Your character cannot jump and so you’re rather funneled through the terrain until you find your next fight. In terms of the exploration, there’s a big world out there but one that is surprisingly linear for an RPG. There is no combat outside of those battles and foes will not engage you until you walk, or ride, into their territory. While exploration is done in third-person in a fairly standard RPG fantasy world, the battles take place viewed from above, giving you a tactical view of the battlefield. As with the original King’s Bounty, this means you are given a horse and a small army and sent off to handle the task however you see fit.Īlong the way you’ll need to complete quests in order to raise your leadership stats, in order to command larger armies, and funds with which to hire people, and creatures, to fight for you. You play as one of three characters, a warrior, a mage or a paladin each of whom have varying stats when it comes to combat and magic and you are charged by the Prince with a mission to rid the world of blighted creatures threatening to destroy the continent of Nostria in the world of Antara. King’s Bounty 2 mixes the tactical, turn-based battles of the original game with some third-person RPG-style exploration. Of course, we’re now a shocking 31 years on from the original game (and at least six console generations) and so this reviewer needs to put on his big boy pants and get on with it. King’s Bounty 2 therefore is my first time looking beyond the original game in the series. I never felt that the original needed anything added. I’ve never dabbled with King’s Bounty: The Legend or the spiritual successor to the original game, Heroes of Might and Magic. So, with that in mind I was nervous about this one. I’ve completed the game countless times, putting in hundreds of hours, and it is a better-than-perfect port. I still to this day have an old Vodafone 1615 that has the sole purpose of being my King’s Bounty handheld console. The one was a freeware port for Windows Mobile 6 by some random Russian kid. While the Amiga version (the version I played back in the day) was great, it wasn’t the one. That might sound like a hipster pick but it gets worse. King’s Bounty is my favourite game of all time. But before we move on, there’s something of an elephant in this particular room. Sometimes that works but sometimes you get Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5. Of course, when a developer and publisher decide to bring in the number for the sequel, that suggests that this is the true follow up. As is common with long-running video game franchises, despite this sequel being named number 2, there were a bunch of sequels in between, all spawning from 2008’s King’s Bounty: The Legend. Of course, this is a sequel to the original King’s Bounty, a 1990 tactical RPG that originated on the PC but did good business on the Amiga and Sega Megadrive. King’s Bounty 2 is a cross-over RPG/tactics game from Russian coders 1C Entertainment who have quite the softography of lesser-known titles behind them. The miniatures are virtual, rulesets/opponents are often handled by the AI! Touching history with digital Hex and chits.Augin PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / king's bounty / reboot / rpg / turn based strategy by Richie A computer based wargaming community for the appreciation of historical wargames.
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