King's Bounty - Review @ ComputerGames.ro

Is the new King’s Bounty a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 with real-time travel? As I was saying, only as a first impression. In King’s Bounty, you don’t own a castle and you can’t choose other heroes than the standard ones. You also don’t get any form of economical management, with your only resources being money, Leadership and ability runes.
The adventuring part offers flexibility in terms of meticulous exploring and riding around the map, but it’s also one of the reasons this game has no multiplayer whatsoever. It’s difficult to imagine a match between human opponents who travel in real-time simultaneously. But, on the other hand, no multiplayer = low replay value.
True, many elements are randomly generated at the beginning of each game, but after you go through the game with a second... maybe third class, that’s it. Also, there’s no map editor or scenarios, there’s no Quick Combat and the fast travel feature is almost nonexistent.
In many ways, King’s Bounty is a step forward regarding the combat aspect for turn-based games of the HoMM variety. But barring this, Katauri Interactive’s latest creation is nothing more than an RPG in which the only hero evolves in terms of basic genre principles that are already set in stone.

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