Might and Magic® 7: For Blood and Honor®

MM7 is an excellent game, I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 for two reasons: - I liked MM6 more - There are some bugs (or features?) that make this game a little annoying. Some of these: My party setup was Knight/Monk/Paladin/Sorcerer. At my first run I did not learn the bow skill in the first map, Emerald Isle and I could not pick it up later in the game, none of the weapon shops offered the skill. I had to restart the game, learn the skill for each of my characters except for one, (because I did not have the money) and to my greatest surprise at my second run I was able to pick up the skill at the weapon shops outside of Emerald Island. I had a similar problem with the spells. No matter how many times I've visited the master or the paramount guild of water I could not by the Loyd's Beacon spell - which made travelling a bit annoying. (Especially since half of the cities cannot be visited by Town Portal. Btw. the Town Portal spell is also a bit hard to obtain since it needs a master level in water magic, which comes a bit late in the game.) MM7 is nonlinear, which is basically a good thing but on the other hand it can lead to some problems. I took the champion promotion a bit late in the game (Win 5 battles in the Arena on Knight level). Since the monsters are generated based on the actual levels of your character, I often had to fight dragons and titans which was a bit overkill, I had to try it several times. I have read it among the other reviews that you need a cleric to complete the game - as I found out a cleric is indeed useful for a particular quest since only he can learn grandmaster body magic which saves your characters for eradication. I did not have one, and I had to try the quest several times. Since I had a Paladin who had a grandmaster mace skill I was able complete the quest since he could paralyze the problematic monster - but it was still annoying. Despite the above MM7 is a good game, I can only recommend it for trying.

The last great installment of the Heroes of might and Magic Series. Played this wayyy back in 99, and dumped endless hours into this one. For its time, there was nothing like HOMM 7, and if you can get past the graphics, it is a huge world with memorible locations, cool monsters and fun lore. The deat of New World Computing by 3d0 begins with this game, which was very good for being a sequel to HOMM 6 forced out a YEAR later by money grubbing suits. It was very sad to see the studio close- the world and lore behind HOMM is as deep as Game of Thrones (its true), 19 years in the making. If you havent played this classic, you should atleast pick it up to remeber a great development studio. This is undoubtedly the last solidly great installment of the series. I give it four gold Shoggoths and two silver Nightgaunts. The magic is cool, the locations are memorable, the monsters are scary. Character grinding is rewarding and fun, quest acess easy and understandable. For 1999 it was absolutely brilliant.

great game!!! very entertaining!!!

One of most epic RPG of that time

An even better game than Might and Magic VI, which I originally thought impossible. Play this game!