King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North Developer Diary

GamesBeat is offering an exclusive ‘pre-mortem’ developer diary on King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North penned by project lead Denis Maltzev, which deals with the viking ‘race’ and their units. Here’s a snip:

Warriors of the North tells the story of Olaf, the Viking, the youngest son of Tormund the Ferocious, who sets on a path of war against the undead swarming the land of Nordlig. The path is soaked with blood, treachery and love. Olaf has to withstand tons of dangerous challenges, visit lots of places he’s never been to (although some of those will be very familiar to those of you who played King’s Bounty: The Legend) and fight back the hordes of the undead.

It’s been always one of the key features of the King’s Bounty series that if there’s a new race, or simply new unit added, the game will also feature all the units ever shown in the previous titles. This time around we introduced an entire new race, yes, the Vikings I just wrote about. It was pretty easy to guess. To prevent you from major spoilers let me showcase just about half of new units and show some of their specific abilities. Hopefully this will also help you plan out part of your army in case you prefer these guys to your favorite standbys in the game. (I like an army of assassins, but that’s just my tactics.)

It’d be quite strange if the Vikings did not have a Viking warrior in their roster: lvl 2 Unit with 2 talents/abilities: Berzerker (pretty usual feature of this northern race to eat mushrooms, gain bloodlust and become enraged, uncontrollable and crush anything in front of them) and Shield Blow (smashes the enemy with 30% chance of stunning for 1 turn inflicting 3-7 damage).