With no access to Steam thanks to an offline mode balls-up and most of my boxed games in storage, my gaming options were minimal. Oh – it’s finally on sale at retail in the UK by the way, so you needn’t fret about the unreasonable Euro pricing for the download versions anymore.īelow is a slightly maudlin account of my final days with King's Bounty - it includes spoilers of a sort, not that I can believe anyone was really in this game for its cheerfully incoherent plot. If you wonder why I was quite so keen on this Vladivostok-developed RPG-strategy underdog, I’d much rather point you here, here and here than summarise myself again. Finally finishing King’s Bounty, my favourite game of 2008, but one that proved so long and so sadly short on its early hyper-enthusiasm in its later hours that I’d had to put it down long before its conclusion. Reading, walking, meeting exciting new people? Nah. The erection of kings on the throne and their further overthrow, the salvation of princess dragons trapped in the clutches and the search for pirate treasures, the taming of obstinate ancient artifacts and the next contenders for world domination are such stern everyday lives of the royal knight, whose role is assigned to the player.I’m amazed that it took me so long to realise how I should really be spending the three weeks I recently spent offline thanks to a feckless ISP. One hero (warrior, mage or paladin), and a whole army of faithful companions travels across a vast continent, representing several dozen connected locations. "Legend of the Knight" is a knightly saga, which is a fascinating fusion of role-playing adventure and intense tactical battles, reviving the glorious traditions of the legendary "King's Bounty". Hard disk space: 11 GB l 11.5 GB l 14.5 GB Video card: nVidia GeForce 6600 with 128 MB OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8
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