King's Bounty add-on in the works News

11 November, 2008

Russian developer Katauri is hard at work on an expansion to well-received PC tactical RPG King's Bounty: The Legend.

Dubbed Armored Princess, the add-on will centre around the titular female and her search for renowned knight and tutor Bill Gilbert. And she'll be accompanied on her travels by a tamed dragon, and a horse that has a chance to turn into Pegasus and fly. What a show off.

Additionally, there will be fast travel between continents, medals for achievements, companions for hire, a new Pangolin race, levelling to 50 and beyond - plus a new engine, skills, spells and bosses.

You'll need the original King's Bounty game to play, and there's no release date for Armored Princess as of yet.

King's Bounty: The Legend is a bit of a treasure, and a remake of the 1990 King's Bounty videogame regarded as a predecessor to the Heroes of Might & Magic series. As such, you'll spot many similarities, both in mechanics and in settings.

Subsequently, the game has caused enough of a stir to warrant our attention. You can expect our thoughts on King's Bounty: The Legend soon.

Retail copies of the game seem rather hard to track down, with Play the only local online shop mentioning the title at all, albeit as a February 2009 release.

The best place, then, to pick up King's Bounty: The Legend, seems to be on digital delivery sites such as GamersGate or Direct2Drive. Incidentally, the US and UK versions come with SecuROM protection.

Meanwhile, pop into our King's Bounty: The Legend gallery for an idea of what to expect.

There's plenty more information on the King's Bounty official website, too.

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MrChuckles

11/11/08 @ 11:30

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If you like any of the Heroes Of Might & Magic games, this one is much better.

It's no Master of Magic mind you (Then again, what is), and when you go to the Islands (The 4th or so map), boy does it get difficult, but for games in the current generation, it's a nice change.

Siberian_Khatru

11/11/08 @ 11:33

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IIRC Katauri are from Vladivostok, that's East Asia, not Europe.

Anyway, go Katauri!

hiddenranbir

11/11/08 @ 11:49

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Awesome!

But I want Space Rangers 3! :(

dingo75

11/11/08 @ 12:11

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It's out in Germany at least in shops.
Since it's multi-lingual you might want to check out amazon.de or something if you can't wait and don't want a digital download. :)

michaelius

11/11/08 @ 12:38

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Be glad that UK and US releases has only Securom.

Idiots from Cenega Poland put there Star Force so now I need to either wait till they swap it to half price series or import.

the_mtfr

11/11/08 @ 14:18

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Wow they really are from Vladivostok (Wikipedia, takes a little bit of deciphering the letters :P).

I wanna buy this game, sounds very good and looks good too especially the interface and 2D art. But does anyone know how its Securom works? I'm not buying it if it has on-line activation.

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mingster

11/11/08 @ 14:24

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It needs online activation yes.. and a serial number plus DVD in drive.
after you've done all that though you could get the Cracked exe and not need DVD or internet connection anymore.

mcwildcard

11/11/08 @ 14:57

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Ah wow, I LOVED Kings Bounty on the Megadrive!
If this is as good then it's a nailed on purchase.

Bertie [staff]

11/11/08 @ 14:58

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Oh yes silly me and my geography. Vladivostok is bloody right over there! I see that now. Russia's quite big actually - someone should say something.

the_mtfr

12/11/08 @ 22:09

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What the hell do the publishers think that I'm supposed to do if I take a holiday in some mountain cabin or whatever, and I discover there I can't activate the game cause I don't have internets??? I know this is not as draconic as other pieces of **** protections like the news raged on about recently, but it's still unbelievable the nerve on these publishers, making it more difficult for buyers than clicking twice on some torrents site to get the (arrr!) pirrrated one.

I might get it though cause I read a review on Game Banshee that makes it sound like a dream's dream for strategy geeks.

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