Posted on: April 11, 2016

Ramevox

Jeux: 650 Avis: 68

The worst in the series.

Heroes of M&M 5 had a lot going for it, but ended up being an incoherent, sluggish and irritiating mess. It feels like Nival really wanted to make a great HoMM game, but the final result was and still is disappointing. The game had a rough production process. I remember seeing multiple different pre-gold versions that are drastically different from the final version that hit the shelves. And every single one of them seemed to be better than what we've finally got. The most glaring issue with this game is its engine. It's very slow. AI turns can take up to few minutes! Due to transition into full 3D, strategic maps are really small, narrowing the strategic gameplay to rushing the enemy's castle before it gets out of control. The city screens are awful. Nival decided to change them in the last moment and for some reason most customers liked impractical screens. After the first visit, nobody will use the actual screen to use the castle, everyone will click through bottom panel. They might me pretty on youtube videos, but they're absolutely pointless in the game. The 2nd problem with this game is the creativity bankruptcy. The new art direction might be alright if we're talking only about the color palette, but everything else is generic and lacks any kind of uniqueness. I remember the dev talking they want to "make factions more uniform", but the ending result is that almost all units are just so awfully generic and after 10 years I still have problems to tell their power difference based only on their appearance. It's even more glaring with add-ons' factions. Not to mention the overall setting and awful, cringe-inducing campaign. And lastly we have the bonkers AI. It's one thing to have the AI see a whole map (2) or to have it handicapped (4), but to let the AI cheat with 10k income and artifically winning vs creeps with no looses vs horde of devils in the first week is another thing. It's worse than Heroes 6's campaigns. You're better with 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

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Posted on: December 4, 2018

Rodrogha

Jeux: 84 Avis: 6

Good, but not exiting

Good game. Nice graphics, made with respect to the tradition of the series. But the tempo kills the pleasure. HOMM2 is swift and exiting. The gameplay process is the main thing. The 3rd game of the series is balanced and exiting too. But in HOMM5 the picture and new features were more important to the developer than the playing process, and game makes you tired too early. Owned it on CD when it was new and never will buy again.

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Posted on: September 28, 2019

TBzerg

Jeux: 9 Avis: 2

Easily the best heroes game, one error

I remember when this came out and how muched i loved it. i think ubisoft did a great job with the fifth game and their first heroes game. they kept the things that heroes 3 was good at. and saw the possiblities that the fourth game took forward. liike the skill system is awesome and it was great that they saw the possibility for it. and i think it heroes 4 that helped that idea for heroes 3 have no skill system. it's basicly chose this, u become better at what u piced. but in the fourth game you choose this and this and then u get this to. like there was combinations and heroes 5 did this to wich was great. when the last expansion came for the fith game then they added two diffrent uppgrades and i loved it. cause the moment you add more choice to the game the better it gets. the more choices the better the game. at least thats what i think. like it would be the best heroes game. but yes here is the thing that killed this game for me. U NEED TO WAIT 1-2 MINUTES A TURN. thats right, if u play an 8 player game with ai. it will take forever until you can do your turns again. this gets worse when you make your own map to. and worse throughtout the game. this was fine at first but youll get there when it just bouther u to much. and ive played this since realese so im just done with this game. i play heroes 4 and dream of a better version of it.

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Posted on: December 24, 2018

Ravenwoods

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Jeux: 244 Avis: 12

Fantastic!

I need to start by saying two things. One, I love HOMM 2 and 3 but I am one of the worst players of the either game. I do not mind 6 either (more on this later). And the second thing is, when I first played HOMM 5, back around the time it had recently came out, I remember hating it. No lip sync, the textures felt ugly, the camera control was hopeless, story seemed cheesy. I uninstalled very quickly. Fast forward to 12 years later, I am having such a blast with this game. Before I played any of these games, however, I played number 6. I still love the unit and animations of 6. Some of the units in 5 are same as 6 - but of course much lower res-, however, some are super experimental. Some of the designs are hit, some are misses for me. So, I tend to prefer HOMM 6 personally. Having said that, the way they approached to map building and story feels fresh and really awesome. It feels more like a grounded world rather than a playground; so not a boardgame board with pieces if you will. I really hope they try this type of approach, if ever, in the future they make another title. Another weird thing about this game is, I have played HOMM through to number 6 bar number 4, and this game's campaign at "easy" is easier than easy. Like, other HOMM game's easy actually kick my ass. I cannot even beat them! Having said that, I am in too early of the campaign, perhaps, it will get harder. Or, for the first time in HOMM game, I may have to increase the difficulty! *gasp* All in all, I'd say this is an awesome edition to the series. I would say it competes the number 1 spot for HOMM3 for me personally. I still like some of the design choices of number 3, so it still kind of remains number 1 for me haha. But then HOMM 5 cutting sooo close. If you are looking to dip your toes into the series, and you don't mind some old gfx (still look decent at highest setting with AA etc.) this is the perfect place to start! Highly recommend!

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Posted on: November 16, 2015

Dantuin

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Jeux: 30 Avis: 1

Could not understand all the hype.

Having never played Might and Magic but having many years of game play and a great love of RPG, I was willing to give this a try. I was all excited after reading the grand reviews and thought it was a good bet. I was very disappointed and could not even get past the first battle scenes. I found it very non intuitive and was not even liking the character that I supposed to be. For the price I guess I cant complain but I will not be playing this game. I really cant see what others see that is so good about this game. Really wanted to like it.

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