King's Bounty: Crossworlds

King's Bounty: Crossworlds
Developer(s)Katauri Interactive
Publisher(s)1C Company
SeriesKing's Bounty
Platform(s)Windows
Release17 September 2010[1]
Genre(s)Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

King's Bounty: Crossworlds (Russian: King's Bounty: Перекрёстки миров) is an expansion pack for the tactical role-playing game King's Bounty: Armored Princess.

It includes the Orcs on the March expansion (which is the expanded version of Armored Princess campaign, totally rebalanced with orcs), two new independent campaigns, and an editor with help system. The editor allows the user to create additional content for the game and alter it in any way.

Development

The development of the expansion pack was revealed in May 2010 by 1C Company and Katauri Interactive. New additions in the expansion pack include two new campaigns Champion of the Arena and Defender of the Crown, Orcs on the March expansion for King's Bounty: Armored Princess, new quests, items, spells and creatures. A game-editor allows players to create mods for King's Bounty' Armored Princess with the help of the tool.[2][3] The game was released on September 17 of the same year, and was released in three different editions. The standard version contains the new content of King's Bounty: Crossworlds and requires an installed version of King's Bounty: Armored Princess. The Game of the Year Edition contained both King's Bounty: Armored Princess as well as King's Bounty: Crossworlds. King's Bounty: Platinum Edition contains King's Bounty' Armored Princess and King's Bounty: Crossworlds, along with King's Bounty: The Legend.[4]

Reception

The game holds a score of 78/100 on Metacritic and an aggregate of 75.7% on GameRankings.[5][6] King's Bounty: Crossworlds received an 8/10 from Brett Todd of GameSpot, who said that the "combat is still no walk in the park", and although felt to be similar from its predecessors, he was ultimately positive to the game.[7] Mike Splechta of GameZone awarded it a score of 7/10.[8] Jazz McDougall of PC Gamer gave it a score of 78/100, calling its campaigns less interesting than the King's Bounty: Armored Princess.[9]

References

  1. ^ "King's Bounty: Crossworlds Available". IGN. September 17, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  2. ^ "King's Bounty: Crossworlds in development". IGN. j2 Global. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  3. ^ Ben Parlee (7 June 2010). "King's Bounty: Crossworlds expansion oozes bounty". Destructoid. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  4. ^ "King's Bounty: Crossworlds available". IGN. j2 Global. 17 September 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b "King's Bounty: Armored Princess reviews on GameRankings". CBS Interactive. GameRankings. CBS Corporation. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  6. ^ a b "King's Bounty: Armored Princess reviews on Metacritic". CBS Interactive. Metacritic. CBS Corporation. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  7. ^ a b Brett Todd (20 September 2010). "King's Bounty: Crossworlds review on GameSpot". CBS Interactive. GameSpot. CBS Corporation. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  8. ^ a b Mike Splechta (18 September 2010). "King's Bounty: Crossworlds review on GameZone". GameZone. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  9. ^ a b Jazz McDougall (23 October 2010). "King's Bounty: Crossworlds review on PC Gamer". PC Gamer. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  10. ^ Tyler Sager (21 September 2010). "King's Bounty: Crossworlds review on Gaming Nexus". Gaming Nexus. Retrieved 25 March 2019.