Posted on: September 19, 2014

igneous83

Games: 441 Reviews: 8

Excellent if unchanged

If you liked and sixth and seventh installments in this series, you will like this one as well. It has many of the same faults and the same virtues. The main difference between it and the previous two titles is that you only create a single character: all other members of your party must be recruited. I actually liked this feature though I imagine some will see it as a minus.

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Posted on: November 13, 2014

Plevel

Games: 245 Reviews: 1

Best of them all

This one is simply the best one from the might & magic series.

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Posted on: September 11, 2016

SkeleTony

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Games: 463 Reviews: 13

Suprisingly Great CRPG

When this game was first released, and for about 14 years afterwards, I had little interest in playing it. The 'race as class' thing reminded me of OD&D - a game system I absolutely hate- and the 'Create one PC and recruit the rest' thing was at the time starting to get on my nerves. But I bought it on GOG with the idea that maybe there was some fun to be had if I found myself really bored with no other games to play. Boy was I wrong. For starters after playing this for a while I could understand why they went with the 'class = race and class' thing. It has a lot to do with how the skill and abilities system works with classes in the modern Might and Magic games. It makes a LOT more sense to me now that I understand the reasoning behind it. I won't waste space here with elaboration on this though. Play this game and you will see. And the 'Create one and recruit the rest' aspect, while I never hated such in any RPGs I have come to really appreciate in this game (Plus there is a custom add-on script thing which you can download from Greyface's M&M page which allows you to create all of your party members). One reason is that dragons...are unfortunately way overpowered and being able to create one as your primary PC would have made the game hard to enjoy. At least this way you have to go achieve some things before being able to recruit a dragon. Sure the 'recruit most of your party' aspect, as in most RPGs which use this - allows you to exploit and get absurdly powerful characters earlier than you should but really most people who play this (your typical average RPGer) will not even think of going on a near suicide run to be able to exploit healing temples and recruit a level 50 knight before their party is level 30. And so having this option does not really hurt anything. Running out of room here so I will end this a bit shorter than I would like.

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Posted on: January 24, 2017

nevasith

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Games: 271 Reviews: 21

One of my favourite games ever!

I remember when I was much younger I bought it in one of the local shops. At first I got killed by pirates, later by guards... But some time later, as I got better (at finding NPCs) I realised this game has an insane potential - and the save files are easy to edit, thus my main character became a dragon. Story is ok, perhaps nothing super epic, but it's good - and by today's standard it's more than good taking how boring many modern games are - plot wise. The really remarkable part of this game however is the mechanics. Offers incredible freedom including flight, unique powers and races that normally represent monsters that get killed by heroes.

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Posted on: June 3, 2017

asi.950

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Games: 380 Reviews: 4

Third best of the newer titles

Worse than MM6 and MM7, and feels unfinished. Balancing, if that's important to you, is basically nonexistant. There are Mods out there, but most change up just a little too much for my taste.

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