Kings Bounty: The Legend

75

While you wait for Heores VI

Obviously the inspiration here is Heores of Might and Magic. Game's core gameplay borrows heavily from its well known big brother. But this fact by no means suggest that King Bounty is a cheap copy. Infact production values, graphics and sound design is in most cases are at par with Heroes. The game is a turn based strategy game where we move on the map in turns and then do our actions. During the course of single player camping known as Adventure mode we play as a part of fantasy hero who from humble beginnings become more powerful by acquiring lots of forces and magical abilities. Gameplay is divided into two parts. Firstly is the campaign map , where we journey in search for quests and objectives. The other portion is the more exciting one, where our forces are represented on a chess like battlefield. We move in a turn based fashion and the one with better forces and tactics win this chess like game. Many factors involve which determine win or a defeat. Mastering all these mechanics are a lot of fun and give a huge longevity to this wonderful game.I must point out that due to the nature of genre game might only interest players which have a history of turn based games like Heroes or Civilization Series. But if you like the genre, you will not be disappointed by this wonderful game.

95

Like Heroes with a twist, not better nor worse, great game

This is a great game and a strategic one that is one of the most challenging I have played in recent times. I have played a lot of HoMM(Heroes of Might and Magic) and this game is very much alike. In short; "Keep your troops alive in fights, level up to be stronger and be able to use/train for troops" The major diffrences is that the map view is real time, and you can run past enemies some times to grab the treasure when they patrol and even lure them away to hunt you. Other difference is that you have no castle(there are castle though where you can visit and deposit troops) to build buildings and no restrictions what troops to use. Most troops you buy in 'dwellings' and this is radom generated when you start a new game.

Highly recommended game if you like HoMM and/or a challange. (Personally 128 Hours played according to Steam)

75

Kings Bounty: The Legend, wonderful graphics and sounds

Kings Bounty: The Legend has a wonderful graphic, good effects and really nice sounds, lots to explore, and a lot of options: you can both get equipment, quest objects, usable objects, have a wife and daugthers and sons (which will improve your stats like other objects), find 3 king crystals for improving 3 kind abilities (mind, might and agility) and you'll get a sort of pandora box that will add to you abilities and quests. So why only 75 as score if it is a wonderful game? For battles. The main part of the game is a bit repetetive: the magic you can cast are pretty much the same, most of them aren't worth to be casted due the poor effect on the enemy. Infact it is much better kill many troops you can before the starts the melee. This means you'll use similar magics and the gameplay will be always the same. I'll do a little paragon with Heroes of Might and Magic IV, which I consider the best HMM game (for the stories and graphics, in my opinion HMM V have both poor enough: too many polygons and poor textures, an uninteresting story) and KBTL. Mean while KBTL hardly beats HMM on graphics and on the customizable main character, it loses in strategic battles and lacks the economic management. In HMM you for example could hide your troops that you wanted preserve from a ranged attack, your heroes could fight in battles and have a great part there but more than anything the magic you casted were useful, you can change strategy from a race to another one, and they were all balanced. Last but not least HMM IV had great little stories, while KBTL let just you going around with just some main quest which don't engross you. If you want to see a beautiful graphics and a lot options, with some little nice quests you should buy it, you should buy it also if you don't want to spend too much, infact it is well worth to buy under 10 EU. I suggest you to look some videos about next chapters in this series because seemed King Bounty paid attention to these problems and tried to fix them.

70

Entertaining and reminiscent of HoMM series

For anyone that has already played a Heroes of Might and Magic game, they will definitely be familiar with King's Bounty. Overall, both a games are similar in that they are turn-based (in King's bounty, the exception is that moving around in the world does not require you to make a turn). You start off by choosing one of three Heroes: a warrior class, a wizard class or a paladin class. One is focused on combat, on magic or both. This adds a bit of diversity to the gameplay. In terms of graphics, they are bright and very pleasing to the eyes. The game loads quickly and I didn't have any problem there. Nevertheless, I did feel that the game was quite monotone. Although the world was large and the side quests were many, the premise was always the same: run here, run there, defeat this, defeat that. This game is fun at first, but to me it became boring after a while.

90

Great turn based game

Well, turn based game always had their own fans, that not needed a reason to play. this game has a very good graphic, good sound, and of course, turn based gameplay. As one of my favorite genre, i recommend this game for you who like this genre too. There's no more word for it except : play it.

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