King's Bounty - Readers Choice Strategy Game of the Year @ Voodoo Extreme

Voodoo Extreme is doing their usual year-end series of reader's polls, and in the poll for strategy game of the year, Katauri interactive's King's Bounty:The Legend, beat competitors like Sins of a Solar Empire, Spore and Civ IV:Colonization for the number one spot. King's Bounty is also in second place behind Fallout 3 in their GOTY poll.
For best RPG, VE readers chose Fallout 3, with Mass Effect coming in third.
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King's Bounty rocks. Am approaching the end playing on normal with a warrior, already thinking about replaying on hard with a paladin…maybe then try impossible with a mage…

Wow ! I'm impressed !

that's a surprise. I tried Colonization and its boring. Solar Sins I found boring too but I hear people who have the patience to play it have a good time.

It's good to see KB getting the props it deserves.

Originally Posted by coaster
King's Bounty rocks. Am approaching the end playing on normal with a warrior, already thinking about replaying on hard with a paladin…maybe then try impossible with a mage…

That was exactly the path I was going take but my wife started playing as a Paladin so I wanted to play a different character so went Mage on hard instead. I just finished Paladin on impossible last night.

Back to Warrior now, on impossible.

Great game.

Originally Posted by JDR13
It's good to see KB getting the props it deserves.

Agree. KB is a great game, thanks for turning me onto it, JDR13.

However, I feel it tilts more towards the "RPG" realm than straight strategy. Sure, it has similarities to HOMM in its turn-based combat and in the decoupling of a hero from his army. But the end goal is not the acquisition of territory or defense of resources, but instead the completion of a story with quests, objectives, and character development.

KB is a "macro level" RPG if you ask me.