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Very, very sad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: April 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I must say at the outset that my wife an I are huge Might and Magic fans, playing every one of the previous games to completion several times, which makes our experience with M&M IX even sadder.

It is ugly, the user interface is very poor, and much of the original game has simply been left out. For example: the map no longer allows annotations, the map simply shows everything immediately instead of encourgaging exploring by showing only what has been explored, there are no icons to let you know what spells are running, you can't tell if you are hurting the monster (the hit point graph is missing), you can't drop items just delete them forever, you can't fly, half of the spells are gone, the world is tiny, you are extremely constrained as to where you can go, combat feedback is weak, direct manipulation of objects is weak, the inventory system is weaker, the card game is missing, many of the skills are missing, use of voice is weaker, and on and on. Take my advice -- save your money and play Might and Magic VII again -- it is simply a much, much better game.

MM IX: WORST GRAPHICS AND INTERFACE I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is boring, juvenile, and visually disappointing. I have been playing RPG games since Cinema Ware first came out with 'Defender of the Crown' (OK, most of you readers weren't even born yet)and have watched role-playing games advance through 'Wizardry' to 'Eye of the Beholder' to 'Might and Magic' to 'Daggerfall' (the best ever!) Somewhere after that, RPG games seriously lost it, too much emphasis on shooter/3D technology and inane conversation , and not enough on characters and plot. MMIX is a sad example of both the effects of this change in direction, and 3DO's tendency to cheap-out the production costs.
Role-playing is about the character(s): their personalities and skills, what they eat, wear, guilds or careers, loyalties, where they live,who they're friends with. MMIX's 3D engine results in distorted,leering little trolls for supposedly human characters. Having no 'true' 3D was way better than the poor 3D graphics offered by MMIX.
MMIX combines the worst of simple-minded cross-hatch in the screen shooter, boring run around looking for trainer, and endless conversation with with vapid NPCs that I have encountered in 25 years of gaming. Buy something else.

Worst Might and Magic game I've played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Might and Magic 9 however is the worst I've played and I've played 3 through 7. I loved might and magic 6 with it's great graphics and music and interface. I liked 7, and I'm hoping to get 8.
I believe the worst part is that you only get TWO classes to choose from. Yes, two. A fighter and an "initiate"(mage). They eventually branch off offering two other choices but that's it. There are less skills and magic disciplines as well. The class variety was one of the best parts of the series.

The graphics are boring and bland with the occaisional decorations that you can't do anything with. I believe this game has the worst sky as well. Unlike 6 and 7 it doesn't move in anyway(clouds, etc) and is rather boring to look at. The music is awful, I listened to all of the songs and didn't hear even 20 seconds of sound I liked. The sound effects are alright but nothing special or imersive. The 3D engine they use is very poor in my opinion. NPCs in towns move stiffly and their faces look crudely "pasted on". They have no moving facial expressions though their bodies occasionally move. The inventory screen dropped from the great system from 6 and 7 to similar to might and magic 3,4,5 only not as pleasant. The voices are mostly stupid though there is an occasional funny line here and there.

Doors in this game are very poorly done. They automaticly close after about 5 seconds. This gets very annoying when you want to keep track of where you've been as the automap is already mapped out for each dungeon I'e been too and therefore of no help to the explore.

What next... Oh yes, you don't get a plain "attack button" you get an attack/use/open button and an attack/shoot missle button and a use button. You usually can't attack nothing and you can't attack people. No longer do you have to worry about the temptation of killing the peasants wandering by. You can't. You can shoot them with arrows all you want but they don't even blink(ever). When you attack you don't even see any blood or any responce other than a little popup window at the bottom that says you did a little damage.

There are few items on the ground anywhere in the 3 dungeons I've wandered around in and the treasure is usually worthless skills. You'll accumulate tons of them though you won't be able to use most of them since once you use them you don't need them anymore.

Enemies look alright, occasionally. The skeletons look like flat skeletons, the zombies look like not quite as flat zombies. Dragon Flies are the best I've seen so far though they are quite hard to see among the flat trees.

The only GOOD thing I can say about this game is that you can finally swim in water. Yes, that's the only good thing I can say about it. Even the Loading screen is boring, just a map with a tiny ship sailing back and forth a couple of inches.

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...

THIS IS THE DEATH OF MIGHT AND MAGIC!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Why Jon Van Caneghem would put his name to this is anybody's guess. The graphics were created by 3rd graders... I'm not kidding! What can you say about a game that even screws up the fonts? How about the black ocean with clipping errors... The characters are just plain ugly. It is obivious that the graphics, level design, and that incredible opening cinematic couldn't have been created by any real game company. I was struck dumb by how incredibly BAD this product is. Even the install program glitches. The ONLY thing New World Computing did right on this game was the box cover. Very nice box cover.

Now for the other reviews on this site that gave this title a 5 star rating: they were certainly planted hoping some fools would like the box cover and remember the quality of gameplay in years past and buy this title... my advice, wait for more real reviews before you waste your money. What a [bad] effort!

A sad end to a great series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played all of the Might and Magic games over the years and do not believe I can really express how awful this game is. Stay away! You will be much better off with Wizardry VIII, a fine example of how a series should be ended.

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.

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.

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