Heroes of Might and Magic® 4: Complete

Dear God why did I listen to the reviews. The graphics and unit/building display is horrible, this alone makes the game a chore right from the start Ultimately feels like a dodgy clone to Heroes rather than a part of it and no where near as enjoyable Will put some more time into it but just not enjoying it

I have to say that after reading all of the reviews here, I was lead to believe the game detoured a lot from the standard HoMM formula, and I assumed everything else was just fine having seen some sparse screenshots over the years. Well, I finally played the game in 2020 for the first time and I was shocked as the intro begun as I was expecting the same quality from any Heroes and Might and Magic game being familiar with all of them except the fourth. "Mongo... great barbarian from the north", as it begins to show poorly drawn artwork. Eventually it got to "Spazz Maticus" showing a picture which has to be seen to believed, and I burst out in laughter. It didn't end there, the poorly drawn and animated 3D models as they distort across the battle field keep on giving. Has nobody seen the trolls or the peasants? They flail and distort as they walk around, it's not normal. All in all the core gameplay is basically the same as HoMM 1/2/3 but with a lot of quality of life improvements (more interactive heroes, caravans, moveable units on over world etc)--but the GRAPHICS and animations were rushed and done so poorly. And the last expansion intro sequence??? WHAT WAS THAT!!! I could barely believe this was a Heroes game. Apparently all of the people in the office were sacked except two, so the two expansions were done by two people and a bunch of contractors which explains "Mongo" and "Spazz Maticus". Rob King of course did top notch work and the impending bankruptcy had nothing to do to affect the quality of the OST. The game is fine but the graphics and story are RIDICULOUS, I can't believe nobody has mentioned this. SPAZZ MATICUS, REALLY??? This is one of the biggest meme games I've ever played that masquerades as a HoMM.

It changed everything that made the franchise great. Stay away from this game, it's awful.

Heroes of HoMM4 is a farce! It was one of the causes of 3DO's bankruptcy. Instead of keeping their winning recipe in HoMM3, they cloned the idea of the game called Disciple (which is tedious and you really don't want to play the game again after you finish a campaign)... bad idea which resulted in this crap. Ubisoft then returned a bit towards HoMM3's idea but included annoying and irritating as well as completely useless 3D graphics in HoMM5 and 6... both games sucks compared to HoMM3 or Legendary Heroes: Fallen Enchantress. :( I feel that HoMM4 is not part of the same series... it's basically Disciple in the Might & Magic universe, and sucks because 3DO changed their recipe for a bad one instead of keeping theirs.

i tried all hom and def the worst