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Great game for the money!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great version of the series although I have been told the new one is AWESOME! If you like Heroes and just want play, get it. If you don't mind spending the money, get the new one if your computer can handle it.

Knock off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: May 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The amazon company sends you the wrong product. They send you a cheap Ubisoft product when it is suppose to be 3DO. So you cannot get expansions for the ubisoft software for this game. Amazon needs to send the correct 3DO version of this game as shown and told to be.

A disappointing sequel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: April 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Heroes IV was a much awaited sequel of one of the best strategy games ever, Heroes III. The latter, by the way, is a golden game in terms of gameplay. It's so much fun that it was the primary game I was playing for years.

Heroes IV, though features improved graphics and such, lacks any gameplay fun whatsoever. I gave it 2 stars only because I assume that some people can actually enjoy it, despite my opinion. The AI (computer) is not challenging at all. It simply sits in its castles, rarely attacking you, and your whole game consists in basically exploring the map, fighting the monsters (not the AI) until you have enough forces to break the AI in its castles, where he sits accumulating troops. Not much fun if you know how Heroes III feels, where AI constantly challenges you, is aggressive, attacks your in your own castles, etc.

For me, Heroes IV is much more boring because the AI is simply stupid, and AI was the main thing that made Heroes series so much fun to play. Some may say that graphics was not good in previous titles, but graphics were never an issue, i.e. it was always good enough.

In summary, Heroes IV has improved graphics and many new ideas, but poor gameplay (stupid, as if absent AI) and very few maps. If you enjoy turn-based strategies, buy Heroes III, you'll have fun. Of note, heroes V is coming up, and the main hope is that it will resemble heroes III in terms of gameplay.

I'll compare it to other non HoM games. (someone needs to)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was my first PC game ever, on;y 3 years latter did I finnaly get to own my own copy (last compy would have required too many pricy replacements & the install caused a tottal memory loss crash) I've played so many games in those between years, but they were all lacking heavily. This game makes other games boring fast because it offers MORE of everything, but it still has it's downsides. I agree with the pros, though I really don't like those annoying grids from earlier games. The cons for me were the amount of buildings you could create & the restrictions that went with them (you have to give up one type to another) & there just erentenough maps & campaignes. Luckily, the expansion packs should fix that nicely. The combat & magic sound FX were cute, but other games made me somewhat annoyed at the lack of BG music. & that's about it. Technicle support is available on Ubisoft forums, patches can be downloaded anywhere (for technicle fixes), & if you need them, cheats & walkthroughs are plentiful, but even the newest of newbies shouldn't need a walkthrough on this.

HOMM IV falls way short

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of this is not the US game. THey are selling a knock off UK version. Secondly it does not have Multi Player support, not even hot seat, even though it says it does. You can upgrade it py patching all the way to v3.0 and get multi but most places with the patch are pay sites since 3DO is no longer in business.

good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: September 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i've been a fan of this game series and it lives up to my expectations

This game rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i have played all of the heroes and this is overall the best one yet

Heroes of Might and Magic 4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It is a fun and extreemly captivating game that everyone should try.

The cold, hard fact is this game sucks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 24 / 30
Date: May 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off I would like to acknowledge the fact that this review comes very late after the fact since it's been many years now and 3DO and New World Computing are now dead. The secret, mysterious reason why these two game companies are dead may remain hidden, but one could guess that the poor design of Heroes 4 and Might and Magic 9 might be the reasons. But If there are by chance any buyers out there still pondering purchase of this game I'm about to give you the complete lowdown with no candy coating. You should also know that anyone who gives this guy 5 stars is either 1, a 3DO/New World Computing employee; 2, used to own stock in 3DO/New World Computing; or 3, are family members and friends of these people. You cannot possibly give this game more than 2 stars and here are the reasons why.

*No multiplayers support- This is a joke. These days only certain games can get by without multiplayer, i.e. Final Fantasy X and even Squaresoft went and foud a way to make FF multiplayer. This is inexcusable. There isn't even hotseat support???
*The people who are saying the graphics are 3d now are lying. The graphics are still 2d they are just drawn in an isometric view. The animations are horrible. Nowhere clos to the ones in heroes 3. The colors are all dull and drab for some reason and they have stupid fighting nimations. The Sorceress does s spinning roundhouse kick?
*The hero portraits of previous characters are resued from Heroes 3, they just have minor touches on them to make them look different. Some of the portraits are the same model shot from a different angles.
*There combat maps are smaller now and condensed into a narrow alley in the isometric view which begins your hero in a confined "corner". Instead of fighting on a wide open square you now fight on a diagonal, elongated hexagon.
*Siege warfare is a joke. There are no siege weapons. Players can punch through walls. Tower do not attack anymore.
*Towns no longer look like colorful themed paintings but rather look like boxy, card board cut outs with no detail or animation. Once agian, subdued and dull colors.
*Less monsters to fight with total. Building some mosnter dwelling restricts you from buying others.
*CGI cutscenes have now been replaced with poorly painted water color paintings. You don't even get to see multiple paintings in a slide show style. Just one washy, dull painting and some stupid narraration. Sometimes they use the same painting twice or thrice.
*Magic user heroes can get toasted in battle even at intermediate levels. I still favor heroes in battle but heroes should be tougher or have added defenses.
*No random map option means you have to play the same 12 stupid scenarios over and over again. One of the best things about Heroes 3 was the random map feature.
*Fewer towns than Heroes 3. Heroes 3 with expansion gave you 9 towns with tons of monsters. This game gives you only 5 towns. The Asylum is the dumbest idea I have ever heard of for a fantasy warfare game and the units are just a mish mosh of neutral units from other games.
*There are lots of stupid things here that just don't add up for a fanstay warfare game. Druids ridding zebras? White tigers living in a cave that is white with black stripes? Water Elementals produced in a Preserve/Rampart town? Dwarves( who traditonally abore magic) serving Wizards and Mages?
*The inferno and Necropolis towns have been mixed together? How can a necromancer cast a spell that damages all except undead when he has imps and cerebri in his army that are alive with flesh?

Well I could go on forever, but I wanted to make sure anyone who was eyeing this product before they decided to test the waters knew exactly wha they'd be getting in this game. The only good thing about this game period is bringing heroes into battle. This game certainly had the potential to be awesome but lacked too much and simply ignored simple things they could have carried over from the last game. You can tell this game was made on an uneasy budget unlike Heroes 3 which seemed like the programmers could make pretty much anything they wanted. Who knows why 3DO tanked? Spyware in their products or poor game design. Either way, I'd say unless the company that buys this liscense can make some big improvements then Heroes of Might and Magic will remain dead in the 90's, just like Grunge and Alternative music.

This game is one that u should not look forward 2

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 33
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan over heroes 3 but this game has its pros and cons. For example There IS NO RANDOM MAP GENERATOR!!!!!!If they made a platinum edition for this game like heroes 3 and also INCLUDED A RANDOM MAP GENERATOR! then i would run and buy it in a heartbeat. O AND ANYONE WHO HELPED MAKE THIS GAME MIGHT HAVE READ THIS REVIEW U SHOULD GET UP AND PUT ON WAT I PREFERED AND SO MANY OTHERS DID 2.

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