User Reviews (1 - 11 of 69)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Beware - spyware installed with game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: June 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are three important things you should know before buying this game.

1) The game installs spyware on your computer and sends information back to Ubi Soft without your explicit permission. They have a vague statement in the user agreement, but do not specify what information they are collecting. According to Spy Sweeper the spy Heroes 5 installs is high risk. The only solution that I know if you want to play the game on a PC connected to the Internet is to have a good firewall program that blocks the Ubi soft spyware. Personally, I find this tactic by Ubi soft to be unethical.
2) The game is slow. So slow that on my PC is an AMD X2 Dual Core Processor and 2 GB of RAM that it is unplayable. I loaned the game to two friends (hoping to sell it actually), but it the game would not even run on either of their PCs.
3) The last bit of info brings me to point three: the game is not compatible with many PCs.

I have been an avid fan of the earlier version of Heroes of Might and Magic, but given the above I'll have to pass on this one until and if Ubi soft can fix the bugs, and more importantly, stop surreptitiously installing spyware.

Bottom line: Don't waste your money.

Such a Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I cannot with good conscience recommend this game to any potential shopper.

As a true and decades long fan of the Heroes of Might and Magic series, I must admit to being so very disappointed with this game out of the box. I enjoy the strategy and tactics that HOMM has always offered, but HOMM 5 is too limited in scope to rise to the challenge.

As a casual player, I just want to play Heroes without a time constraint or shifting objectives which is what the vast majority of the game out of the box is all about. I have never really enjoyed playing the previous campaigns, and that is in essence all that is included in this game. The six individual scenarios are scaled down campaigns that have shifting objectives or else you can lose without even combating any opponent.

The potential for HOMM 5 remains. It can be a successful game even in my eyes. But Ubisoft (distributor) and Nival (game producer) are incredibly slow and unresponsive in setting up promised patches and increasing the limited variety of gameplay.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 26
Date: August 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'd love to write a full review about this game, but Ubisoft will not fix a critical issue. Yes, even with patch v1.2

If your computer is part of a network, and you backup up your My Documents folder using offline file synchronization, you cannot play this game for any length of time. Oh sure, it will load up and run, but you cannot save games. Unfortunately, this is not listed as part of the criteria for playing the game -- that you cannot recall your saved games if you are (like most intelligent people do), backing up your files. Ubisoft responds to this by saying:

"The game will not save correctly to or work correctly if the My Documents folder is being stored on a network drive and apparently this was intentional. This was called for by
Microsoft Windows XP guidelines for developers."

So Ubisoft is saying that the game will not work on a network where users synch their files to the server, that they blame Microsoft (which makes no sense), and that they do not consider this an issue worthy of addressing. Oh wait, except I paid $55 for a couple of useless CD's and a lot of wasted time trying to fix the issue.

Heroes V

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is great, but if you have a windows xp other than 2000 (which I do Windows xp 2002 home edition) one cannot save any games. This is awful, not being able to ever save. REALLY BAD

I'd love this if it worked

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: June 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was hooked on this series since it started and own versions 2 and 3 with the expansion packs. It is one of the most fun series I've ever seen. I purchased version 5 as soon as it was available but was extremely dissapointed. It took 3 attempts to load it successfully and then I couldn't get the scenarios to run. Ubisoft customer support was quick to point out that no intel video is supported. I run all the other games on my Toshiba Satellite M45 but they've decided that this version needs more. I strongly recommend visiting the ubisoft forum and looking at all the issues before purchase. If you've got a system it will run on I'm sure you'll love it.

Stick with HOMM3 or 4

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the HOMM series with the following exceptions (playstation version and pc version 5)
There are some excellent reviews written on the game. I want to add my frustrations to the growing list of lack of description and maps...

1: The graphics are too Nintendo like. HOMM4 was crisp and detailed enough for this style of game. The new graphics make me think im playing the gamecube and not my PC. The cut scene graphics are very stale. Given the high horsepower requirements for this game and the animations in combat, the cut scenes could have a bit more going on. (example, you hear the voices of the people talking, but their mouths never move)
2: The game cheats. Ok all strategy video games cheat as the computer doesnt have to follow all the same rules the player does. However they need to set some limits on things. For example the final scenario in campaign 1 you need to over throw the dark tower, but first you must clear out a gateway. usually not a problem, but this one is manned pretty well. Obvious solution is to build a bigger army. I probably spent a game month building what I thought would be a devistating army. I faced the gate with 12 archangles lots of cavliers and knights and so on. The computer had 1000 devils, 3000 sucubuss like createus and so on and so on. There is no way the computer could have generated that many units out of its town. I know in past version of HOMM unit stacks would increase over time, but this seems to have increased exponentually. Thus the scenario was made unplayable, and needed to be restarted.
3: Removal of the best parts of HOMM 4. They took out the caravan and free movement of units. I thought these were great features. Now i need a hero to baby sit units being moved to the front line while my main heroes are battling it out.

I guess Im missing the need to remake HOMM 3 again. I've stopped playing the game and probably wont pick it up again. It is not that repeat playable in its current configuration and offers no value for my money.

It go crash, then call microsoft for error

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: June 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

couldn't get this to work on either my new system or my old system.
Went crashola. Then it offered to send a bug report to microsoft.
I want my money back!

False Advertizing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I send this game back because it was advertized as E for everyone when it was really rated T for Teens. It was my 10 year old son who had wanted it. It was also not noted that this product will not work on your computer unless you have a new type of graphics card. So... if your computer is a few years old, don't buy this game.

Nothing has changed except from the graphics

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game looks nice but except from the graphics nothing else has been changed from the previous version.You should by this game only if you missed playing heroes but do not expect much from it.

Uninstalled within 30 minutes.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 28
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am very dissapointed in this title. I will not buy another in this series, and I urge noone else to either. However, I am selling mine on here for 25% of the cost I paid for it today. Perhaps someone with bad taste will appreciate this terrible game.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next 

Actions