Posted on: July 25, 2017

jakub.959

Games: 512 Reviews: 32

Beginning of the fall

This was the worst of classical Might and Magic. Compared to VI and VII this is... blasphemy. Light and dark magic, once elite skills that were accessible only to the most powerful magic users become starting skill...which of course lead to neutering it. You no longer chose race and class...you want to be goblin knight? Sorry, you can either be a knight or a troll, or a vampire. Apparently being a troll is know a carrier, same with a vampire. In time you may chose to recruit a dragon in your party, of course, dragons are so powerful that if you recruit it you gain so great mid-game boost that game becomes boring. At the same time they do not follow with the punch, I mean if you can recruit a dragon why not recruit an angel, or a behemoth? Why not turn your team into mythical powerhouse considering that we actually fight against world ending event? You do not build your party from the start, instead, you recruit them in inns. At the same time this game is still classical M&M, story is fun, exploration is interesting and world is filled with wonder. I do not see any reason to play it other than morbid curiosity, kind of like watching car crash. If you crave true M&M just pick up part VI or VII. Game is simply mediocre, everything good is nothing but vestige of old games, it is not utter disaster like part IX but... just do yourself a favour and pick older ones.

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Posted on: December 18, 2019

donelton

Games: 84 Reviews: 3

Really enjoyable

Lots of great elements making this a good sequel to MM7, but late game can become really easy unless you activly choose to not have certain characters in your group.

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Posted on: May 20, 2025

Jaix159

Verified owner

Games: 59 Reviews: 2

Something wrong with GoG version.

The game is awensome but there is something wrong with GoG version. Maybe we have better light effects of mobs and spells in this one, but old CD version have sharper textures of items on the ground, and what more important, differences between mobs of one kind in their colour scheme. The weakest one, with worst stats, had green colur pattern (for example triton), medicore had blue colour (triton warriors), and the best of the kind had red colour pattern (like triton crusaders). In the GoG version, mobs of one kind always have one color scheme (tritons - blue, pirtes - red, skeletons - red etc.) no matter if they are the strongest or the weakest mobs of their kind. It quite confusing, and destroys immersion of the game. Because of this disadvantages (and bugs like crashes everytime when you eneter the last location with sound on) I must give this version 3/5 rate.

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Posted on: October 2, 2012

jedlin

Games: 13 Reviews: 1

My first Might and Magic - and the best!

I took time and really old notebook to find and play this awesome RPG game. I love Might and Magic universe, I love RPG and I did not know that there is connection like this! I really enjoyed whole game, game mechanism, world and story (even when the story sounds soooo familiar - what do you think Silver surfer?). I recommend to anybody who is familiar with Might and Magic universe and has a weakness for RPG and plenty of time.

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Posted on: April 2, 2014

RyuMyoto

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Games: 14 Reviews: 1

Practically the best classic RPGs.

I was for introduced to rpg's through this game from a good friend of mine. He had it on his computer which we would both spend hours, to days eventually into weeks just messing around with it. To this day, this game had always been a pleasant and exciting to play. After playing M&M 8 I instantly flew and played the others at a later date. Though all exciting with their own different play types, M&M 8 is something that separates itself from the rest. More races to choose from, more freedom of choice, and even though the story is rather short and to the point which isn't as elaborate as most would want, the game has plenty of side quests which make the gaming experience lengthy and worth the exploration.

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