Mac Gaming

It’s difficult to try and describe King’s Bounty: The Legend. As a game, it’s an interesting mix of light role-playing and turn-based strategy. The battles are almost like chess insofar as characters are placed on opposite ends of a field and you take turns making moves and trying to wipe out your opponent’s army. But that makes KB sound much more serious than it is. No, the glue holding everything together is the wonderfully ridiculous, fanciful, and insane fantasy world in which the game takes place. Do the bidding of frog royalty; resurrect dead pirates; marry a zombie — it’s all in here, plus a tonne more.

My Settings

Frame rates don’t really matter a whole lot in King’s Bounty, so I was able to turn up the settings fairly high. Below are my settings.

The Verdict

It’s nice to play a game at 1920×1200, which doesn’t happen often on the iMac. Frame rates stay in the mid 20s, but as I said, this doesn’t hinder the game in any way. I really like the cartoony, bright art-style of the game, and it complements the madness of the narrative. King’s Bounty can provide hours of game play: It’s casual enough that you can just pick it up and play for a short time, but strategic enough that you could lose yourself in the insanity and forget the time altogether.

Metacritic.com User Score

9.2/10