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Kings Bounty: The Legend | 
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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $32.98
You Save: $7.01 (18%)
New (16) Used (2) from $25.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 896
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 27593
Model: 27593
UPC: 742725275935
EAN: 0742725275935
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Players can play in adventure and combat mode. | | • | 3 different classes to pick your character from. Each class alters his characteristics and future development. | | • | Real-Time control in the adventure mode and turn-based play in the combat mode |
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Product Description
In a fairy tale fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses, you are a hero. King's Bounty: The Legend is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements. Gameplay is divided into two major sections: adventure mode and battle mode. In adventure mode you control your character in real-time. You move through the adventure map seeking various treasures, fighting monsters and accomplishing quests. In battle mode you lead your troops in tactical turn-based combat. Battles take place on land or sea, in dungeons or castles or even in some items. You yourself don't participate in the combat, but can assist your troops by casting spells or summoning different creatures.
A rich role-playing system including 7 parameters and more than 30 skills and perks and a highly-developed system of tasks and relations More than 70 spells to use on the battle arena and in everyday life An alternative option for magic development are the Spirits of Rage to be summoned in combat More than 60 unique creatures with special abilities and skills ready to fight in your army Dozens of different battle arenas. Unique arenas for castle sieges Various traps and bonuses on battle arenas that can change the course of fight Unique system of live items acting of their own will and changing their essence Ability to start a family, find a wife and have children
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Old School RPG Greatness!!! October 19, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
King's Bounty is the best turn based strategy game since X-Com came out in 1993.
It works on XP and Vista 32-bit.
There may be problems with Vista 64-bit.
Concept:
King's bounty is a great mix of turn based strategy, adventure, and RPG elements. You explore a world and find items to increase your stats and gather troops for your army. If you encounter enemies, you battle them in turn based combat. You can also cast spells during the battle to heal your troops, increase their stats, weaken enemies, or alter the battleground.
Heroes
You can choose one of 3 Hero types (Warrior, Paladin, Mage) and customize them through a skill tree or equipping items. Your class, skills, stats and items affect the army that you control.
Warriors have more troops and weak magic skills. Paladins are balanced. Mages have the fewest troops but can cast the most powerful spells during the battles.
Attack - Increases the damage that your troops dish out.
Defense - Decreases the damage that your troops take.
Intellect - Increases the power of your spells.
Leadership - Increases the amount of troops you can have in a battle.
Gold - Allows you to buy new troops and items.
Runes - Allow you to buy skills on your skill tree.
Your Army
There are over 90 different types of creatures you can have in your army.
Tanks - knights, giants, dwarves...
Ranged - archers, elves, beholders...
Infantry - soldiers, snakes, spiders, pirates...
Spellcasting - priests, mages, inquisitors...
Special - werewolves, vampires, ghosts...
So, why is this game so great?
You're constantly being rewarded for playing. It seems like every 10 steps, you're getting gold, runes, new units, and leadership banners. New enemies constantly appear and change the strategy of the battles. The game never feels stale. You're always learning new spells and trying to exploit the enemies' weaknesses.
Just when you think you've got the game mastered, you gain access to new lands, new enemies, new spells, and new units.
There are tons of optional side quests, too. If you complete them, you get gold, experience, or special items. You may even make a new alliance which adds new troops to your army.
The box says rated T for Teens, but this game is fun for everyone. The descriptors say:
Drug Reference - I never saw one, although pirates talked about rum.
Language - I didn't see any harsh language.
Mild Fantasy Violence - knight swings sword, hits monster, and a 25 appears above the monster. There's no blood or impaling.
What could be better about this game?
The story is good, but the writing on some of the quests is sub-par. One of my friends had trouble playing it on Vista, but he got it working.
The game is about 40-90 hours long, depending on how you play. It's a must buy if you like turn based strategy games, old school RPG's, or want to kill time while you're waiting for Diablo III.
If you liked HOMM, you'll love this! September 27, 2008
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
First of all, I've only been playing the demo so far so my review is based on that experience. I've been playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 almost daily since it came out in 1999 and this is the first turn based strategy game I've played since then that measures up to the fun of HOMM 3 (including HOMM 4 & 5, neither of which I liked). There are more RPG elements in this game than in HOMM 3. You gather quests from various characters, complete the quests and gain experience. Combat is turn based and you can cast spells and use the Rage box, which calls various monsters to your aid for an attack during combat as long as you have enough Rage points. This is very cool with great graphics and can cause massive damage to your enemy, allowing you to turn the tide of battle if your enemy is stronger than you. Graphics are great and gameplay is very intuitive. My only complaint so far is the game has locked up my system a couple of times, but the problem may be on my end so who knows. I highly recommend this game and will be ordering it soon.
Fantastic Turn Based Strategy! October 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just recently discovered this genre on the PC. I really enjoy turn based rpg's on consoles so I thought I would give this type of game a shot. King's Bounty is everything you could want in this type of game. Great graphics that bring the game world to life, but still able to run on a mid level system, lots of customization, and many hours of turn based strategy. The only slight drawback was the story, but the gameplay more than makes up for it.
Great game, highly recommended October 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Turn based strategy at its best. Choose from one of 3 classes (warrior, paladin, mage) and embark in a great adventure with thousands of battle options. Form your army from different fantasy units, explore the world, save the princess (and marry her and have kids too if you want). Excellent game, highly recommended.
Just One More Turn...Again November 19, 2008
If you are a fan of short, but not too simple, role-playing games, this is a great choice. There's a lot of battle management, but it's doable, and difficulty can be set - I'm doing it on Normal, and it's challenging enough. The magic system is complex enough to allow a different play style between magic users and fighters. There are interesting choices that can be made to support evildoers or oppose them, to pick factions in local squabbles, and to conduct diplomacy and guard missions. I highly recommend this game as an easy to get into, hard to master, fun to play single player tactical/roleplaying masterpiece.
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