Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete

Played it as a kid, played it some more, played it when I had enough of Homeworld, installed it on a usb stick and played it at work - instead of work, played it when I should have studied for TMA, played it instead of sleep. If you ask me, you should give it a try. I played it a bit over the years, and just about to install it again, and cannot wait to play it again. TMA deadline is 2 weeks away, so I go and play it a bit.

My husband and I used to play it while we were dating, and we still play this versions the most.

Pretty much everyone knows how great this game is --- it's been out for a while and people still play it ---more than even the later versions --- to put it simply, it is a classic. So I'm just writing this to remind people that the replay/play possiblities are endless by using the very robust and easy to use map randomizer. There are enough options and so on to make amazingly excellent and epic skirmishes with a few clicks of a mouse. This is the real deal.

Heroes of Might and Magic I was a nice game but it lacked a lot and felt kind of empty. HoMM2 raised the bar significantly but HoMM3 made it even further. Excellent heroes features system, artifacts finally reflect body parts of the hero (in HoMM2 you could e.g. wear two helmets), extremely rich maps where there are no empty and irrelevant places - all of this makes the game a really wonderful strategy. I still often play it (usually with Heroes 3 HD mod - support for 1440x900 resolution rocks!) even though I have HoMM4 on a shelf and tried HoMM5. Maybe MMH6 will finally meet HoMM3's greatness but this game really survived the test of time. In HoMM3 you spend time on strategy, not on looking for resources hidden behind the mountains as in HoMM5... I recommend it to everyone looking for a great strategy, not necessarily with high system requirements.

This is simply a perfect game. And I'm not really the type of guy who's into those old school strategy rpg games. But this is simply so good that it would be madness not picking it up. It can offer you thousands of hours of fun. LAN games with friends is possible and you can even make your own maps with a really great and simple editor that anybody can use. Buy this game, seriously... 5/5 stars!!