Might and Magic® 6-pack Limited Edition

I acquired and own a boxed copy of this very same game title within the last 5 years. Before that purchase I had only acquired and played Might & Magic II on an Intel 386SX processor back in the mid-1980s. Although my copy puts all six titles on an optical disc, it is the very same as what GOG is offering here for download. If you want to experience M&M from its very inception this is the one to get! I bought mine for just that reason because I had missed so much of the series from too busy at jobs. These are classics worthy of perpetual ownership. Prepare for some hand mapping with graph paper with a few of the earlier ones. They start with 4-colour CGA graphics and watch the progressive improvement to EGA/VGA and Super VGA modes. Be patient and get your party developed. Many of these are original MS-DOS titles that GOG has running under a DOS-BOX emulator. These ARE NOT REMASTERED versions spruced up for a purely Windows OS environment. If your CPU is too fast proper code timing becomes an issue with some of the earlier ones. In that case I recommend you select an 80386-25MHz motherboard with CPU and all ISA slots from off of eBay and put together an MS-DOS build for best compatibility. Some of the earlier M&M titles were designed for processor speeds of 4.77 MHz and 8088 CPUs. So even 25MHz might be a bit too fast when the original game title is not running under DOS-BOX. In that case you should run "moslo.com" which is a utility to further slow down games running in MS-DOS environments. I got my copy of "moslo.com" from off a Space Quest 6 CD-ROM disc. You likely can find it on the web. Just be sure to have it virus checked by right-clicking the downloaded file and selecting Scan. After you play these six titles move on to the next titles until you reach: Heroes of Might & Magic which I have purchased from GOG. This is the next major saga of conquest, glory, and fame!

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this game is amazing!! the story is fun, great twist in the middle and is just crazy how much it can absorb you into it. i grew up with this game, my parents had it on disk and i used to play it every day after school when i finished my homework. The one thing is the disk game had some bugs that were extremely fun to utilise like the never ending experience quest and the never ending chest of money but i found that they are not in this, or i screwed them up. i enjoyed having later runs and using these bugs to shoot dragons and quite often it was just silly things you do on a run that come straight after finishing the game. In no way does the lack of bugs hurt the game but did feel a little sad that new players don't get to experience that thrill of finding a hidden cheat. I recommend this game so much!! I go to bed and have the game playing in my mind. i have played this game maybe 50-60 times and still come back to it. this game is an rpg must-have, it has even aged quite gracefully over the years due to its very stylised art design and great game mechanics. TLDR; rpg must-have, aged great, get it!

These 6 games being in one collection is like a dream. As many reviewers have accurately stated, the amount of gameplay contained within these games for such a price would have been virtually unheard of at the time of the release of each title. I've logged at least 24 hours in World Of Xeen, and I'm still not even close to completion. These games (along with NWN) should never be forgotten under any circumstance. They're some of the best RPG's ever made, and even some of the newer games can't even compare to the amount of detail that went into them. It would be a shame for anyone to pass up such an amazing experience for the fact that they're DOSBox-based or not so graphically-inclined, because at the time they were basically cutting edge. I love this. I literally want to stay in this era of gaming forever thanks to GOG.

Review of the 6th part in the series, haven't tried previous yet- I always end at the one only: It is one of the games that you will play few times and each time differently. I would advise not to look on manuals as it would be shame. Just get in and play. You may die few times(ok - many), but the challenge will keep you entertained as it is well balanced. As one of them said, the game has little of story, but it isn't that important - the dungeon crawling and developing is amazing. Better than in 7th part, which introduced limitations(shame). I have had this game on CDs, so I have no achievements here yet. But I will get there, don't ya worry!