King's Bounty: The Legend
King's Bounty: The Legend is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements.
King's Bounty: The Legend is a rpg, strategy and turn-based strategy game
developed and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on May 01st 2009 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 10 languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Hungarian and Polish.
It has received 3,232 reviews of which 2,936 were positive and 296 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows® XP/Vista™ 32-bit
- Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or Athlon 64 +3200 recommended)
- Memory: 1 GB RAM under XP and 2 GB RAM under Vista (2GB recommended)
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB or ATI Radeon X800 256MB or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 512MB or ATI Radeon X1900 512MB or better recommended)
- Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
- Hard Drive: 5.5 GB
- DirectX®: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher
- Input Devices: OS-supported keyboard and mouse
MacOS
- OS: Mac OSX 10.6 or higher
- Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
- Memory: 1 GB
- Hard Disk Space: 2.54 GB
- Video Card: ATI or NVIDIA video card with at least 256Mb VRAM
- Additional:15" or larger display is recommended
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As a native russian speaker, this game has a lot better feel in russian language, than it has in english (and I would usually vomit, rather than admit anything good about russian culture, because how I grew to despise it) Anyway, I think many would agree that this is a legendary game nonetheless. Perhaps a tedious slog, perhaps repetitive, yes, you might not have the patience to finish it, espesially on the impossible difficulty, but the game's general feel and atmosphere is something that just settles in your heart deeply as a fairy tale, maybe naive, maybe stupid, maybe you are causing a mass genocide under the disguise of an epic beautiful tale, beautiful music and graphics. But I don't know, I might not want to play it often, but I think it is one of the greatest games of all times.
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I recently went back to play this game after not playing since it first came out. Considering it is now a 16 year old game, it still holds up. The battles are fun. The looting is random for each new game. I'm currently playing on hard and it is just about the right balance of difficulty (and not too easy). The only bad thing is that it does get a bit grindy. I figured it takes about 20-30 battles per level. I'm at level 18, of the max 30, which means I fought around 500 battles and I'm only about half way through. Overall tons of fun.
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I absolutely LOVE this game. The original King's Bounty from the dawn of the video game era was what inspired the Heroes of Might and Magic series, another favourite title. This "contemporary" (although it is almost 20 years old at this point) take on the KB formula is brilliantly done. The art style, music, animation, is absolutely gorgeous for a game that old. The story is okay, even though a bit of a generic high fantasy, but this game is captivating with it's nuanced strategic gameplay. It is a first installment of a series, KB: Crossworlds (or Armored Princess) being the next one, building on all what was good in the Legend. But I would not recommend skipping it, as it has some unique mechanics of it's own. Thoroughly enjoyable experience even almost 20 years later. The only thing you might want to get is a widescreen fix, as it doesn't support it.
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I first played this game when I was 9 or 10. Found it being sold in a random supermarket and picked it up, I remember begging my mom to let me get it. It was my first experience with RPGs, and turn-based combat. This game is still amazing to me! The story, the characters, the MUSIC--GOD, the soundtrack is BEAUTIFUL. Lind Erebros is so, SO underrated for this. It might be one of my favorite games ever.
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My modest disappointment with King's Bounty II caused me to abruptly stop playing it and begin a replay of all the previous reboots of the original 1990 game; King's Bounty: The Legend from 2008 was the first of four full titles and two expansion packs in a series that basically stayed between good and great for the entire run. My personal bias is that I always found the Heroes of Might & Magic series to be, like, FINE, but as a lifelong CRPG fanatic I find "you are a single person with an army" much more appealing than "you are an unseen godlike figure managing a kingdom and heroes and armies." The compelling gameplay loop of both kinds of game is similar, though; amassing comical numbers of fantasy troops and slowly defeating enemy armies across dozens of maps. In King's Bounty: The Legend, the framing devices for the plot progression sees your hero thrust into a series of dramatic invasions, kidnappings, double-crosses, and exorcisms, as your character's power also grows (though that power is ultimately only in service of managing your army). The battle screens will be familiar to just about anybody who has played any kind of strategy game surely; CRPG fans might recognize Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous almost certainly lifting its crusade mode directly from either this or Heroes of Might & Magic (or both?), which is perhaps part of why I loved that part of the game while some CRPG fanatics could not stand it. But yes, the tactical combat is one of those "easy to learn, difficult to master" kind of ordeals; after a few hours you will probably feel like you have a good idea of how to win fights, but the juxtaposition of straightforward army tactics to the "Spirits of Rage" mechanics and the spellbook (with each of the three character classes excelling with one of those three methods of fighting) lead to a great deal of potential tactics, even if I imagine the real pros only have a very small range of troops and spells and such that they use to beat the game effortlessly. BUT the cool thing is how fun it is to experiment with different army compositions and spells and even rage spirits; this playthrough is the first time I remember really focusing on creating obstacles on the battlefield, and it was amazing how well it worked to stop enemy melee troops from getting to me for three or four rounds, by which point the battle was almost over from my archers and spells. Anyway, just play the game already; if you ignore the original game, King's Bounty: The Legend is probably second-best title after King's Bounty: Crossworlds, and is a great place to start playing King's Bounty since all the major elements of the game past and future are present here, and if you enjoy playing this you will probably enjoy all the rest, and if you do not enjoy it I have no idea what might appeal to you about any of the others.
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Online players
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Developer
Fulqrum Publishing
Publisher
Fulqrum Publishing
Release
01 May 2009
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