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Best strategy game around.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Since Christmas, my father, brother, and I have been taking turns playing this nearly every day. The graphics are gorgeous, especially the towns, and combat options are much more diverse and varied than HOMM2. The turn based aspect means that your moves aren't rushed, and multiplayer supports hotseat play on one system. No complaints whatsoever.

Good but buggy.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's an excellent turn based strategy game with a lot of replayability, marred by a few minor bugs and performance issues that 3DO never did fix. (There's a few spells in the game I've still never seen!) For a trun 5 star rated game, try the new HOMM 3.

The Best of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I can see no reason why anyone should not buy this game. It is great. It is turn-based strategy at it's best. Ever since King's Bounty, games in this series have gotten better and better. This game has unlimited replayability due to it's random nature and multiplayer capabilities. In fact, you can multiplayer with just one computer and take turns if you don't want to play online. This game has gotten hours of play every day since I got it, and I don't see anyone getting bored with it anytime soon.

Don't play this game before you have to be somewhere.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

One of the only games that I've become truly addicted to. It's very easy to say, "I'm going to sit down and play for half an hour and then get back to work." but 4 hours later, you'll find yourself saying, "Just one more turn! I'm about to get Death Knights!"

Truly spectacular

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Heroes of Might & Magic 1 and 2 for the Mac, and enjoyed both of them. So naturally I rushed out to buy the 3rd installment. And I doesn't disappoint at all. The graphics, while not dramatically improved from the last game, are beautiful. The gameplay is very easy to pick up and learn. The new hero types are a vast improvement, along with all the different army types that accompany them. The heroes you control take on more personality finally. They have short descriptions, and are able to advance up levels as in RPG's. In campaign mode, you are sometimes able to carry your best heroes over from game to game. If you enjoy the Heroes of Might & Magic series, you can't go wrong picking up the 3rd one....it takes the best things from the other two and expands upon them, while adding lots of new features, army types, artifacts, and terrains.

Best Computer game I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've never played a computer game before where every part of it is fun. Usually games are mostly fun, but have a few boring parts you have to put up with. In Heroes 3, everything you do is a delight.

Just one more turn and I'll go to bed...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's as much fun as the earlier HOMM games. That means: lots of fun. Actually, it's even more fun. There are more artifacts, more places to visit, more heroes, better graphics, and more complicated town types. This is a solid step forward from the previous game. But it keeps that "oh, just one more turn and I can build this!" addictive thing going.

The Mac port seems about the same quality as the HOMM2 port. It doesn't have gaping holes like HOMM2, which had a couple of notoriously broken features. On the other hand, HOMM2 never crashed on me and this game has already crashed several times. I I hope we get the two expansion packs soon. The expansion packs restore some of the critters I missed most from HOMM2, like the phoenix.

I have only one complaint: the vampires don't go "BLEH!" when they hit now. Aw.

>>>>HEROES ta-daaaaaa.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Heroes threeeis the first heroes eye got.I liked Heroes threee. The graphics are really good. At this place called the stables it has horse heads two millimters high and they move! There is a different type of music for each type of terrain and also when you battle someone, it's not just a terrain, there are dozens of different objects there can be and it's actually the type of terrain you are wandering around on. There are dozens of monsters as well. There is seven monsters in each town and each town has it's own terrain. However the idea of having all your guys travel with your characters is stooopid because thay don't even appear on the terrain!And all yor bildings are inside a small town which looks like yor fort/hall/whatever which iz maybe 8 times the size ofa heroe. The campaign is 0k but the first level is way 2 e-z & the 2nd is way 2 uuuurgh aaagh ooof dead. Ds game is 0k/fine/whatever so if you like kinda dumb games this is for kinda dum pursen so dude not recommended haha

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Heroes 3 buy it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game i have ever played in my life. The music is good and the graphics-though not cutting edge are very pleasing. The gameplay is the best. I have fun when playing by myself, with friends on the same computer, and with people on the internet using the free program Gameranger. I only have two complaints. 1. it crashes too much, luckily there is an autosave feature. 2. no map editor for mac version. But overall i love it and you should buy it NOW!

Extremely addictive(in a good way)!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As a frequent computer gamer, I am always looking for the next best thing... games can be left by the wayside when they become stale.

This may be one of those next things. I played the original M&M, and the second Heroes installment, to my great enjoyment. Fortunately, this newest version does not disappoint players of those older games. In fact, when I first acquired this, it was all I could to tear myself away after several hours.

There are several strong selling points to this game: 1) The audio-visual elements are stellar. From the introductory movie, to smallest details, the visuals are excellent eye-candy. The music is very good: the limited palette of HOMM2 has been replaced with different music for each hero type and castle type. Also, the music is subtle enough to be entertaining even when turned relatively low. 2) Many game options are available. The scenario option from HOMM2 has been expanded... there are now multiple options, and successful completions allow for even more options. Multiplay is again allowed, a very popular option recently. 3) Game play is customizable. The complaint I had with HOMM2 was that even the easiest setting had a bit too much challenge - this game is much more honest in its difficulty rating. Of course, there are always those experts who want the toughest challenge, and they are not left out. Also, the game success scenarios are more varied than ever, including the new "grail" variation on the "capture the artifact" goal. 4) Lots of heroes, with different "advantages" ranging from extra resources to resistance to spells. 5) Most artifacts must be placed on the hero's body, 1 per slot, and there is only limited carrying room. No more super-heroes with 50 artifacts! There is more incentive to "share the wealth", especially for skill-specific artifacts(increasing Necromancy by 5% doesn't mean anything if you don't have that skill). 6) If I haven't covered it already, it's just plain fun.

I would recommend this game to anyone, especially if you enjoyed HOMM2.

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