Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete

First off: The Game is old and sometimes a bit clunky. BUT! It's still a great game and one of THE classics when it comes to turn based strategy games. 1. Gameplay : The basics namely: Moving around, fighting, recruiting, upgrading the city, looting & adventuring are fairly easy to understand - though require some time to understand on a more advanced level (Where to move, fighting strategy, economy etc.). So it follows the "Easy to learn - hard to master" motto. Factions: The factions are pretty well balanced but every faction has different playstyles and focusses on different aspects. Whether it has a slightly advantage for magic, ranged or meele units depends on the faction & type of hero you have. Though you are not forced to only focus on one aspect only. 2:Graphics: Very nice graphics considering its release date. While they reused some graphics from their older games (For example Might and Magic VI: Mandate of Heaven) it doesn't look "ripped off" - but rather enhances the nostalgic feelings in case you did play one of their games. (And since it belonged to them anyway it can't even be "ripped off" anyways). 3. General: This game is very fun to play, still working - thanks to GOG - on Windows 10 and replayable multiple times. If you like turn based strategy - At least give it a try. You'll find yourself happily playing many hours.

This is one of the greatest games of all time (GOAT), but you really need to play it with the HD Mod and HotA updates. There is an active community developing both. I think you just use them with this purchased install folder. HotA allows an active server for multiplayer games and simultaneous turns (until humans fight the first time in the scenario). The HD Mod allows several resolution options that let you make use of greater screen space than people had in 1999. I'm actually hoping to create my own turn-based strategy game for mobile, largely from being inspired by this game. It's that good.

I think is the best game from every childhood

RIsky game: Seriously addictive. The wictims ofthen mumble: Just one more turn, and I will finish.

If you read my review to Heroes of Might & Magic (HoMM) 2 Gold, I can make it short: This is basically the same game but even better, while it has more difficult campaigns. The story plays when Catherine Ironfist becomes queen of Erathia and has to fight against the "devils" (or rather Kreegans) to restore peace in Erathia. Well, the gameplay, as said before, is quite the same. Again, one commands heroes that run around with creatures to collect resources, explore the map, fight other creatures, fight other heroes, conquer towns, sometimes defend own town, etc. - much like in HoMM 2. If I remember it correctly, here level limits for heroes were introduced and heroes could be taken across campaign levels. Actually, it was my bad skill in this why I stopped playing HoMM 3 after a while. There's a mission where one has several heroes (four or eight) in the second campaign, and that became too much for me at that time since I was used to do everything with a single hero. Well, the improvements over HoMM 2: There are nine town types now (eight without addons), with even more buildings per town. There are more objects to find on the maps, in render graphics. The ambient sounds are also better. There are more spells, more creatures, more artifacts, more victory conditions, etc. - there are also more maps and campaigns! So the game becomes more complex but not so complicated that one really needs to read the manual. To me, this is still the best of its genre (turn-based-strategy). HoMM 4 and 5 are also good games, but 5 is annoying to always adjust the view so one sees everything, while 4 concentrated more on different aspects, making also a very good game, only slightly worse to me than HoMM 3. There might be much more to write about HoMM 3 but I suggest you just to play it or - if you don't want to buy it directly - test the demo version. Tip: You might also want to install "In The Wake of the Gods", an inofficial freeware addon for HoMM 3 (see the thread in the forum for details).