te opvallende ratings voor het spel over. Zo geeft de IGN een magere 65%, wordt er bij de Gamespot slechts een 60% gescoord en heeft de Gamespy er niet veel meer voor over. Er zouden vooral klachten zijn over de characters in de game, waarover Gamespy misschien nog wel het meest te klagen heeft. Geen ware topper dus voorlopig:
IGN (65/100) wants more PS3 and less PSP: “Apart from the repetitive combat system, there’s a ton of gameplay issues that you’d hope would’ve been fixed with the transition over to the PS3. Load times are surprisingly long when you’re accessing new levels. Rocks and boxes, as well as hills or background objects can cause your character to freeze in mid-jumping animation for at least five or six seconds. You’ll also run into a lot of camera problems during combat, where the camera will unexpectedly zoom in or out during a fight.”
GameSpot (60/100) thinks Dark Kingdom is ill-suited for looters: “Gear lust is one of the more prominent driving forces in dungeon crawlers, and it’s here that Dark Kingdom comes up short. Pieces of armor with different names and radically different effects look identical on your character, limiting the joy of equipping new gear and seeing how it looks on your increasingly badass adventurer. Your character will use the same basic weapon, as well as most of the same combo attacks, from beginning to end.”
GameSpy (60/100) hopes Sony is planning to make better use of the PS3’s storage capacity: “What surprises me the most about the whole pre-formed character shtick is how confining it seems for a next-gen console with the power of the PS3. Look at the character customization options in Oblivion and you might understand where I’m coming from with this. All that power and I only have three options to choose from?”
