More Kings Bounty coming - Crossworlds

[pilonv1]

     MOSCOW, Russia — May 24, 2010 — Leading Eastern and Central European publisher 1C Company and Katauri Interactive today announced the development of King’s Bounty: Crossworlds, a stand-alone expansion to the award-winning King’s Bounty: Armored Princess.

    The expansion features two new campaigns and a massive expansion to King’s Bounty: Armored Princess, dozens of new quests, new items, spells and creatures. Fans of the King’s Bounty series will be thrilled to see their requests were answered as King’s Bounty: Crossworlds will also include a full-scale game editor. As in the multi-award winning 1st game, the player has many options to battle both new and old enemies. Various new skills and abilities, as well as a flying steed, will help to overcome the hordes attacking the kingdom. The Princess is also accompanied by her tamed dragon, at the very beginning it is small, but its abilities develop steadily until it becomes an incredible ally. The dragon will do its best to protect the Princess during the battles, starting with simple attacks and finishing with fire breathing and volcano summoning.

    King’s Bounty: Crossworlds features:

    · 2 brand new campaigns (Champion of the Arena with boss battles in a gladiatorial tournament and Defender of the Crown with battles in unique tactical arenas with a random selection of enemies and allies).

    · Massive expansion of the original King’s Bounty: Armored Princess – Orcs on the March, featuring new units, spells and quests.

    · New creatures to slay or use in combat.

    · 70 new items, 8 new item sets, including one for the pet dragon and 3 component artifacts.

    · 7 new quests allow players to continue their journey.

    · 50 new abilities and skills.

    · 13 new spells.

    · Game Editor for King’s Bounty: Armored Princess.

    The King’s Bounty series are adventure games with tactical turn-based battles and RPG elements unfolding in a rich fantasy world. The character and their army of companions travel across a huge continent, visiting dozens of different locations all connected to each other. Communicating with NPCs, collecting resources and recruiting an army the player will control their character in real-time mode, while all battles take place in classic turn-based mode with a strong emphasis on tactical elements. King’s Bounty: Crossworlds release is scheduled for
    Q3 2010. More information about the game can be found at www.kings-bounty.com

full game editor

[Bebpo]

Nice.  Now that I'm catching up on my PC backlog maybe I'll finally get started on this franchise

[archie4208]

[pilonv1]

It's great but armored princess is so much better. It is exciting to think how awesome this expansion will be

[GilloD]

AP is a great example of a game where there's no reason to go back to the first one. Kind of like ME 1.

[magus]

i liked the original a lot but i've never finished it since the final bit was just too boring,as for armored princess... i played for a bit and then just stopped for no particular reason

[Bebpo]

AP is a great example of a game where there's no reason to go back to the first one. Kind of like ME 1.

Well besides the story/writing/map layouts in both games.

[OptimoPeach]

AP is a great example of a game where there's no reason to go back to the first one. Kind of like ME 1.

What if someone never played either? King's Bounty is one of the bazillion PC franchises I have on my List of Allegedly Good Stuff I Should Play Sometime

[GilloD]

AP is a great example of a game where there's no reason to go back to the first one. Kind of like ME 1.

What if someone never played either? King's Bounty is one of the bazillion PC franchises I have on my List of Allegedly Good Stuff I Should Play Sometime

I'd go BACK to KB if you really liked AP and wanted more, but I can't think of any reason to start with KB. There is literally nothing WORSE about AP, they really refined the whole thing. KB has some slightly larger maps, maybe the environments are a little cooler, but they also get to be a crazy pain in the ass. AP is a tighter experience. But if you finished it and wanted MORE MORE MORE, I'd go back to KB. But it will feel like a downgrade

[magus]

king's bounty is more crazy,for example compare the tutorial
in armored princess you get some captain knight,he gives you a overpowered unit and you massacre a few bandits
in the original,you start right off the bat in the tutorial,there is still a captain knight but he's like "HERE ARE SOME AWESOME UNIT,GO AND SAVE THIS PUPPET DRESSED LIKE A PRINCESS FROM A DRAGON!"

[GilloD]

What?

[Joe Molotov]

King's Bounty: Crossworld is out next week. Only 10 US Dollars. Pre-order now.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/63910/

[Bebpo]

$10 is a great price.  Does that mean it's going to be a smaller expansion than Armored Princess? 

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I still haven't played either KB or AP

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[Joe Molotov]

Armored Princess was kind of a standalone sequel/expansion, whereas Crossworlds is just a regular expansion. I'm not sure what the length is like (it says "extensive"  ), but the new campaign is an extension of the Armored Princess campaign (it sounds like you get to use your same character), and then there's two bonus campaigns. Plus the editor, which means down the road we should see a flood of fan campaigns.

[archie4208]

I'm DLing this off Steam.  Apparently they goofed up and it is playable now. 

[archie4208]

Steam restricted my access to Crossworld and corrupted my Armored Princess savegame.  PC gaming.   

[Great Rumbler]

I'm DLing this off Steam.  Apparently they goofed up and it is playable now. 

Steam restricted my access to Crossworld and corrupted my Armored Princess savegame.  PC gaming.   

rofl

[pilonv1]

[pilonv1]

Is it just me or is this $20 now?

[Great Rumbler]

No, the original $10 price was apparently a mistake.

[Joe Molotov]

Is it just me or is this $20 now?

They're honoring the $10 price for everybody that preordered before they fixed it, everyone else gets to pay $20.