"If you have a hard drive, for the love of god, please install," Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning lead designer Ian Frazier begged gamers. "If you're on 360, please install. You will have much, much smaller load screens. Please, please, for the love of all that's holy, install."

Speaking to the bugs found in the game's recently released demo, Frazier noted that it wasn't developer Big Huge Games at the helm of the promotional release. Citing an outsourced job on the demo based on three month old code, Frazier says that some of the more recent bug fixes made to the game were not added to the recently released demo. "So we're all nervous, like, the demo's really buggy," he said.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is just around the corner, with EA Partners publishing the 38 Studios Big Huge Games-developed RPG on February 7 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

Xbox 360 owners will get a chance to test drive the fantasy world in a demo scheduled to arrive on January 17. Shacknews has contacted EA to find out if a demo is also planned for the PC and PlayStation 3. While you wait, however, check out the game's modest PC system requirements after the break along with a new trailer detailing the game's "skills and crafting" system.

Read & Watch: PC specs and a new trailer »