Heroes of Might and Magic® 4: Complete

Terrible art direction, a bland UI, bland sound design, embarassing animations, simple hex grid replaced with terrible non-hex one... It's hard to see what has improved.

HoMM4 is so different from the other previous games. Heroes now can fight,more items to equip, different battlefiel view but the creatures are ugly and looks bizarre. Yes, 2nd game has cartoonish style but 4th is just.... wrong. Gameplay so soo different then the other like retaliation, siage defence, and fighting heroes.Also,most of the castle musics (not all. some map musics are soo cool). Shortly, die hard Heroes fans must skip it, other turn-based strategy fans should try. But I don't think they love this game.

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.