"King" s Bounty: The Dark Side. "All information about the game

Game "King" s Bounty: The Dark Side "is the continuation of the series in the spirit of fairy-tale adventures in a fantasy world. This time the developers decided to change a little style, added new main characters and a whole cycle of innovations in the gameplay. Players met the project cautiously, and the reviews sounded ambiguous in his direction. Before the commencement of the passage, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the review, in order not to be upset in the future.

Plot

The authors in "King" s Bounty: The Dark Side "tear off Netan's new world before the user. On it there are certain disorders. The forces of light oppress the races of darkness in an uneven struggle. Elves attack and the settlements of the orcs, in order to equip them to their needs. Paladins declared a hunt for demons and exterminated them at every turn. Vampire hunters also began to actively hunt their worst enemies. Step by step, the race began to lose its long-lived territory. In this situation, the fierce warrior ork Bagyyr, the demon leader Neolin and the skillful magician vampire Daert are fighting to protect the forces of darkness.

Game process

Nothing dramatically new in the gameplaycontinued the saga of "King" s Bounty: The Dark Side "did not bring in. The developers took a successful concept from the original game and increased the variety.As for the story, the player will have to go through more than hundreds of tasks and explore 15 locations on a completely new continent.The battle system was based on turn-based fights with the use of spells and hiring of available types of troops.Every game has its own prehistory, with which it began the way to the salvation of its own people and all the forces of darkness.

Before this part in King's Bounty there was no divisionon the camps of good and evil, and this time the developers concentrated the whole story on this confrontation. The graphics are made in a corporate fairytale style with a lot of bright colors. The authors greatly enriched the arsenal of different types of fighters. Now there are: Vampiresa, Rider on the dragon, Traitor people, Dark Elves and many other creatures. Dialogues and interaction with the outside world also became more significant.

Other innovations

In the game "King" s Bounty: The Dark Side began to play a role in the formation of the detachment. Now it is impossible to put fighters of the light side along with the soldiers of darkness, since the morale of the army will be too low. The plot provides for a war with the adversaries over the territories. In places of the Vault, the user gets the opportunity to put the Departments. They will passively increase the military power of the hero, provide new spells, develop armor for the units and perform other tasks. As artifacts are used special relics of Netana. It's difficult to get them, since items greatly increase the parameters of attack, defense, magic damage and others.

The satellites of the centralcharacter, so that they are more useful. For example, Chernysh can make a teleport to an already known location for a thousand coins. A resource of prisoners of war appeared in the game "King's Bounty: The Dark Side." They can be turned into undead or demons, and used as servants in their Departments.

Estimations of publishing houses

Professional critics unanimously noted,that the passage of "King" s Bounty: The Dark Side "does not give new emotions.The reason for this is the monotony of the gameplay over the years." Russian developers managed to find in the original game an attractive concept at that time, but for more than five years to change it and All innovations are made at the micro level and add only certain elements to the overall picture.Many critics have called the project raw, underdeveloped and even compared to the work of the amateurs.

Some publishers noted that interestingThere are ideas, and non-linear quests often arouse interest. Also the idea of ​​playing for the forces of evil received attention, because in the game you can create any excesses. In general, the average score from critics is 69 out of 100. But the project will be warmly received by only true fans, as originality is absent here.