Dragon Blogger Tries Kings Bounty – The Legend

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I have been a fan of the PC Game King’s Bounty ever since Commodore 64 and Amiga days.  This game is the precursor of all the Heroes of Might and Magic games that were released over the years.  I decided to pick up Kings Bounty – The Legend which was released recently.   There hasn’t been a new HoMM game in years so I was itching to play a game in the same style and genre.

Something to fill the time between now and when Fallout 3 releases on the 28th of October.

The game is a roleplaying strategy game, if you are unfamiliar with the series, you are in control of a hero and you lead armies of different types (creatures, soldiers).  Combat is set on a grid type battle system with “turns” being taken by your various unit types.  Each unit has hit points, and each unit combines to represent the number of units on a map.

Your hero does no fighting at all but provides his bonuses on your combat units and can cast 1 spell per turn.  The game involves collecting various artifacts to grant your army bigger and better bonuses, leveling up your hero, advancing your armies and building larger armies.

I have only been playing for a few hours and I like the game a lot so far, the small touches are wonderful like the walls coming to life in a necromancer’s lair, the spirits trying to break free from the walls.  It is nothing but artwork but beautiful to look at.

My computer though is a big sluggish through the game, and rotating the camera and battle scenes slow down periodically.  I have a Dual Core Athlon X2 4400+ processor, my video card is a bit old (256mb Geforce 7800GT), and even with 2GB of ram, it seems to stagger when I play the game.

-Dragon Blogger