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King's Bounty: The Legend

"Fantasy knight saga blending strategy and RPG elements"

Publisher: Deep Silver
Developer: Ascaron Entertainment
Released: 13 Jan 2009
Genre Sport
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King’s Bounty: The Legend, a knight saga that blends role-playingadventure and battle strategy in a fantasy land, will be released nextyear by Ascaron Entertainment and Nobilis. Players must become heroesand travel in real-time with their army across a huge continent,completing missions such as leading revolutions, overthrowing eviltyrants, slaying dragons and taking part in strategic battles to stopthose with plans for world domination.

There are many uniqueaspects to the game. Armies can be completely customised to includeunits consisting of snakes, pirates and vampires, as well as the moretraditional humans and dwarves, leading to exciting and extraordinarybattles. Characters are able to start their own family by marrying azombie, or any other supernatural creature that takes their fancy,before gaining extra bonus points by fathering offspring.

Thegame is set on a giant continent made up of different kingdoms andrealms. Players travel with their armies across land, sea andunderground, journeying through forests and caves to get to castles,villages and a variety of other locations. As missions are completed,characters develop new skills and collect different equipment andweapons for more demanding quests. A range of puzzling, formidable andtotally unexpected challenges await, which will bring players face toface with Demons, Orcs, Fire Dragonflies and Devilfish.

       
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