Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete

This is absolute gem of a game. Played for first time over 20 years ago and just recently bought another copy to play over again. The game have got great story, the music is awesome, even the hand drawn 2D graphic looks ok. The Heroes of Might and Magic saga and Might and Magic saga are very much intertwined and the story that runs throught the games is interesting and very well written. The only complain of mine is that 3DO did not follow on their planned story line and didn't add the "evil" mechanised city in Shadow of Death expansion and give us Flux instead. This is probably down to HoMM always being considered high fantasy game rather than fantasy/sci-fi mix as M&M. Anyway, overall game is great and well worth givin it a chance.

Along with all the other great reviews here is another. This game has Quality and Quantity when it comes to Replay ability and Visuals for it's time and now. I've yet to find a game that's as addicting and provides as much content as HoMM 3 does. For current lovers of the series who already know of In The Wake of Gods. I recommend checking out this Fan-Made expansion that's being made called Horn of The Abyss. ;) It's currently only in the Russian Language but, and English Translation is being Made. -- www(DOT)hota(DOT)acidcave(DOT)net Along with that check out VCMI WoG Recreated which is basically going to be WoG with even more content better support. An well you can check it out yourself. ;) - forum(DOT)vcmi(DOT)eu/portal(DOT)php

Play this game before you die.

I won't buy GoG HoMM 3 for the simple reason that I am a lucky owner of one of the original limited edition HoMM Collection box, however if you haven't got your hands on this game I can only recommend you to grab it right now. HoMM 3 is a timeless favorite when it comes to turn based strategy games. To this day no contender has been able to hold its own against this game, including its own successors HoMM 4 to 6. HoMM3 still remains THE masterpiece and you could say it has almost not aged: - the campaigns are lengthy and challenging - the many factions (8) are rather balanced and offer a variety of gameplays that can suit all player preferences (yet Rampart forever !) - the RPG elements (heroes class, talents and artifacts) are well thought and bring a good deal of strategic options (although I can think of 2-3 heroes talents and spells that are clearly better) - maps are well designed and shows a great deal of attention to lots of tiny details - the graphics are lush and still gorgeous so many years later - the soundtrack will send chills down your spine - turn by turn game. RTS will never beat this when it comes to carefully planning and executing your strategy I can't count the number of hours I spent and still spend in this game, and the maybe even greater number of hours I spent switching place if front of the computer and fighting over heated games in hot seat mode back in the time with family.

I have it in physic format just next to my desk. It was one of the first games I buyed for PC (Although I started in 2012 and this game is really old). I bought it with the 1st, the 2nd and the 4th one, and I also have the 5th one, so you must believe me when I say that the third one is the best one. That game also change my way of playing, I started to spend more hours playing HoM&M than any other type of game (hours and hours every summer), because it is really adictive, and you will always want to play another turn more. Now talking about the game itself... It is a turn-based strategy game, you can play with different civilizations, which are group of creatures that live in the same type of city. Every civilization has some similar creatures, like a cheap one, one that fights with magic, one that throws objects or shoot to the enemy, one that flies, a really exensive one that is really good, etc. In every map you can control some cities (and you can build structures on it), gather resources, capture resource-farms (gold mines, quarrys, wood-cutters...) and explore and fight all over the map. It is really awesome, and graphics are not a problem, because 2D-graphics never get old! It is graphically beautiful and sounds are good too. You will enjoy it, provided that you don't hate turn-based games.