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Sorry guys... this game crashes and burns!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've played the last 4 M&M games and have loved them all. I have also played all the Heroes of M&M games and think they are excellent. Basically, up until last night, I was a New World Computing fanatic.

That is until I played M&M9... I won't go into the details but the graphocs are the least of the problems. It's lost all sense of immersion and is extremely flat, buggy and boring. I honestly can't believe it. This probably spells the end for this otherwise fantastic series. NWC should really reevaluate the team that produced this product.

However, Hereoes of Might and Magic 4 is excellent!!!

what's going on?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've had to come online to double check I had the right game - I thought maybe I'd learnt my roman numerals wrong or this was a counterfit version - I say this because when I started playing this game I immediately thought OH no, I've got the earliest version of MM not the latest!! I loved MM6 and 7, the inventory was great and the graphics while not the flashest were enjoyable, and the layout easy to use, like mixing potions and using the maps. This game is seriously limited - it's like everything you could do has been taken away. On top of that it glitches out left right and center. I'm bummed, I was looking forward to getting stuck into a new game and I've been landed with this budget junk. You'd be better off to drag out the old MM games and play them than put time and moneyt into this.

Unbelieveable

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After all the innovations over the past 15 years, Might and Magic still looks the SAME! If you like the game play of Might and Magic, you will enjoy this game, however, I can't seem to get past the fact that the graphics look as though they were created on a Commadore 64. The graphics and type are blocky, like first gen games.. for those at 3D0, PLEASE PLEASE invest in a new engine that isn't 10 years behind your compitition!!

Going down hill fast....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what 3DO is thinking with this line of games. The first six of these games aren't bad and are some of the classics of the genre. However, once seven came along, there were some very dramatic facelifts to the RPG. Baldur's Gate and Torment came out around the same time and really added some needed depth to the RPG. The M&M series is still stuck in that same old rut of level, new spell, new dungeon, new level, etc. etc. So that leads up to the newest installment. They have finally improved over the 2D graphics of five years ago with a 3D model that looks like it should have come out 4 years ago. The characters and voices you can choose from are pure cheese, similar in a way to Wizardry 8 (However on the whole that RPG is much better). Then there is the game itself. Wandering through monotonous realms slashing this and blasting that. Fundamentally the same system of levels and skills are in place in the previous installments. There is no depth to speak of, and I found that I had to force myself to keep playing after awhile due to mounting boredom.
There is nothing new here. And what few improvements that have been made should have been made to the series several years ago.

M&M9 - Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT waste your money on this title. Very dated graphics and load times absolutely cripple this game. This is 2002? Well this title looks as if it is right out of 1992! I have been playing for about 4 hours, totally bored. I swear half that time was waiting for load times. Mind you I am playing on a P4 with 64MB Nvidia card. Utter [junk]! Wait and buy Dungeon Seige and Warcraft3. My rating of one star is being kind.

RPG-ing back in the 90s

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: April 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Don't bother with this game. The games looks like it came strait from the 90s: only 800x600! To make things even worse: The story is very, very bad. There is no atmosphere whatsoever. And tehre are some nasty bugs in it too.
So with great games like Morrowind, DungeonSiege, Arx Fatalis and Neverwinter Nights being released in the next two or three months, MMIX won't survive...

Backward Compatibility

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Might and Magic IX is one of the few games on the market that is playable on older computers. The game is playable on a Pentium II; consequently, the game has outdated graphics. As somewho who has an 5 year old computer and refuses to buy a new one, I appreciate the fact that at least one company is still making games that I can play.

Simply Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a long time fan of Might and Magic all I can say is what a disappointment! Bad graphics, terrible game introduction, weak character class choices, poor fighting system, weak NPC interaction, blurry fonts that hurt the eyes, can't see hits against monsters, out-dated paper doll style character inventory, poor monster animation particularly during fighting, too few sound cues...

The game plays like an early beta or alpha version. It feels clunky and unfinished, even the introduction to the game is uninspiring making you want to uninstall rather then play! One star is too many.

well its still M&M which is good but no real improvements

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

MM9 has a lot of the features I felt made the MM series good, the skill and character development, numerous quests, diverse monsters, a few good puzzles and a decent main plot. On the down side the motion is choppy, particularly when a town or area first loads and you wish to turn around. The graphics are nothing to write home about, its about 4 years behind the times in that respect. They took out doing alchemy, which I enjoyed, cuts down on the number of skills and made the inventory items boring to look at. Some of the quests are buggy. You have to be careful to save before completeing a quest because the game does not always register a successful completion and then you may be unable to complete the game. It ok but not great. That said its still leagues better than Pool of Radiance.

Bottom Line: The game is fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As someone who has been a hobbyist/gamer for 20 years now - you don't have to tell me what graphics are, or how games have advanced from the days of the Commodore Vic 20/64 or the Apple IIe machines until today.

To this day I still insist no finer RPG series to date (and this includes 2002 releases thus far) rivals the series called "The Bard's Tale".

Anyway, if you rate a game by graphics so critically - then hey, you are a casual gamer and no more than that. The graphics in M&M IX aren't stellar by far, but beyond saying "man the graphics are disappointing" that's it. They have little impact on your gaming experience if you are truly into RPG games and engross yourself in the actual game's content.

Some things I think are (to be blunt) "stupid" - 1) There is far too much idle walking time in the wilderness areas. You'll spend literally 2-5 minutes of actual time just walking to your destination. That's in a word: boring.

2) The interface is a bit more clumsy than I'd normally prefer. For example, the auto map has nothing labeled. So even after you visit, say the armor shop, its not like their's an icon on the map indicating it. So you have to wander around the town remembering where it is. I think that was silly how they did that. (What's the point of an auto map if it only gives you an "idea" of where to go, even after you been there?) also this is a petty thing, but it irks me...the game's save feature should be improved. It should save files and label them in real world time (in the game it will label the files with the date and time in the game world) AND when you die and it autostarts you back - it should reload the LATEST save file NOT just your latest autosave (which it currently does).

But the game other than that, is fun to play. The missions range vastly from simple...to VERY VERY challenging. I've died several times trying to complete some.

Its a good game. Not the best RPG, not the best graphics. But TRUE rpg fans can and will appreciate it.

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