Hero's Hour

Solid mechanics and a definite throwback to the Heroes of Might and Magic series, with a fun twist on the combat. Give it a shot!

i like the game and how the turns work

First time playing during week 4 I keep getting errors... reload a earlier save and eventually those also give an error. Otherwise the game seems really cool.

"Hero's" Hour hints at "Heroes of Might and Magic" in the title. Unfortunately, while the game does capture the HoMM flair, it ultimately remains disappointing in comparison. For, it delivers little more than a skirmish mode, and a wildly reduced set of features. Gone are the story-driven campaigns, gone the epic soundtrack, gone the more interesting factions, gone any improved mechanics, gone are balanced units. And, let's face it, gone is tactical combat. The way combat is handled may look like a selling point in theory, but plays horrible in practice. You got very little control. Forget strategically placing your troops, optimizing the use of abilities, et cetera. The battlefield is a hot mess, where your units treat your orders as mild suggestions. In the end, the best "strategy" is to seek superiority in number; have the quantity (not the quality). The better units make little sense with what little control you got, since they end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, 9 times out of 10. If multiplayer skirmish matches are the only thing you are interested in, and what's stopping you from playing the original HoMM titles in multiplayer are the notoriously long rounds during combat, then perhaps this title might be an option, for it speeds up just that, even though at the cost of unit control. However, for anything beyond this one multiplayer scenario, you can easily skip Hero's Hour. You won't miss a thing.

SUMMARY: Whilst close to Heroes of Might and Magic in the map style, the feel is also similar to Warlords III (1998). Heros Hour fails to meet the graphics, play-ability, user-interface, story (there is none) and ability to affect the outcome of battles (strategically & tactically) set by these great series in in 1998 and 2006. CONCLUSION If you want a turn based map, then go with Heros of Might and Magic, or King's bounty. If you want real time pixelated combat, go with Warlords. Either way you'll be pay far less for easily 50 times the content. This game fails at both, and exhausts it's lack luster offering after about 30 minutes of game play, with about $3 worth of content at best. RANT The pixel graphics are poorly implemented with animations simply squashing them vertically to indicate attacks and unit being blobs. The interface is minimal with the city being an ugly confusing mess, saved by the lack of content and a few tab-menus to take actions. Did I mention there's no story at all? A brief lexicon of units and faction, but no story here at all. There is minimal battle control, you can place units to try get some ranged attacks in before the general melee but there are no lines of battle, or other elements that give your decisions meaning. After 50+ battles only once did my tactical choices make a difference (held back reinforcements and blasted the entire map a few times). POST I have genuinely no idea why it's getting such high ratings. But full respect to other people having a different experience!