This is a wonderful sequel to the Heroes of Might and Magic series. I have a high-end PC and it runs very well. This game should be played on a desent computer, not an anchient one. The battles are well done and the interface is more easy to use. I spent many hours playing Heroes III. Heroes V seems to fall short with the 'Custom' games. They are praticaly mini-campains for Heroes V, when for Heroes III they were a good combination of a few objective levels, along with a lot of just defeat-your-opponent levels. I found that a lot of Heroes III's replayability was bassed in it's many defeat-your-opponent custom levels. I have read that the expansion will bring an end to this complaint of mine, so if you buy this game, be sure to buy the expansion!
Game is very similar in play to others in the series. Much nicer graphics with the town screens a very strong improvement. Beautiful how it is done. You actually see the buildings built. Love the reintroduction of upgrades to creatures, but where are the caravans. Nice tweaks to the hero screens. You now have a hero specific special ability and specific abilities increase to a heroes skills. Very nice. Limited in the amount of artificats you can use however compared to HOMM 3 & 4. MEMORY HOG I have a 256 video card and even in low graphics the game moves somewhat slow. Highly recommend having at least 1mb of ram for memory.
I played Heroes of Might and Magic since the first version many years ago. I was using 4 but it got scratched up, so I saw there was a version 5 out and got that instead. It did not disappoint. While all the Heroes versions are pretty similar, I've really enjoyed playing this. It's just such a good game and I'm actually really glad they didn't mess with it besides graphic-wise. You pick a Hero and go around conquering the land. My favorite part is getting experience so that I can get the Diplomacy skill for my hero, which helps convince members of "neutral" enemies to join you instead of fighting or fleeing from you. The battles are fun, where you can move your guys around and attack the enemy, and if your hero has the skill you can cast spells to aid them. This is my favorite game of all time and it's just so enjoyable and easy to figure out and a bit of strategy but nothing you'll die agonizing over. Love this game!Read full review
The graphics are awesome! WITH the expansion pack, this is a great game. They stayed very close to Heroes 3, as far as items and layout. Everything is redrawn, and so huge that scenarios usually have maybe two to six or eight towns in them max, that's all that will fit. And walking around takes oodles of time. That was frustrating. As already mentioned, it eats up computer graphics ability so beware of that. The towns rotate, the fights use multiple viewing angles, most everything is 3D and incredibly beautiful. Great teams, great fights! I didn't like it until they came out with the patch and the expansion pack, which add an editor and a random map generator (and the expansion pack introduces the stongest team of all, the dwarfs) respectively, and with that I was happy. Alone, the game is very small, only a handful of scenarios to play and no way to choose which team you want to be.Read full review
Heroes V was a huge let down. After playing heroes 1->3 complete this heroes V was completely opposite, since the maker of heroes changed from being 3do to some other japanes company the game is so false. The game has new creatures that dont fallow greek mythology, but are made up creatures. also a lot of the programming is flawd. Trying to move creatures in and out of ur garrison is a huge hassle, and can take me minutes. And no this is not my computer, im a geek, my computer is perfect. the image quality is all. nothing wrong w/ the person who sold this product, its just that the product maker made a bad game in comparison to what 3do upheld.
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