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Argh!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: March 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is good...up to a point. Like the bots in Quake 3, the senarios are either very easy or very HARD. I've also noticed that when you start a mission, if you enter the cheat that reveals the whole map, you'll notice that the enemy always has more than TEN chests of gold and at least FOUR artifacts right within easy reach! All this while YOU have to scrounge by to surivive in the early game! Later on, when you control vast armies, which would make Waterloo look like little kids playing War, you'll run into computers which will, naturally, have armies approximately three times larger than your own. The game CHEATS! Trust me, you'll be screaming in rage too when you enter the scene with twenty of your best units and find that the computer has seventy of his. At least it's not as bad as HOMM2, which had one mission put you up against more than 200 bone dragons!

Hard, enjoyable game play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I always have have mixed feelings about the 'Heroes' games. They are a combination of 'Civilization' and RTSs like 'Starcraft' with a turn-based combat engine thrown in, I really enjoy the building and exploration parts. However when I get ready to start conquering, most times I find opponents who are ten times more powerful than I am. Most Herons maps require either a quick rush or a 'build combat force only' tactic. This is especially true on Large and eXtra-Large maps. If loved previous Heroes installments this one is more of the same. If you've never played Heroes before it's harder to recommend since the gameplay is monolithic. Fortunately you can pickup other editions such as Heroes III dirt-cheap. I encountered no technical issues playing this game.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Heroes of Might and Magic is a very involved game, using sorcery, mystical creatures and knights. You need to discover new lands for yourselves, and before the enemy does. With your own special Hero, Castle, and Creatures, you must claim these lands, battle monsters, and use your meney wisely to grow in power and wealth.

A fantastic game for a rainy, long day.

Strategic, Slow, and Long

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This normally takes a long time and is purely strategy-based. There are at least 50 different creatures you can fight with, each with special abilities and statistics. You send "heroes" to bring these creatures around the map to gain resources, experience, artifacts, and other treasures. Then you use your cities to make more creatures. Generally, the idea is to wipe out your opponents in stunning, turn-based battle sequences. The heroes are generally few and they often just explore and wipe out uncontrolled creatures, which may flee, attack you, join you, or offer themselves for hire. The games take a long time depending on the map, at least 3 hours. You can make scenarios, and the editor is pretty friendly. I recommend this game for people who want a slow-paced, strategic challenge.

Fun, but just an improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After playing Heroes of Might and Magic 2 for years I was excited about Heroes 3. But, after I got the game I thought it was just Heroes 2 all over again. All that was really done to the game was add several creature, take away a few creatures, mix the towns up a little, and slap better graphics on it. Though I must admit that it was just as fun (and pehaps even more fun) than Heroes 2. One of the greatest things about this game is the plot and story (much better than Heroes 2.) If you're thinking of buying this game, and don't have Heroes 2, then know that it can be very addicting. If you do have Heroes 2 then only buy this game if you want better graphics and a few new creatures then go ahead and get it.

Heroes III: the greatest PC game in history (?)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 21
Date: April 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've been pretty much addicted to this game since it came out the better part of a year ago. Some gaming sites and mags (e.g., PC GAMER) gave this game very good--but not superior--reviews. But unlike these reviewers, I don't buy the view that just because Heroes III is in principle very much like Heroes II it is not a superior game. This may be fallacious reasoning, but I know Heroes III is a great, great game because I do not get addicted to anything less than great, great games (i.e., StarCraft, WarCraft II, Alpha Centauri, Duke Nukem 3D, and a few others). I could go on and on about how fun this game is to play, how enjoyable the different spells and monsters are. And with the add-on (well, there are two of them now), Heroes III has infinite replayability. From the p.o.v. of a strategy gamer, this is one of the top ten best games of all time. (My big stack of Ancient Behemoths will kick the butts of a million of your wimpy Quake monsters!) Seriously, any fan of strategy games should check this one out, pronto, esp. since the price has dropped so low.

Top calibre turn-based strategy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: February 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Heros of Might and Magic (the very first one), I was unimpressed. I had played Warlords, one of its contemporaries, and Heroes I lacked the depth of its competitor.

Fast forward to Heroes of Might and Magic III. What a phenomenal improvement over its predecessors! The art is breathtaking. The music is worth listening to even while you're not playing. The number of units available is staggering. The gameplay is balanced and addictive. In no other game do I succumb to the "just one one turn" syndrome so easily. In addition, the relaxed pace of a turn-based strategy game is welcome, especially after all the real-time strategy games that cover the aisles, walls, and floors of software stores.

And if the maps and campaigns that ship with the game aren't enough to satisfy you, New World Computing has included their map editor to allow you to make your own maps. There are several sites on the net dedicated to archiving other people's creations.

I've been a fan of Might and Magic for 10 years now and this game is easily worthy of acting as the franchise's flagship strategy offering.

Take up the gauntlet and win!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: January 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I watched a friend of mine play the demo version of this game and within an hour I was totally hooked. After completing the demo for myself I rushed out and bought the full version. Until I played HMM3 I used to ridicule turn based combat, I thought that it was totally unrealistic and that it slowed down the flow of events. Well this game changed all that for me, battle becomes an intellectual challenge, a sort of graphically superior Battle Chess. The fights often end up being better than the disorganised melee that Warcraft II battles can degenerate into. Many was the time I started a fight with an enemy only to be shocked by size of the forces aligned against me. To be able to claw your way back from almost certain defeat to a glorious victory is a major buzz!

There's a lot of pleasure to be had from selecting a hero and slowly building up their experience, knowledge and magical powers. Likewise you become almost sad when you have to sacrifice some of these heroes to save the others.

The cut scenes are truly cinematic in quality and set the scene really well. The main map graphics are clear pleasant but nothing outstanding, about the same quality and viewing angle as Warcraft II and no 3D graphics card is required. During the battle scenes the character graphics and animation is excellent, see your foes reel in agony and collapse!

HMM3 sound is the best I have ever heard from any game with superb spot effects, beautiful orchestrated music that occasionally stirs the blood and draws you deeper into the game. You'll probably need a decent sound card to appreciate it fully.

The only minor irritation I could find was the slight feeling of being hemmed in. With Warcraft and Command & Conquer you are free to build structures anywhere on the main map and you can adapt your defences to the terrain. In this game additional structures are provided for you depending on your levels of cash and other resources. These new structures never appear on the main map and can only be seen by entering a castle.

I take my hat off to the designers, artists and programmers who created HMM3, it is a highly recommended experience.

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: June 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Overall Play - [*****]5 Stars. I found that playing in single-player mode after a while became dull, but, playing with 4-8 ppl in "Hotseat" mode was one of the best times I've had on a computer game. The numerous races, heros, spells, skills, creatures, artifacts, and maps make this game one of the best I've ever seen.

Artwork - [*****]5 Stars. The artwork is astonishing as they incorporate real artwork and great drawings [look at the Elven race's dragon cliff, that is a real photo of a cliff with drawn in caves and dragon animations]. The hero designs are sometimes amusing and are well done. The spells and symbols inside the spellbook are very very well done and add a level of realism.

Graphics - [***]3 Stars. The spell graphics in battle suck. Take the spell Armeggedon...you expect a big "boom" from the symbol and description in the spellbook, but it just throws red meteors across your screen =[. They could have made the battle graphics better...but...the graphics while running on the "map" are pretty good. Overall play outmatches graphics so much though, it's almost irrelevent to talk about them.

Sound - [*****]5 Stars. The music inside your town is actually pleasent to listen to. And your race determains what music will be played which I thought was pretty cool [i.e. Celtic music is played inside Elven towns etc etc.] Battle music is Okay, the normal "thrilling" music in most RPGs.

Hope this review was helpfull. Thx for reading =]

My favorite game of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is simply the best turn based fantasy game ever. The races each have their own strenghts and weaknesses but balance very well. Worth getting for any fans of strategy games.

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