Kings Bounty: The Legend

by Atari

Product 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0012N2AB6
• Item Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: September 23, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,194 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Features include:

•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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

83 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old School RPG Greatness!!!, October 19, 2008

By 

Poisoned Blade (California) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Kings Bounty: The Legend (DVD-ROM)

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.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Turn-Based Fun, October 12, 2008

By 

A. Rockwell - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Kings Bounty: The Legend (DVD-ROM)

There are alot of nice extras in gameplay, role-playing elements and turn-based combat. You do move in real-time on world map, but it's done nicely. Graphics are real good, sound kind of repetitive. 3 character classes give it decent replay and plenty of side-quests to complete for experience points or special items to equip make it worth going through more than once. I had alot of fun with this, and enjoyed the hours of leveling up your hero and fleshing out the world map. As oppossed to another reviewer, I played mine on Vista the whole time and had no crashes or software troubles at all. Hope this helps.

29 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked HOMM, you'll love this!, September 27, 2008

By 

Jakester - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Kings Bounty: The Legend (DVD-ROM)

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.