From GameSpot's Brett Todd (the guy who previously reviewed Dark Messiah: Elements (3.5/10), Hammers of Fate (6.4/10) and Tribes of the East (5.5/10) comes a surprisingly positive review of King's Bounty: The Legend (thanks RPGWatch). However, the final score (8) remains a bit lower than the current average, partly because of the game's lack of innovation. Here is an excerpt of the article:
"The only real difference between King's Bounty and Heroes of Might and Magic or Disciples is a greater emphasis on role-playing. Story is brought to the fore here in a much more overt way, thanks to a sarcastic sense of humor and a ton of quests to be solved. True, most of these quests have been scooped out of the big bag of RPG cliches (find stolen property, remove a curse, kill the big bad whatever that's plaguing our village, and so on). But many come with multiple parts that force you to venture all over the map to solve them, along with a great deal of personality conveyed through idiosyncratic characters and a lot of text. You can't just skip around like you're filling in blanks; do so and you're liable to get caught not paying attention...So even though these various tasks might not break any new ground, completing them is more involving than the map-clearing busywork that dominates the usual tactical RPG."
In other news, the game gets
