I played this on Mac in 1996 and it got me into adventure. It made me go back and play a lot of older games. None of them could recapture the feeling this game gave me however, except maybe Sanitarium, with its very uneasy, uncomfortable atmosphere. Playing as the cockroach there are thousands of seemingly insignificant ways to die! And that is one of this game's greatest strengths - it makes you FEEL like the cockroach. And while the FMV acting is really dodgy, the gameplay is perfect, and it's own motivation. This is a game with loads of soul. I never managed to get a hold of this game again as the PC port was more rare than the original Mac release, and when I found it I couldn't get it to work. So I'm buying this again from GOG!
With HoMM V, Ubisoft has yet again shown why we shouldn't be touching their mismanaged games. Sure, Nival did a decently good job with this installation of HoMM, it's quality slotting it in on the ladder between the third and the fourth. Unfortunately, Ubisoft didn't even wait one year before those corporate douche bags flipped the switch on the multiplayer servers. NOT. EVEN. A. YEAR. This series has since been killed off by a horrible 6th installation made by incompetent Bluehole Interactive. You can't even trust Ubisoft to stick with a good developer. That this IP belongs to Ubisoft is nothing short of a tragedy.
