The Banner Saga 2

Versus Evil

Role Playing, Strategy, Simulation

TEEN

Alcohol Reference, Blood, Violence, Mild Language

$24.99

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The Banner Saga 2

$24.99⁺

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Banner Saga Trilogy

$49.99

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Xbox One

Description

The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your Viking clans make it through alive. If played, your choices will carry over from the first game, or you can start fresh with new preset characters. As the world continues to crumble around you, only one bastion of hope remains, but getting there will require strong leadership, hard sacrifices, influencing new heroes, and sound strategy in combat. • New Characters and a New Race, the Horseborn. • Improved Strategic combat with consequences – improved, more strategic battle boards enhance combat and permanent loss of characters will still weigh heavy on your mind long after the battle is over. • The journey is as important as battle – your role is critical in building and managing your caravan as you travel the vast landscape.

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Published by

Versus Evil

Developed by

Stoic

Release date

7/1/2016

Approximate size

4.13 GB

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$4.99

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Install on your home Xbox One console plus have access when you’re connected to your Microsoft account.

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Most helpful favorable review

Regius Eques

12/30/2016

Great emotional game

This a great game but your going to have to play it twice to get the hang of it. Thd first time your going to suck but after that its alot of fun. There are definitely some hard choices to make so don't try to get everything you want because you can't and doing that leads to starving people and by the second half you will wish you had bought all the food you could. This game actually by the end had me care about the characters. I love a game with a great story and this one did for sure. So if you like emotionally charged storys that force you to make the choices no leader wants to make then this is the game for you. The grahics are beautiful but if you want amazing realistic grahics then go play another game. I recommend this game its just the people who rated this badly ether want everything and don't know how to strike a balance and/or just want to play a first person action game and want good realistic grahics that are amazing. They also don't appreciate a good story line.

Most helpful critical review

Kevin

7/10/2016

Crashing - ruins what could be good

The game consistently crashes during training and challenge modes whenever I use the d-pad to select a target. I'm not sure if it affects the story battles, but it's frustrating not being able to train or do challenges. Seems like a good game, but ruined by this bug.

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Reviewed ByRegius Eques

Xbox

12/30/2016

Review title of Regius EquesGreat emotional game

31 out of 32 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByA Raid Boss

Xbox

12/23/2016

Review title of A Raid BossThe Banner marches on.

To put it plainly, The Banner Saga 2 is a rare example of a solid sequel. It's difficult for me to explain in detail without spoilers but suffice it to say it is the building upon of the story that really makes TBS 2 shine. Content wise, the game offers many new party classes and enemies to fight against. Combat is greatly improved by adding talents onto stat trees, allowing personalized builds for all party members. Items and levels carry over, complimenting the new items and raised level cap to 10 for all characters. Unfortunately the game does have a bit of a shaky ending in rushing to set up a 3rd game. Also unfortunate is that the second console port is as bad as the first. Expect often freezing and crashing which can be aggravating during long battles. The Banner Saga 2 does an excellent job of adding more to the experience while keeping everything the same, solidifying it as an RPG series worth enjoying.

26 out of 28 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByNeocount GT BSR

Xbox

11/7/2017

Review title of Neocount GT BSRfantastic, my favorite series on my xbox

great, compelling story packaged with an excellent turn based strategy game. Once you get the game mechanics it is an endlessly enjoyable game. Each heros abilities compliments the others in unexpected ways leading to extremely different strategies depending on party make up. My nongamer GF enjoys the game just for the story. Hyped for the 3rd and final game.

12 out of 12 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByItchyProduct01

Xbox

12/20/2017

Review title of ItchyProduct01What a sequel should be.

Too often I have loved a game for what it was (or what it wasn't) only to be let down by it's sequel. Usually because the developers find unecessary reasons to change the formula of what made it's original game enjoyable in the first place. Which is why I love this game. I found the first to be brilliantly executed, and bring back the fond memories I have from the genre in the past. The sequel not only furthered it's excellent storyline and familiar gameplay, but did it without the need to change what made it great. The Banner Saga series deserves both your attention and your support. Absolutely a must play.

28 out of 31 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByStarkiller v2

Xbox

10/28/2016

Review title of Starkiller v2Great game, however...

The final boss and ending were subpar compared to the first game and it removes the need to promote Bolverk if the player knows this fact, if you have played and beaten both games you'll understand why i feel this way but that being said it's still worth playing the whole way through especially if you have beaten the first one, I still feel connected to some of the characters and the combat is as good as ever but to undertand it better play the first game, in conclusion good game but i know they can do a better ending that is my only gripe with it the passions there i can see and feel it.

27 out of 32 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByBloodyKisses x

Xbox

4/5/2018

Review title of BloodyKisses xLet Me See Your Shieldwall!

A turned based strategy game with story choices is what The Banner Saga series is all about. In this sequel, you pick up right where the first game ended. All of your choices, heroes, ranks and items carry over. As your clan travels to its destination in an attempt to survive the mysterious darkness covering the land, events will spring up where your choices are important. These choices can lead to good or bad events happening. Even to skirmishes or a hero getting killed so don't choose recklessly. Before each skirmish, you must choose which heroes will fight and what order they take their turns in. Important for getting the best use out of their specific abilities as you and the enemy take turns moving one at a time rather than your whole team at once. Each battle gives you renown to spend on ranking up your heroes or buying food at markets. TBS2 also introduces a new race and new enemies to the series. I recommend starting with the first game to get the most out of the story choices.

5 out of 5 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByDustin

Xbox

8/9/2016

Review title of DustinI got it free with Gold, great choice.

After getting into the second the first was amust buy. Great game with a soundtrack fit for an epic. I found the story engrossing enough to melt hours away. Highly recommended for strategy gamers and players that enjoy story driven games. Banner Saga 3 with a 2018 release!?! Say it isn't so.

16 out of 20 people found this helpful.

Reviewed BySTRIK3R132

Xbox

2/4/2018

Review title of STRIK3R132AWESOME

Maybe a year or two ago i got this game for free, played it and forgot about, i then needed more space for other games so it was deleted. skip ahead to the future and i find myself bored re-downloading this game and it was a masterpiece incredible art, intriguing plot challenging and somewhat stressful gameplay, if i could rate this higher i would

4 out of 4 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByMe

Xbox

8/6/2016

Review title of MeNice turn based strategy game for XB1.

This game seems to be a *Visual Novel* style game. It has a unique art stlye. It one of those choice matters games. Basically you guide refugees from one area to a safer city. Choices that lead to combat bring you to the turn based mechanics. Other choices, seem to have randomized results for the masses following you. As the title suggest it is a saga, so this the 2nd chapter in the story. I got this free one month because of XB1 Gold, but I easily deem it worth $15 bucks.

16 out of 22 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByKandarr

Xbox

3/17/2018

Review title of KandarrSo Good.

An excellent story with solid grid combat makes this game a must play for turn based strategy fans. The hand drawn animation in both the gameplay and cutscenes is awesome, and gives both Banner Saga's their own distinct feel.

3 out of 3 people found this helpful.

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