Become a hero in a fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses. Explore the land, command armies and accomplish quests for your king to reap great rewards... Or suffer devastating defeats.
The gameplay is divided into two major sections: adventure mode and tactics mode. While playing in adventure mode you control your hero in real-time, seeking various treasures, fighting monsters and accomplishing quests tasked to you by the local stewards. Once in tactics mode you assume the role of a war chief, leading your troops in tactical turn-based combat.
Battles take place on land or sea, in dungeons or castles or even in certain items! The hero himself doesn't participate in the combat, but can assist his troops by casting spells or summoning different creatures.
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Drug Reference, Language, Mild Fantasy Violence, Violence. PEGI Rating: 12+ with Violence.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 2,6 GHz Processor, 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 6600 with 128 MB or ATI equivalent, Mouse, Keyboard.
Average customer rating 4.5 out of 5.0
Cheesetastic Tactical Fantasy Warfare
(by
DoraAreGames)
King's Bounty: The Legend was not a game I expected to enjoy because it's so different from what I was expecting. I have an appreciation for turn based games, mainly because I am slow and boring, but the first few times I tried King's Bounty's battle system I was left feeling put off. Easily the biggest annoyance comes in learning your limits; it's far too easy for enemies to absolutely... full review decimate your forces, and you'll spend a lot of time running back to places to buy more. The game is extremely unforgiving if you enter battle unprepared with the wrong types of forces, and developing the habit to save before every encounter should be a top priority. It's true that a little cunning will get you far, but battles can be won or lost in a single turn, and that can be hard to swallow.
But over time, you get the hang of things. You know what spells work best in any situation, you learn how to work the battlefield, and before long, you're running towards fights rather than away. Not only is there a tremendous variety of creatures to be discovered and destroyed, but there's also a big, satisfying expanse of treasure to find and upgrade. (By fighting inside the item, of course. How else?) Oh, and if you want, you can marry a frog princess. Or a zombie queen. Or... well, you'll see.
In fact, if you can handle the combat, really the only other issue with King's Bounty is its dialogue, which tends to be either painfully dull or unintentionally hysterical, and is delivered by characters that are weird and bland at best. It feels like it was lifted straight out of a twelve-year-old kid's Dungeon and Dragons fanfiction, and if you can handle your stalwart hero of the land proclaiming "OK I am ready!!" before he plunges into battle with a necromancer lord, or even crack a smile at it, you'll do just fine.
For your patience, you're granted a massive world teeming with interesting creatures, and quests that generally revolve around slaying them. The visuals are big, bright, and cartoonishly enjoyable, and it's impossible to not enjoy trampling around the overworld with your big, stampy-hoof'ed horse, running down brigands and chasing shiny treasure. It definitely is a game that takes a while to become adept at, but once you do, you'll find it's got a lot of charm and potential. You'll never call the characters memorable with a straight face, and it's never going to inspire any poetry, but King's Bounty: The Legend is tremendously fun and addictive, as long as you don't try to take it seriously.
Excellent game. One could say this is a HoMaM clone, but this game is more than that. Genetically enhanced clone, if you will. Castle management is simplified and you have only one hero, so the world map is real-time, but combat is turn-based. You have to take care when upgrading your hero though, and monsters on the world map do not respawn, so you cannot farm experience and because... full review of that, the game can be quite difficult, but definitely worth the money.
Downloadable soundtrack would be great but you can copy it from the game's directory so no harm done :)
one of the classic, done only 2 years ago
(by
Mothra)
i agree with above review, kings bounty is a marvel to behold. if all "sequels" or "reimaginations" would be done with that attention to detail and so much love. This game oozes style, fun, cheekiness and has some of the most insane and twisted missions / plot I came across. And once played you can start it up anytime and feel right at home so I completed my... full review first playthrough over months with big pauses. Thank you GOG for getting this :)
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