Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete

My husband and I used to play it while we were dating, and we still play this versions the most.

Pretty much everyone knows how great this game is --- it's been out for a while and people still play it ---more than even the later versions --- to put it simply, it is a classic. So I'm just writing this to remind people that the replay/play possiblities are endless by using the very robust and easy to use map randomizer. There are enough options and so on to make amazingly excellent and epic skirmishes with a few clicks of a mouse. This is the real deal.

Heroes of Might and Magic I was a nice game but it lacked a lot and felt kind of empty. HoMM2 raised the bar significantly but HoMM3 made it even further. Excellent heroes features system, artifacts finally reflect body parts of the hero (in HoMM2 you could e.g. wear two helmets), extremely rich maps where there are no empty and irrelevant places - all of this makes the game a really wonderful strategy. I still often play it (usually with Heroes 3 HD mod - support for 1440x900 resolution rocks!) even though I have HoMM4 on a shelf and tried HoMM5. Maybe MMH6 will finally meet HoMM3's greatness but this game really survived the test of time. In HoMM3 you spend time on strategy, not on looking for resources hidden behind the mountains as in HoMM5... I recommend it to everyone looking for a great strategy, not necessarily with high system requirements.

This is simply a perfect game. And I'm not really the type of guy who's into those old school strategy rpg games. But this is simply so good that it would be madness not picking it up. It can offer you thousands of hours of fun. LAN games with friends is possible and you can even make your own maps with a really great and simple editor that anybody can use. Buy this game, seriously... 5/5 stars!!

This, along with Dungeon Keeper 2 and Nox, are the games I joined GOG for. It's a timeless classic. Though 2D, the beautifully drawn graphics with storybook-esque aesthetic have weathered the test of time beautifully. The strategic gameplay is sublime, particularly the hex grid tactical battles. It definitely invokes the one-more-turn syndrome. There is just nothing wrong with this game. I mean it, unless you expect it to be anything other than one of the best turn based strategies of all time, you will not be disappointed period. This is the cream of the crop.