King's Bounty: The Legend

Art is nice, world looks cool, but it'd impossible to find things on the adventure map, no way to adjust camera that I could find that made tyhe game navigable.

I admit it! I'm an HOMM fanatic. Have played all 6. Have 4 of them on this monster machine ((III-VI) 6core AMD processor, 12G mem., GTX 660 video w/2G). This is a very good clone of that franchise! Good turn-based combat and colorful graphics. The story's decent. Not great...but enough fun that I've played through twice already! Because of the backtracking, prepare to spend about 40 hours with the game. Not bad when you get on sale on GOG.

I like the games but they're pretty damn flawed. Some areas just feel empty. This one just bugged out and a ton of shops/NPCs do not respond anymore. I can't progress. I'm not re-installing 5GB on my SSD 10 times to test out different solutions. This is unacceptable.

I have played several homm games and have loved and played out all of them. I was looking for a game that I could play off and on like the other homm I have player prior. I have been playing this for a few days and I just can't bring myself to play it any longer. I find it dull and the game play is slow with the quests confusing, directionless, and pointless.When you are not in combat it feels and looks exactly like warecraft 3 solo. You are constantly turning angels to get a better view and every mob you have to run away from while attempting to click it to see if you are any where near ready to take it on and it gets wearing when you have to do this every time. Take a wrong turn? Congrats you were just wiped out by an impossible group. You can either save the game every 5 minutes or take it in the chops. If this is what is considered challenging, I'll pass. I read all the reviews and got excited based on my past homm but I didn't even make it past a week of light play.

What it has in beautiful graphics and seeming variety, it lacks in most other aspects. The gameplay is extremely repetitive and tedious, combat is a very linear affair, dialogues are unimportant as all hell, the story as well. Gave it a try due to liking turn-based games, seemed like it would have an interesting twist - but nope.