Warlords Battlecry 3

I'm new to this series, so maybe that's an issue. But playing this game feels a bit like starting halfway through a fantasy movie and trying to figure out what is going on. And a straight to DVD fantasy movie, at that. The story makes little sense, and seems to throw a bunch of cliche plot points at you and hope you use your imagination. There is an attempt to establish some history but I don't know what they are talking about because there just isn't enough background. It's almost like they made the game first and tried to fit a story to it later. And another thing, it's reminds me a lot of Warcraft III. Warcraft III with a lot more units and races, but imitation story and game play. I have not gotten very far in this game and so this is just my first impression. It could change. One thing in its favor is the vastness of the races and units. But they seemed to not make any sense from a story perspective. The game play seems dated for 2004. The combat is weird. You can't see the enemy's health bar, so you have no idea if your guy or the bad guy is going to win a fight until one of them drops dead. You can get fancy weapons and upgrades for your hero but ultimately you just direct him to a target and a slug fest ensues. It doesn't "feel" like he has a +10 sword of awesome, and a wizardry cloak of magnificent (made up names). It's an awkward game, and I don't know a better way to say it. It could have been fun if I hadn't played Warcraft before. There could be more to it, but I can't tell from my first hour of play.

good game!

This game offers a huge variety of playable races, heroes, units, research, skills, spells, etc. Sadly most of it is completely useless and worthless. The whole design of this game is complete rubbish. The problem with the heroes is that it takes an absurd amount of time to get them leveled up to a point where they can actually do something useful. A merchant hero for example can lower the cost of everything you buy (units, building, research) but that cost reduction is gained in very small increments, less then 1% per level, which costs you both a skill point and a stat point, both of which you only get 1 per level. This is true for every hero and every skill. Then there is the fact that the vast majority of skills (and magic) are either plain useless or very situational. Worst still is that hero builds work in a rock-paper-scissors kinda way, where one build will simply overpower another and there is nothing you can do about it. Then there is the system where you can buy starting units, these units can be chosen from your racial pool, but you also have access to your personal pool of units you can save up at the end of a battle (if they survived). This sounds great but it turns out horrible. This gives players that have worked to level up their personal pool a huge advantage and can just completely curb stomp any opponent that hasn't done the same. A bigger problem is that you can't turn this feature off in the campaign games. Plus any unit from this pool that dies is lost forever, campaign battles are just no fun, because you have no hope of winning without a good pool of starting units, but if you lose even a single battle you lose all of that and have to fuck about in skirmish battles trying to build up your pool again. Another sad thing is that while this game have a huge variety of units, most look kinda terrible or just dumb. I really wanted to love this game but its just not a good game, its not even an average game, its just bad.

game has Ubisoft DRM that makes it nonfunctional.

I used to love this game when i was a kid. I bought it today so i can play it again but it does not open on my laptop. i have windows 11. it is supposed to work