I've played the Might and Magic series since my youth and this one by far is the best of them all. It has the best ai and the best difficulty selection of the entire series. It's the only one where you can specifically select the type of ai you want to use from expert to dunce. In other words they don't all have to be all alike and one can be more powerful than the others. You can mix and match. The selection of maps is excellent. So, you can play a quick game on a small map or a week long one on a largest map. This is by far my favorite one and I couldn't recommend anything else more except Master of Magic which is of course the best fantasy wargame ever made.