Might and Magic® 9

First of all, I have played all of them, yes even going back to MMI all those years ago. I'm looking at the retail box of MMIX on my shelf as I type this. Makes me wonder what would have been if they had been able to finish the game, instead of publish and hope it saves the company. Such a great license, so much lore, to end with a whimper instead of a roar... a waste. Buy the other 8, and avoid this one. Save yourself...

It worked well on Windows 7 (it did crash every once in a while but I dont expect much on an old game). Windows 8 was such a huge hassle to get it to work but it did work for a while. Windows 10 it has not worked at all. I did get an incident/request submitted but they were not able to resolve the issues. I get the small window for a quick second then it closes out no matter what compatibilty settings or other settings I choose.

good games although graphics a bit bad. but who cares...

Might & Magic series is so fun and funny. I always loved playing it back in the day and I still do today. It made me giggle with the faces of our heroes on the hud. I also had a lot of fun saving the game before attacking a villager just to see them all get all angry faced and attack me. haha. Good times. For the time, the graphics were okay, nothing special but it did give that 3d exploration feel and I loved how free and open the game was to explore. Lots of story, humor and action. I collected a lot of gold from corpses of orcs and traveled the lands. Great adventures we had. lol It worked well on my 24mb computer. For some reason, looking back, I felt like there were more details to the graphics but I guess my brain filled the rest in. Now a days, for anyone new coming into this series, expect retro graphics but I tell ya, the game play is worth it! Let your brain do the rest and pretend you're back in 1998. <3 -Ginger

If you did play just MM6-8, than you may be surprised how much this game is different. If you did play almost all of them, then you will more likely see that this is still valid Might and Magic game, with almost all important elements inside. Only obvious miss is the exploration feel, like when in MM3 you went trough initial maps several times, unlocking new tiles by learning swim/etc., and the whole map was accessible. In MM9 map is now much narrower, with clear borders. But the map designs itself balance this omission to considerable extent, I really loved some maps, the look and feel of them. Another minus point is a bit clumsy UI, with inventory in list form, and not supporting keyboard shortcuts as much, as previous games, also paper dolls in MM6+ were quite nice, this time the inventory is similar to MM3-5. From there on, I think rest of the game is pretty much core Might and Magic... huge exp+levels, open world, where you can go after dungeons where you will be instantly killed, rehash of classes similar to older games... I was a bit annoyed by the story, which is quite naive in the beginning, easily expecting the outcome since the start, but after that expected betrayal climax the game enters the waters of old Nordic(?) mythology, and while it's just the old stories retold in new setting, I really enjoyed that part. Also it's not as short, was I was afraid it will be. So overall the game left me in state of "enjoying it a lot". Definitely not as bad, as some reviews suggest. If those negative reviews were done on unpatched game, then I can understand it, but if somebody expected another MM6, he probably missed the idea of MM games, I think the differences between for example MM3 and MM6 are on similar level, like MM6 vs MM9.