Kings Bounty is an excellent game

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For those who like games like master of magic and age of wonders there is a new game that was recently released that is called Kings Bounty.

I picked it up yesterday from direct download at the Atari website and the game is awesome. Graphics, gameplay, funfactor. Kind of reminds of when I first tried Sins.

Reviews below.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/939197.asp

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, it's been sucking away all my free time since it launched! Definitely enjoying it.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Witcher EE is better.

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Apple, meet orange. Orange, meet apple. :P

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

from what I read, neither seem that appealing to me >_>

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting lordkosc, reply 4
from what I read, neither seem that appealing to me

I agree. Except for the OP, the other posts are very thin & childish niaiseries.

I purchased it direct from Atari (because Amazon Canada has delayed its own release date), and I somewhat enjoy it.

I must admit that Mr Apple-and-Oranges was partially right (refering to another thread) : the visual quality is better than HM&M 5 -- but only in what concerns the landscape.

But ... one must consider that the HM&M 5 designers had to plan for the creation & random generation of map features on many scenarios & custom maps, whereas the KB designers had the advantage of concentrating on only one single map design. It's relatively easy, then, to spend time to fine-tune & refine the one & only map you are offering to players !

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

To bad it has starforce.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Servius, reply 6
To bad it has starforce.

The retail, full game is NOT protected by Starforce !

The demo was originally protected by SF, but it seems that it was somewhat disabled in its recent version. When I uninstalled the demo, a SF removal programme did not find any trace of SF on my system.

Believe me : I would not tolerate SF on my computer, in any form.

The full game I purchased from Atari direct-download is protected by a relatively weak version of SecuRom -- it's nothing as bad as the version which "protects" SPORE.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting lordkosc, reply 4
from what I read, neither seem that appealing to me

What'd you read? King's Bounty got universally great reviews, so the only thing I can think of is that it's just not your type of game. It's got a demo too, so you can give it a shot.

I've played through the original Witcher as well (didn't get a run through for EE yet), and it's also a pretty good RPG especially for the story, but the character development isn't as diverse as what I like. It's plenty deep, but not enough diversity compared to, say, the plethora of D&D character classes :)

 

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

I've seen no reviews for King's Bounty (anyone got links?) but I adored the original game from the early 90's. If this is a true successor it's going to be an automatic purchase.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

The original post contains a link to the gamerankings site for King's Bounty and there are two reviews linked there. Gamespot links to the same two ;)

There are more reviews for the Russian version, but they're basically the same, just translations and such mostly is my understanding.