King's Bounty: Warriors of the North

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6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 115 Ratings

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  1. blubberguts
    Oct 30, 2012
    6
    Disappointing. Loved the original Kings Bounty and the sequels, it was what Heroes of Might and Magic should have been. All about strategy, not overwhelming someone with greater numbers..

    But this is so so. The 'Rune" selection seems to add nothing to strategy, it's just an extra button to click, making fights more annoying and long winded. The Viking units seem weird. Their abilities    Disappointing. Loved the original Kings Bounty and the sequels, it was what Heroes of Might and Magic should have been. All about strategy, not overwhelming someone with greater numbers..

    But this is so so. The 'Rune" selection seems to add nothing to strategy, it's just an extra button to click, making fights more annoying and long winded. The Viking units seem weird. Their abilities don't seem to mesh well together. To cap it off, with the original games, you never knew what mix of units and artifacts you would get at start and throughout the islands. This meant that you had to change your strategy depending on your available units. Every game felt fresh, even though you'd already completed it. (I still play it from time to time.)

    But with this, you always start off with the same units.

    Finally, this is the fourth iteration of the series with the same graphical engine. It's a good engine and still looks ok, but it needs an update.

    In summary this just looks like a quick, not very well developed cash-in.

    Note: If you've never played KB before, it IS worth buying. If you've played the other three (or five, if you're old enough to remember the ps2 and Amiga versions!!) this will seem tired.    … Expand
  2. LD9000
    Oct 27, 2012
    7
    A good game. As a fan of the original series, there are few things that annoy me. First is that for the first 4 islands (at least) your troop selection is very limited, and the enemy is 95% undead, with some bears, snakes and spiders here and there. What made the original game great is that you build your army, and adapt it to a **wide variety of battles**. In the original game, you foughtA good game. As a fan of the original series, there are few things that annoy me. First is that for the first 4 islands (at least) your troop selection is very limited, and the enemy is 95% undead, with some bears, snakes and spiders here and there. What made the original game great is that you build your army, and adapt it to a **wide variety of battles**. In the original game, you fought varying armies of neutrals, humans, dwarves, orcs, etc. In the original series, you had to use real tactics to defeat armies. I do not see this too much in this game. Playing it on Hard, the majority of the battles feel way too easy and predictable. There's one ranged undead unit, occasionally a necromancer. I have more or less the same viking army. After 200 battles this gets repetitive. The units are cheap, and before level 15 I have about 400k gold, which I dont remember happening in other titles. My other complaints are poor translation quality, I cannot make sense of some traits (ex: Favorite of the Gods) and abilities. I've seen 1 pirate in 4 islands. Some skills are broken (like the random blessing of witch hunters). Other than that, the game is good, and is worth the price tag.… Expand
  3. Gixian82
    Jun 23, 2014
    6
    Not as good and/or fun as the previous titles in the series. Be it the use of the same graphics/engine for the third time, the weird viking units (i'm not a fan of them), the overcomplicated abilities of some units (especially with the Fire and Ice addon), the monotone beggining (with limits both on your troop types and enemy types) or the brutal length of the game (longest KB ever). It'sNot as good and/or fun as the previous titles in the series. Be it the use of the same graphics/engine for the third time, the weird viking units (i'm not a fan of them), the overcomplicated abilities of some units (especially with the Fire and Ice addon), the monotone beggining (with limits both on your troop types and enemy types) or the brutal length of the game (longest KB ever). It's still a nice tactical combat game once you get it running, but more repetitive and less fun than the older titles.

    If you are new for KB, look for Armoured Princess instead!    … Expand
  4. FRIST_008
    Jun 14, 2021
    7
    В итоге это крутая игра если ставить себе челледжы. С достаточным количеством новых механик, которые полностью основаны на том, чтобы углубить механику челледжей и вариаций боёв. Знаешь заклинание типа Каменной стены, так вот тут, есть и стена и взрывающаяся стена и колющая стена и думаю та, до которой я ещё не дошёл. Кароче все нацелено на челленджи. Но для тех кто не ставит для себяВ итоге это крутая игра если ставить себе челледжы. С достаточным количеством новых механик, которые полностью основаны на том, чтобы углубить механику челледжей и вариаций боёв. Знаешь заклинание типа Каменной стены, так вот тут, есть и стена и взрывающаяся стена и колющая стена и думаю та, до которой я ещё не дошёл. Кароче все нацелено на челленджи. Но для тех кто не ставит для себя такую цель. С учётом убитого юмора и из-за тупых героев и плоского сюжета почти везде, это может быть полный провал. Да и как я писал старые механики растянули для новичков и старички вряд-ли смогут вытерпеть отсутствия некоторых столь удобных механик без челленджей. Например, магия хаоса почти все убита до третьего острова из-за отступится атакующих заклинаний. А некоторые крутые заклинания ты банально не можешь купить из-за кучи свитков в книге, а продать их негде первые 20часов игры, если играешь нерасторопно, но пока что, нет зАмков. В общем очень много искусственных ограничений чтобы усложнить, то к чему ты привык и выбить тебя из колеи.… Expand
  5. kekkov
    Jun 11, 2021
    5
    Игра мне больше понравилась, чем не понравилась. Многие жалуются на затянутость сюжета на фоне прошлых частей. Не могу про это ничего сказать, в прошлые части я не играл.
    Низкая оценка только из-за того, что на windows 10 steam-версия игры вылетает каждые 10-20 минут. Приходится использовать быстрые сохранения. То, что персонаж постоянно в текстурах застревает, еще можно вытерпеть, но    Игра мне больше понравилась, чем не понравилась. Многие жалуются на затянутость сюжета на фоне прошлых частей. Не могу про это ничего сказать, в прошлые части я не играл.
    Низкая оценка только из-за того, что на windows 10 steam-версия игры вылетает каждые 10-20 минут. Приходится использовать быстрые сохранения. То, что персонаж постоянно в текстурах застревает, еще можно вытерпеть, но вот вылеты игры...    … Expand
  6. LT_Gruber
    Dec 10, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great game that got ruined by too many flaws.

    I am a huge fan of the King’s Bounty series but King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North did disappoint for too many reasons. Although I did have fun playing it, it is still the worst of the installments.

    The new concept of Warriors of the North is an exceptionally good one. I really liked the new Viking “race” and its new units, and the story line is well thought of. The idea of uniting all the different nations and fight for one single cause, the will to exist, is extraordinarily strong. I really loved the process of getting all the nations together and completing the required quests to do so. The final battles, where you fought as each individual King, Queen or leader against an undead general was epic. Really well done. It kept me interested all the time.

    I have to say that this game is the most balanced of the series. The enemies are tough, yes, but they level equally with you, giving you a fair chance throughout the whole game, assuming you leveled correctly and invested in your skills.

    The graphics of King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North are, once again, the same as the other games, but because of the rushed development they feel less appealing than the previous installments.

    The music disappointed a little. Although many of the great tracks from the previous games where there, it was just all over the place. Happy quiet forest music was playing during epic battles, epic battle music was playing during a quiet walk through the woods and the new “Viking” soundtracks sounded lame in my opinion, too happy and did not give me the feeling I was in a battle. Also, in one cave, the 10 second “victory” soundtrack, which you get when winning a battle, was on repeat the whole time. It drove me nuts. So, at the auditory department, they screwed it up. My favorite soundtrack was only playing once, the epic battle soundtrack with the trumpets and stuff, in a deserted castle with absolutely nothing to do.

    But now the main reasons I do not recommend this game.

    Technical reasons I do not recommend this game:

    King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is one of the most unstable games I played in my whole life. It crashed constantly at random moments; it drove me insane! I wanted to complete the game (because I am a masochist) and needed to save every fart. Every step, every breath every blink of my eyes was saved on the Steam cloud because you never know when the game decides to give you the middle finger again. I reinstalled the game, turned off the overlay (this was supposed to be a permanent fix), contacted Steam support but nothing helped. Crash, crash.

    The game is a total mess. It is full of grammatical errors and missing letters, programming codes are displayed when hovering over unit, artifact or hero information and whole words are spelled wrong.

    After the sixth billion crash, achievements stopped working so a lot of hard to get ones were still locked in Steam. In the game itself, they unlocked fine. After reinstalling the game, they worked again but I am still missing at least 10 ones that are really hard to complete.

    Game play reasons I do not recommend this game:

    Quests are broken. Some are un-finishable, some require special items that are long gone or donated and sometimes, you half completed something but the game will not register it and still sends you to a person that does not want to talk to you.

    Quests are misleading, vague, and never tell you what to do. Sometimes I needed to search on Google where the hell I needed to go.

    The rushed development results in different areas you cannot go to. When entering Demonis, I saw a huge area at the north-west that I could not go to. Later, I found out that it is the map from previous King’s Bounty games that has been recycled and blocked off by a stupid volcano? The Marshan Swamps is displayed with HUGE letters on the map but not once, you go to it. It is just another recycled piece of the map.

    They should have called this game “King’s Bounty: Delivery Boy of the North”. Never in my life have I walked back and forth more than in this game.

    The paths to different areas are a disaster. There are few shortcuts, so this means endless, tedious walks to different parts of the world for replenishing your units or completing a quest. Whenever a dude said: “Hey bro, go to Demonis and talk to that guy”, I was like “Oh God no, please not that whole journey again.

    The final battle was a joke. It was the easiest boss battle I have ever played. I am used to the King’s Bounty series and the unforgiving difficulty, but this, unbelievable.

    I realize that the game was rushed and that the developers may not have enough time to finish the game properly, but it is still no excuse to charge us full price (at the time) for a barely functional game.

    It is a shame, but all the above made King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North into a chore to finish.    … Expand

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#97 Best PC Game of 2012

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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PC Master (Greece)
    Feb 6, 2013
    80
    King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a great addition, much more rich in content than Crossworld and with a much better value-for-money ratio. [December 2012]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 21, 2012
    60
    Appealing, long-lasting and funny RPG strategy is exactly the same as its three previous parts. Next time we'd like some innovation. [Christmas 2012]
  3. DarkStation
    Dec 14, 2012
    80
    On top of the great strategy gameplay, Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North offers a great value with its $30 price tag. The worst thing that you can say about it is that it doesn't deviate much from King's Bounty: Armored Princess, besides a few details and a few conveniences – or is that the best thing that you can say about it? After all, Armored Princess was an excellent game.
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